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June 19, 2025
Pro Bono Plan Aims To Make CAT Claims Accessible To All
It might come as a surprise that the U.K.'s venue for high-stakes class actions against some of the world's largest companies is planning a new pro bono scheme. But the Brick Court Chambers antitrust silk running the program told Law360 that she sees a real chance to help smaller players get a fair shot at enforcing their rights under a complex area of law.
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June 19, 2025
HMRC Cleared Of Forging Warrant To Seize £80M Mansion
A businessman has lost his case that claimed the U.K. tax authority forged a warrant used to seize his £80 million ($107 million) mansion over fraud and money laundering charges, with a London court concluding that the warrant was genuine.
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June 19, 2025
Chinese National's Job Rejection Tied To Security Clearance
A Chinese national has lost her claim of race discrimination against a cyber-security firm, with the Employment Tribunal saying the company was within its rights to discontinue her job application because she would be unlikely to receive security clearance.
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June 19, 2025
Trafigura Partly Blocks Changes To Gupta's $600M Defense
Metals trader Prateek Gupta was partly blocked Thursday from making wholesale changes to his defense to a fraud claim worth more than $600 million from Trafigura by a judge who nevertheless permitted alterations that had been agreed and those that would not require disclosure.
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June 19, 2025
AmTrust Wins Disclosure Appeal In £56M Claim-Funding Clash
A London appeals court said Thursday that AmTrust should be able to see another insurer's communications with two law firms amid a £56 million ($75 million) battle over who should cover the costs of a failed litigation-funding scheme.
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June 19, 2025
Royal Mail Must Rehire Postman Fired Over Parking Row
A tribunal has ordered Royal Mail to rehire a postman and pay him £66,000 ($88,600) after it unfairly sacked him over what bosses felt was "violent" behavior during a parking dispute with a colleague.
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June 19, 2025
Pension Trust Denies BCLP's £256K Office Damage Claim
A pension fund trustee company that owns a Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP office has hit back at claims it caused the firm to lose £256,000 ($344,000) by negligently handling repairs after the building was damaged by strong wind.
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June 19, 2025
Google Suffers Setback In Bid To Overturn €4B Antitrust Fine
Google suffered a blow in its bid to overturn to a €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) antitrust fine on Thursday when an adviser to Europe's top court said it had failed to present proper legal grounds to challenge the penalty for unlawful market abuse using its mobile phone operating system.
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June 18, 2025
Jurisdiction Up First In $1B Ukraine Bank Nationalization Case
A more than $1 billion claim asserted against Ukraine by a Luxembourg-based banking group with ties to a Russian oligarch over the nationalization of Sense Bank will have to overcome jurisdictional hurdles before damages will be considered, an international tribunal has ruled.
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June 18, 2025
£20M Buybacks Weren't Mainly For Tax Benefit, UK Court Says
Obtaining a tax advantage wasn't the main purpose of two businessmen arranging £20 million ($26.8 million) in share buybacks, despite that being the effect, so they aren't liable for an anti-avoidance action by HM Revenue & Customs, the U.K. Upper Tribunal said in overturning a lower court's ruling.
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June 18, 2025
William Hill Must Pay £68K To Exec Fired For Alleged Assault
An employment tribunal has ordered William Hill to pay £68,065 ($91,547) to an advertising executive it unfairly fired over a sexual harassment complaint, ruling that the betting giant ignored evidence showing he never put his fingers in a colleague's mouth.
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June 18, 2025
Intesa Sanpaolo Staffer Loses Bid For Reinstatement
An employee on secondment in London from Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo has lost his bid to be reinstated until his hearing for unfair dismissal, with an employment tribunal finding he is unlikely to win his substantive case and therefore not entitled to reinstatement in the interim.
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June 18, 2025
PE Firm Says Forfeiting Tycoon's €1.5M Investment Was Valid
A private equity firm has denied wrongfully forfeiting car tycoon Peter Waddell's €1.5 million ($1.7 million) investment in the company and alleged the move was "entirely reasonable," given he had failed to meet a request for money as part of the funding deal.
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June 18, 2025
Tesco Fights Ruling On Workers' Equal Pay Claim
Retail giant Tesco urged the Employment Appeal Tribunal to overturn findings in an ongoing equal pay-claim brought against it by female employees, saying a lower tribunal was wrong to use generic training materials and job descriptions in assessing whether certain roles are of equal value.
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June 18, 2025
Artist Defends 'Fishrot' Apology Spoof As Free Expression
An Icelandic artist urged a London appellate judge Wednesday to give him a chance to override a decision that he could not successfully defend against a claim from the country's largest seafood company alleging he created a spoof website to publish a false apology over a bribery scandal.
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June 18, 2025
EU Court Affirms Decision To Publicize Pesticide Ingredients
An agrochemical company lost its appeal at a European court on Wednesday to block the European Food Safety Authority from releasing a confidential list of ingredients in one of its pesticides in the interest of public knowledge.
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June 18, 2025
Sellafield Denies Breach In £18M Nuclear Diving Contract Case
A British nuclear site management company has hit back at claims that it breached procurement rules when it rejected a bid from a U.S. business for an £18 million ($24 million) contract for diving services, denying that it breached transparency requirements.
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June 18, 2025
US Biotech Biz Says Rival's Gene Editing Patent Is Invalid
A U.S. biotech company and two manufacturers have denied they infringed a South Korean rival's gene-editing patent, urging a London court to declare the patent invalid.
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June 17, 2025
Ex-Triton Exec Beats Post-Brexit Appeal To Nix Bias Claim
An appellate tribunal has upheld a ruling that Brexit did not curtail the ability of a former Triton Partners investment adviser to bring discrimination claims against the Swedish private equity firm's executives, allowing him to pursue his claim in the U.K.
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June 17, 2025
Ex-Steel Exec Fights £574K Debt, Claims Unlawful Firing
The former managing director of a British steel supplier has denied that he had to pay back £574,237 ($775,471) as part of a "transaction bonus," asking a London judge to reinstate him even as he claimed the firm ignored his bullying concerns.
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June 17, 2025
EasyGroup Appeals TM Loss To 'Easy Live' Auction Co.
U.K. venture capital conglomerate easyGroup on Tuesday urged a London appellate court to overturn the rejection of its trademark infringement and revocation case against an online auction services provider, arguing a lower court judge had wrongly disregarded evidence of confusion among consumers.
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June 17, 2025
Ex-Georgian PM Says Credit Suisse Ignored £600M Fraud
Georgia's former prime minister told a U.K. appeals court Tuesday that Credit Suisse Life cannot skirt liability for his losses from an employee's fraud scheme, saying the life insurer had obligations to policyholders to ensure their assets were being managed responsibly.
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June 17, 2025
Geradin Partners Hires Top Lawyers For German Expansion
Geradin Partners said Tuesday that it has hired five lawyers from the law firms Hausfeld and Osborne Clarke as it prepares to launch in Germany later this year.
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June 17, 2025
Hat Co. Claims Rival's Dupes Caused 'Greenwashing' Gripe
A hat brand has accused a rival of selling counterfeit headgear of an inferior quality and hurting its environmentally friendly brand, as consumers were leaving negative reviews accusing it of "greenwashing."
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June 17, 2025
Ackroyd Denies A Duty To Warn On Failed £4.5M Property Deal
Ackroyd Legal has denied failing to warn a Qatari executive and his sister about a property deal that they said cost them £4.5 million ($6.1 million), arguing that it was not obliged to advise them on the "prudency" of the transaction.
Expert Analysis
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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EU Paper Urges Data Protection And Competition Law Unity
A recent European Data Protection Board position paper calls for closer cooperation among data protection and competition authorities, and provides valuable insight for businesses seeking to ensure compliance across an increasingly complex regulatory landscape, say lawyers at Paul Weiss.
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Key Points From Gov't Consultation On Copyright And AI
The U.K. government’s current consultation on mitigating artificial intelligence input and output risks to copyright holders seeks to facilitate copyright holders in bringing actions against AI developers that make unauthorized use of protected works and mandate consistent labeling of AI-generated content, say lawyers at Deloitte.
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Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Equal Rights Limit State Immunity
The Court of Appeal of England and Wales' recent determination that Spain’s London embassy could not dodge a former U.K.-based employee’s discrimination claims by invoking sovereign immunity reaffirms its position that employment and human rights should come before the privileges of foreign powers, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray’s Inn.
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What To Expect As CAT Considers Mastercard Settlement
It is expected that the Competition Appeal Tribunal will closely scrutinize the proposed collective settlement in Merricks v. Mastercard, including the role of the case’s litigation funder, as the CAT's past approach to such cases shows it does not treat the process as a rubber stamp exercise, say lawyers at BCLP.
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Managing Transatlantic Antitrust Investigations And Litigation
As transatlantic competition regulators cooperate more closely and European antitrust investigations increasingly spark follow-up civil suits in the U.S., companies must understand how to simultaneously juggle high-stakes multigovernment investigations and manage the risks of expensive new claims across jurisdictions, say lawyers at Paul Weiss.
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What 2025 Holds For UK, EU Restructuring And Insolvency
European Union and U.K. restructuring developments in 2024, with a new era of director accountability, the use of cramdown tools and the emergence of aggressive liability management exercises, mean greater consideration of creditors' interests and earlier engagement in restructuring discussions can be expected this year, says Inga West at Ashurst.
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How GCs Can Protect Cos. From Geopolitical Headwinds
Geopolitical uncertainty is perceived by corporate leaders as the biggest short-term threat to global business, but many of the potential crises are navigable if general counsel focus on what is being said about a company and what the company is doing, says Juliet Young at Schillings.
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What BT Ruling Will Mean For UK Class Actions
The Competition Appeal Tribunal’s recent dismissal of a £1.3 billion mass consumer claim against BT, the first trial decision for a U.K. collective action, reminds claimants and funders of the high bar for establishing an abuse, and provides valuable insight into how pending mass consumer cases may be resolved, say lawyers at Ashurst.
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Exam Board Ruling Expands Scope Of 'Newcomer Injunctions'
The High Court's recent decision granting AQA Education a digital "newcomer injunction" prevents anonymous internet users from distributing unlawfully obtained exam materials, and extends the scope of such injunctions from issues of trespass to the protection of confidential information, say lawyers at Fieldfisher.
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UK Lawyers Can Access Broad US Discovery To Win Cases
Given its breadth, U.S. discovery can be a powerful tool in litigation in the U.K. and other jurisdictions outside the U.S., and a survey of recent cases indicates that discovery requests made in the U.S. are likely to be granted — with many applications even proceeding without contest, say lawyers at Miller & Chevalier.
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Russian Bankruptcy Ruling Shows Importance Of Jurisdiction
The U.K. Supreme Court's recent decision not to assist a Russian receiver in Kireeva v. Bedzhamov will be of particular interest in cross-border insolvency proceedings, where attention must be paid to assets outside the jurisdiction, and to creditors, who must consider carefully where to apply for a bankruptcy order, say lawyers at McDermott.
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Considering The Status Of The US Doctrine Of Patent Misuse
A recent Ninth Circuit decision and a U.K. Court of Appeal decision demonstrate the impact that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 decision in Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment has had on the principle that post-patent-expiration royalty payments amount to patent misuse, not only in the U.S. but in English courts as well, say attorneys at Covington.
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Decoding Arbitral Disputes: UK Awards Versus EU Judgments
The Court of Appeal of England and Wales' recent refusal to enforce a €855 million Spanish judgment inconsistent with earlier binding arbitral awards in England provides crucial guidance for practitioners navigating the complexities of cross-border disputes involving arbitration agreements and sovereign states, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.
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Sky Trademark Ruling Suggests Strategy Tips For Brands
Following the U.K. Supreme Court's SkyKick v. Sky trademark ruling, brand owners should strike a balance between a specification broad enough to meet business requirements but not so broad as to invite unnecessary counterattacks for bad faith, says Josh Charalambous at RPC.