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Commercial Litigation UK

  • June 10, 2025

    Yukos Says $5B Russia Award Suit Must Proceed

    Yukos Oil Co.'s financing arm has told a D.C. federal court that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision rejecting the Ninth Circuit's outlier interpretation of a jurisdictional question moots Russia's request that the court pause enforcement of a $5 billion arbitral award against the country.

  • June 10, 2025

    Innsworth Seeks Review Of £200M Mastercard Settlement Split

    Litigation funder Innsworth announced Tuesday it was launching a High Court challenge to how the Competition Appeal Tribunal decided to distribute a £200 million ($270 million) settlement reached between Mastercard and Walter Merricks to end litigation over credit card fees.

  • June 10, 2025

    Virgin Atlantic Beats Flight Attendant's Disability Bias Claims

    An employment tribunal has tossed a flight attendant's suite of disability discrimination and harassment claims against Virgin Atlantic Airways, finding no evidence that her rare genetic condition caused her day-to-day issues.

  • June 10, 2025

    CMS Faces £10M Negligence Claim Over Investec Debt Advice

    A property developer has alleged that law firm CMS owes him at least £10 million ($14 million) for negligent advice concerning a debt-restructuring plan that he says he never would have agreed to if he had been given proper warning.

  • June 10, 2025

    Mass Litigation Could Cost UK Economy £18B, Report Warns

    A think tank has called on U.K. policymakers to urgently regulate the litigation funding sector, publishing a report Tuesday warning that a trend of increasing group litigation could eventually cost the British economy up to £18 billion ($24.3 billion).

  • June 10, 2025

    DHL British Unit On Hook For £3M In Duties, Court Says

    A tax tribunal did not err when it upheld HM Revenue & Custom's decision to deny about £3 million ($4 million) in duty relief to cargo aircraft operated by DHL's British affiliate, a U.K. court said, dismissing the company's appeal.

  • June 10, 2025

    Gambling Watchdog Faces Challenge To £70M Lottery Subsidy

    Publishing group Northern & Shell PLC has asked a London appeals tribunal to bin a decision by Britain's gambling regulator to give Camelot UK Lotteries Ltd. more than £70 million ($94 million) to help with marketing and promoting the National Lottery.

  • June 10, 2025

    Greensill Says He Was Trapped In Katerra Restructuring Deal

    Lex Greensill said Tuesday that he was "between a rock and a hard place" in a restructuring deal involving his eponymous firm and SoftBank, a Japanese investment company, as the former banker gave evidence in a $440 million trial in London of a claim brought by a collapsed Credit Suisse fund.

  • June 10, 2025

    IBM Seeks £1.6M After Winning Reverse-Engineering Claim

    IBM has said that LzLabs must pay over £1.6 million ($2.2 million) in damages for reverse-engineering its software products in order to build a rival platform, adding to the Swiss company's £20 million bill.

  • June 10, 2025

    Apple, Sony Fight Class Reps Over New Legal Funding Deals

    Apple, Visa, Mastercard and Sony told the Court of Appeal Tuesday that funding agreements driving multiple competition class action claims in the U.K. are unlawful and unenforceable.

  • June 10, 2025

    Amazon Whistleblower Gets Second Shot At Unfair Firing Claim

    A disabled Amazon whistleblower won a second shot at his unfair dismissal claim against the tech giant on Tuesday, after an appellate judge agreed that a lower tribunal jumped the gun by tossing his case.

  • June 10, 2025

    Gay Mexican Chef Harassed With Deportation Threats

    An employment tribunal has ruled that a British restaurant owner harassed a gay Mexican chef by stereotyping him as unreliable and threatening to tell the Home Office that he was sexually harassing colleagues.

  • June 10, 2025

    J&J Spinoff Had 'Shoddy' Process But Didn't Discriminate

    Johnson & Johnson spinoff Kenvue did not discriminate against a Black manager when it overlooked him for a promotion, even though the process was a "sham," a tribunal said in a ruling released Tuesday.

  • June 10, 2025

    Lawyer Loses Bid To Ax 'Greedy' Label In $11B Ruling

    A London appeals court refused Tuesday a solicitor's bid to chuck references to his being "greedy" and "corrupt" in a judgment over a fraudulent $11 billion arbitration award against Nigeria, ruling that the lower court did not violate his right to a fair trial.

  • June 10, 2025

    Gene-Editing Biotech Says Rivals Infringed CRISPR Patent

    A Korean biotech company has accused several companies of infringing its CRISPR gene-editing patent in the U.K., telling a London court that they must enter a license to use the technology.

  • June 10, 2025

    Cosmetics Studios Sue Beazley Over COVID Business Losses

    Almost 70 cosmetics clinics, including tattoo studios and a flotation therapy center, have sued two Lloyd's of London syndicates managed by Beazley for losses they claimed to have incurred after temporarily closing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • June 10, 2025

    PPE Agent Keeps Sheridans Case Alive After Fraud Settlement

    A medical supply agent is continuing its negligence case against London law firm Sheridans, despite settling a linked $10.8 million fraud claim from a British company that accused it of taking secret commissions on COVID-19 pandemic protection equipment orders.

  • June 09, 2025

    2nd Circ. Affirms Dechert's Victory Over Hacking Suit

    The Second Circuit on Monday refused to revive a North Carolina trade executive's lawsuit alleging hacking by a private investigator on Dechert LLP's behalf, ruling in a nonprecedential opinion that a district judge's failure to review disputed portions of a magistrate judge's recommendation to dismiss the suit was ultimately harmless.

  • June 09, 2025

    Litigation-Funding Dispute Resumes Amid Uncertain Future

    Sony and Apple will challenge the validity of widely used litigation-financing agreements at the Court of Appeal on Tuesday against the backdrop of an influential report calling for legislation to urgently reverse a landmark ruling that shook the funding industry.

  • June 09, 2025

    Media Biz Chair Who Misled Investors Told To Buy Out Shares

    The chairman of a media company has been ordered to buy out a minority shareholder after a London appeals court said Monday that he had deliberately deceived investors about his attempts to work towards selling the company.

  • June 09, 2025

    Physiotherapist Wins £20K After Boss Slashed Working Hours

    A physiotherapist has won £20,000 ($27,100) after convincing a tribunal that his former company consistently failed to meet his contractual entitlement to 37.5 hours of paid work per week.

  • June 09, 2025

    Lex Greensill Claims SoftBank Hid Deal With 'Code Of Silence'

    Lex Greensill testified in a $440 million London trial Monday that SoftBank, a Japanese investment company, had designed a restructuring agreement involving his firm to avoid putting potential losses on its accounts in his first public appearance since his eponymous firm's collapse.

  • June 09, 2025

    Investment Biz CEO Hit For £2.8M Over Exec's Drinks Loan

    A former executive at a U.S. subsidiary of a London investment fund is suing the firm and its founder for about $3 million after they allegedly failed to repay a short-term loan to cover the costs of the company's investment in a drinks company.

  • June 09, 2025

    Ex-Commerzbank Analyst Denies Faking Sex Assault Claims

    A former Commerzbank analyst on Monday fought claims that he lied to a court by making false sexual assault allegations in his failed harassment case against the bank, telling a London court he was being truthful.

  • June 09, 2025

    Daily Mail Defeats Green Industrialist's Abusive GDPR Claim

    The publisher of the Dail Mail newspaper has defeated a green energy tycoon's data protection claim after a court ruled on Monday that it was "unnecessary and oppressive" to pursue the allegation months after launching an unsuccessful libel claim over the same story.

Expert Analysis

  • How Law Firms Can Handle Challenges Of Mass Claims

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    With a wave of volume litigation possibly about to hit the U.K. courts, firms developing mass claim practices should ensure they heed the Solicitors Regulation Authority's May warning and adopt strategies to ensure regulatory compliance and fair client representation, says Claire Van der Zant at Shieldpay.

  • Potential EPO Reproducibility Ruling May Affect IP Strategies

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    A potential European Patent Office decision in referral G1/23, concerning the reproducibility criteria for patenting commercial products, may affect how disclosures are assessed as prior art and could influence how companies weigh protecting innovations as trade secrets versus patents, says Michael Stott at Mathys & Squire.

  • Insurance Ruling Stresses High Hurdle To Fix Policy Wording

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    In Project Angel v. Axis, the Court of Appeal recently refused to rewrite the exclusion clause of an insurance policy, reminding parties in the warranty and indemnity market to carefully word clauses, as there is a high threshold before courts will intervene to amend policies, say Joseph Moore and Laura McCann at Travers Smith.

  • Taking Stock Of Changes UK Economic Crime Act Will Bring

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    With more than six months since the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act's enactment, it is time to look at the steps organizations can take to prepare for imminent changes, including the new failure to prevent fraud offense and extensions to Companies House authority, say lawyers at Mayer Brown.

  • Sanctions Ruling Opens Door For Enforcer To Clear Up Rules

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    In Vneshprombank v. Bedzhamov, the High Court recently argued against a broader interpretation of the test on reasonable suspicion for asset freezes, offering the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation an opportunity to clarify when freezes should be applied and respond to judicial criticism of its guidance on financial sanctions, says Tasha Benkhadra at Corker Binning.

  • How Gov't Response Addresses Investment Act Concerns

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    The government’s recently published response to a call for evidence on the National Security and Investment Act is largely appropriate to stakeholder concerns raised and demonstrates in its five areas of focus that it is willing to respond to live issues, say lawyers at Watson Farley.

  • UPC Appeal Ruling Clarifies Language Change Framework

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    In 10x Genomics v. Curio Bioscience, the Unified Patent Court recently allowed proceedings to be conducted in English, rather than German, shedding light on the framework on UPC language change applications and hopefully helping prevent future disputes, say Conor McLaughlin and Nina O'Sullivan at Mishcon de Reya.

  • How Generative AI Can Enhance Disclosure Review Processes

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    As recent developments show that implementing artificial intelligence in legal processes remains a critical challenge, the disclosure process — one of the most document-intensive legal exercises — presents itself as a prime use-case, illustrating how generative AI can supplement traditional technology-assisted review, say lawyers at Macfarlanes.

  • Decoding Arbitral Disputes: The Benefits Of Non-EU Venues

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    In Spain v. Triodos, a Swedish appeal court recently annulled an intra-EU investment treaty award, reinforcing a growing trend in the bloc against enforcing such awards, and highlighting the advantages of initiating enforcement proceedings in common law jurisdictions, such as the U.K., says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn Square.

  • Experian Ruling Helps Cos. Navigate GDPR Transparency

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    In Information Commissioner v. Experian, the Upper Tribunal recently reaffirmed the lawfulness of the company's marketing practices, providing guidance that will assist organizations in complying with the GDPR’s transparency obligations, say lawyers at Jenner & Block.

  • Salvaging The Investor-State Arbitration System's Legitimacy

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    Recent developments in Europe and Ecuador highlight the vulnerability of the investor-state arbitration framework, but arbitrators can avert a crisis by relying on a poorly understood doctrine of fairness and equity, rather than law, to resolve the disputes before them, says Phillip Euell at Diaz Reus.

  • UK Trademark Law May Further Diverge From EU Standards

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    The recently enacted Retained EU Law Act, which removes the principle of EU law supremacy, offers a path for U.K. trademark law to distance itself even further from EU precedent — beyond the existing differences between the two trademark examination processes, say David Kemp and Michael Shaw at Marks & Clerk.

  • Clarity Is Central Theme In FCA's Greenwashing Guidance

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    Recent Financial Conduct Authority guidance for complying with the U.K. regulator's anti-greenwashing rule sends an overarching message that sustainability claims must be clear, accurate and capable of being substantiated, say lawyers at Cadwalader.

  • How Clinical Trials Affect Patentability In US And Europe

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    A comparison of recent U.S. and European patent decisions — concerning the effect of disclosures in clinical trials on the patentability of products — offers guidance on good practice for companies dealing with public use issues and prior art documents in these commercially important jurisdictions, say lawyers at Finnegan.

  • ECHR Ruling May Pave Path For A UK Climate Damage Tort

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    In light of case law on the interaction between human rights law and common law, the European Court of Human Rights' recent ruling in KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland, finding the country at fault for failures to tackle global warming, could tip the scales toward extending English tort law to cover climate change-related losses, say lawyers at Cleary.

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