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Commercial Litigation UK

  • 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.

  • June 09, 2025

    Getty's 'Day Of Reckoning' Begins As Stability AI Trial Opens

    Getty Images opened its landmark copyright infringement case against Stability AI Monday by accusing the technology company of building its generative AI model on millions of images with "complete indifference" for underlying intellectual property protections.

  • June 09, 2025

    Phoenix Group Denies Cutting Ex-SunLife CEO's Pay By £9M

    Insurance business Phoenix has denied short-changing the former chief executive of its SunLife subsidiary by £8.9 million ($12.1 million), telling a London court that his "extremely generous" £15.4 million payout was fair.

  • June 06, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    The past week in London has seen MGM and the owners of the "Addams Family" trademark sue a private equity firm, two Cambridge colleges file for injunctions against Pro-Palestine student protest groups and a former NBA player brings a claim against Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.

  • June 06, 2025

    Getty Case To Set Stage For AI Copyright Law

    The High Court is set to hear on Monday Getty's copyright claim over the use of its images to train Stability AI, a first-of-its-kind case that will set the stage for how the new technology intersects with intellectual property law.

  • June 06, 2025

    Top EU Court Urged To OK IP Rates In Czech Hotel Music Row

    An adviser to the European Union's top court has held that installing TVs and radios in empty hotel rooms constitutes a "communication to the public" that triggers royalty payments, contradicting a ruling by a Czech watchdog to fine a copyright management organization.

  • June 06, 2025

    DAZN Loses Appeal Over Coupang FIFA Broadcast Deal

    Streaming platform DAZN failed to convince the Court of Appeal on Friday to overturn a finding that it had entered into a contract to provide Coupang with a license to broadcast the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup in South Korea.

  • June 06, 2025

    Gov't To Face Judicial Review Over State Pension Redress

    The High Court has granted approval for a challenge to the government's decision on compensation for failure to inform women that their pension age had changed, a move activists have termed a "landmark moment."

  • June 06, 2025

    Network Rail Worker Wins 2nd Shot At Disability Bias Claim

    A Network Rail worker who struggled to navigate a complex tribunal process and missed significant filing deadlines won extra time on Friday to appeal after a tribunal acknowledged his mental health challenges and evolving standards for handling late appeals.

  • June 06, 2025

    NHS Contractor Faces Collapse After Failing To Find Buyer

    Ailing National Health Service contractor Totally PLC announced Friday that it intends to appoint administrators and has requested a suspension of trading of its shares after failing to find buyers or investors to rescue it from insolvency.

  • June 06, 2025

    Court Rebukes Lawyers For Fake AI-Generated Citations

    A London court referred a barrister and solicitor to their professional regulators on Friday for citing cases that do not exist and warned that freely available generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT are not capable of conducting reliable legal research.

  • June 06, 2025

    Darts Champ Banned As Director Over Unpaid £450K Tax Bill

    A former darts world champion has been banned from running companies for five years after his business failed to pay more than £450,000 ($610,000) in tax, the Insolvency Service has revealed.

  • June 06, 2025

    Condé Nast Denies Pic Editor's Race Discrimination Claims

    Magazine giant Condé Nast denied allegations of racial discrimination and harassment on Friday, arguing that complaints by a former Wired magazine photo editor of micromanagement and alleged aggressive behavior by security staff were not connected to her race or sex.

  • June 06, 2025

    Mental Health Moratorium Can't Stop Principal Debt Recovery

    A London appellate court ruled Friday that a man in a mental health crisis cannot prevent lenders from repossessing properties used to secure loans worth approximately £1.9 million (£2.6 million), concluding that the principal amounts were not affected by a moratorium on repayments.

  • June 06, 2025

    UK Floats Legislative Fix For Virgin Media Pensions Case

    The government has said it will push through legislation to deal with the legal fallout for pension trustees from a landmark Court of Appeal ruling in 2024.

  • June 05, 2025

    Trading Biz Can't Short Circuit Trial Against Former GC

    A London judge said Thursday that a trading services company must go to trial to prove that its former general counsel misused confidential information, citing a possibility that the business abused the lawyer-client relationship.

  • June 05, 2025

    Wetherspoons Harassed Manager Off Sick For Mental Health

    A Wetherspoons manager won his discrimination and harassment claims against the pub Thursday, with an employment tribunal ruling that he was subject to punishment at work due to his mental health conditions.

  • June 05, 2025

    Antitrust Silk To Helm Tribunal's New Pro Bono Scheme

    A Brick Court Chambers antitrust silk will help to run the Competition Appeal Tribunal's new pro bono scheme, offering free legal help to litigants in person, legal charity Advocate said Thursday.

  • June 05, 2025

    Former Exec Must Pay £450K From Pension To Settle Debt

    A London judge has ruled a company can access the pension fund of a fired managing director to cover £450,000 ($612,000) he was supposed to pay to settle claims that he poached clients.

Expert Analysis

  • Emerging Trends From A Busy Climate Litigation Year

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    Although many environmental cases brought in the U.K. were unsuccessful in 2023, they arguably clarified several relevant issues, such as climate rights, director and trustee obligations, and the extent to which claimants can hold the government accountable, illustrating what 2024 may have in store for climate litigation, say Simon Bishop and Patrick Kenny at Hausfeld.

  • Key 2024 Arbitration Trends In A Changing World

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    As key sectors such as ESG and the global mining and commodities market will continue to generate more arbitration in 2024, procedural developments in arbitral law will both guide future arbitration proceedings and provide helpful lessons on confidentiality, disclosure and professional duty, say Louise Woods and Elena Guillet at V&E.

  • 2024 Will Be A Busy Year For Generative AI And IP Issues

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    In light of increased litigation and policy proposals on balancing intellectual property rights and artificial intelligence innovation, 2024 is shaping up to be full of fast-moving developments that will have significant implications for AI tool developers, users of such tools and rights holders, say lawyers at Mishcon de Reya.

  • Regulating Digital Platforms: What's Changing In EU And UK

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    Lawyers at Mayer Brown assess the status of recently enacted EU and U.K. antitrust regulation governing gatekeeper platforms, noting that the effects are already being felt, and that companies will need to avoid anti-competitive self-preferencing and ensure a higher degree of interoperability than has been required to date.

  • Dyson Decision Highlights Post-Brexit Forum Challenges

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    The High Court's recent decision in Limbu v. Dyson, barring the advancement of group supply chain claims against Dyson subsidiaries in the U.K. and Malaysia, suggests that, following Brexit, claims concerning events abroad may less frequently proceed to trial in England, say lawyers at Debevoise.

  • 9 Takeaways From The UPC's First 6 Months In Session

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    Six months after its opening, the Unified Patent Court has established itself as an appealing jurisdiction, with its far territorial reach, short filing deadlines and extremely quick issuance of preliminary injunctions showing that it is well-prepared to provide for rapid legal clarity, says Antje Brambrink at Finnegan.

  • How Boards Can Mitigate Privacy, Cybersecurity And AI Risks

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    In 2023, data privacy, cybersecurity and AI persist as prominent C-suite concerns as regulators stepped up enforcement, and organizations must develop a plan for handling these risks, in particular those with a global footprint, say lawyers at Latham.

  • The Year In FRAND: What To Know Heading Into 2024

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    In 2023, there were eight significant developments concerning the fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory patent licensing regime that undergirds technical standardization, say Tom Millikan and Kevin Zeck at Perkins Coie.

  • The Outlook For UK Restructuring Plans At Home And Abroad

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    The U.K. continues to be a center for large-cap, cross-border restructurings, though its competitive edge over the EU in this regard may narrow, while small and medium-sized enterprises are already likely to avoid costly formal processes by reaching out to their secured lenders for restructuring solutions, say Paul Keddie and Timothy Bromley-White at Macfarlanes.

  • Foreign Assets Ruling Suggests New Tax Avoidance Approach

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    The U.K. Supreme Court's recent ruling in His Majesty's Revenue & Customs v. Fisher, which found that the scope of the transfer of foreign assets is narrow, highlights that the days of rampant tax avoidance have been left behind, and that the need for wide-ranging and uncertain tax legislation is lessening, says James Austen at Collyer Bristow.

  • Class Action-Style Claims Are On The Horizon In 2024

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    Following the implementation of an EU directive enabling consumers to bring actions for collective redress, 2024 will likely see the first serious swathe of class action-style cases in Europe, particularly in areas such as cyber exposures, ESG and product liability, says Henning Schaloske at Clyde & Co.

  • Cos. Must Monitor Sanctions Regime As Law Remains Unclear

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    While recent U.K. government guidance and an English High Court's decision in Litasco v. Der Mond Oil, finding that a company is sanctioned when a designated individual is exercising control over it, both address sanctions control issues, disarray in the law remains, highlighting that practitioners should keep reviewing their exposure to the sanctions regime, say lawyers at K&L Gates.

  • The Top 7 Global ESG Litigation Trends In 2023

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    To date, ESG litigation across the world can largely be divided into seven forms, but these patterns will continue developing, including a rise in cases against private and state actors, a more complex regulatory environment affecting multinational companies, and an increase in nongovernmental organization activity, say Sophie Lamb and Aleksandra Dulska at Latham.

  • Proposed Amendment Would Transform UK Collective Actions

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    If the recently proposed amendment to the Digital Markets Bill is enacted, the U.K.'s collective action landscape will undergo a seismic change that will likely have significant consequences for consumer-facing businesses, say lawyers at Linklaters.

  • EU GDPR Ruling Reiterates Relative Nature Of 'Personal Data'

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    The Court of Justice of the European Union recently confirmed in Gesamtverband v. Scania that vehicle identification number data can be processed under the General Data Protection Regulation, illustrating that the same dataset may be considered "personal data" for one party, but not another, which suggests a less expansive definition of the term, say lawyers at Van Bael.

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