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Commercial Litigation UK

  • 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.

  • June 05, 2025

    Axiom Staffer Wins Claim Over Dismissals Amid Firm Collapse

    A former employee of Axiom Ince Ltd. has won a tribunal claim over the collapsed firm's failure to carry out a redundancy consultation before mass dismissals, with a judge granting her an unspecified monetary award.

  • June 05, 2025

    BHP Tries To Block Criminal Contempt Bid In £36B Dam Case

    BHP urged a London judge on Thursday to throw out contempt proceedings that it has called "extraordinary" in a £36 billion ($50 billion) case over Brazil's worst environmental disaster, arguing that it would relitigate issues that had already been resolved.

  • June 05, 2025

    Credit Suisse Says Greensill Deals Left $440M Debt Unpaid

    Greensill Capital coordinated with SoftBank to enter into "improper" transactions which caused Credit Suisse investors to lose $440 million in debt, a lawyer for a sub-fund for the collapsed Swiss bank told the first day of trial Thursday.

  • June 05, 2025

    Bayer Contests Generics' Loss Claims In Xarelto Patent Fight

    Bayer has accused several generic-drug makers of overstating the profits they lost when a judge in London told them to stop selling their own versions of blood thinner Xarelto to avoid infringing a patent that the courts later invalidated.

  • June 05, 2025

    Liverpool Defends Rejection Of Lime's Bid For E-Bike Contract

    Liverpool City Council has denied failing to give the Lime hire bike operator a fair chance to compete for a contract to provide electric scooters and bikes in the local authority's area, adding that it had lawfully considered submissions by winning bidder Bolt.

  • June 05, 2025

    TUI Denies Liability For Holidaymakers' Cape Verde Sickness

    Package holiday company TUI has denied responsibility for illnesses contracted by more than 100 vacationers at a hotel in Cape Verde, telling a London court that the travelers might have become ill from going outside the resort.

  • June 05, 2025

    UK Insurers Abusing Dishonesty Defense, Legal Body Warns

    Insurers are using allegations of fraud in a "scattergun" approach in defending against personal injury claims, a legal trade body warned Thursday.

  • June 05, 2025

    Oligarch Can't Appeal Tossed $14B Asset-Stripping Claim

    Imprisoned oligarch Ziyavudin Magomedov cannot challenge a decision to dismiss his $14 billion claim against Transneft, Rostatom, a private equity firm and other entities over an alleged Russian state-led conspiracy to strip his assets in two major port operators, a London appeals court has ordered.

  • June 05, 2025

    JPMorgan Blocks VTB's Russian Case Over Frozen $156M

    JPMorgan won its fight on Thursday to block VTB Bank from bringing a $156 million case in Russia over frozen funds, as a London court ruled that the Russian lender's claims were "vexatious and oppressive."

  • June 04, 2025

    Croatia Says $236M Intra-EU Award Can't Be Enforced

    Croatia has urged a D.C. federal court not to enforce a $236 million arbitral award issued to a Hungarian energy company, saying it is unenforceable despite a D.C. Circuit decision last year leaving the door open for federal courts to enforce intra-European Union awards.

  • June 04, 2025

    Spain Pays $27M Renewable Energy Incentive Scheme Award

    In what appears to be a first of its kind development, Spain has paid a €23.5 million ($26.8 million) arbitral award owed to Blasket Renewable Investments LLC after the country dialed back a series of economic incentives aimed at encouraging renewable energy projects.

  • June 04, 2025

    DWF Argues Privacy Claim A Litigation Ploy At Trial

    DWF Law LLP argued at trial Wednesday that a claim by three people that the law firm unlawfully shared their health data was only brought to "secure an advantage" for their lawyers in separate proceedings against insurers.

  • June 04, 2025

    VTB Bank Unit Beats 'Thinnest Possible' Corporate Raid Case

    A British unit of Russian state-owned VTB Bank has beaten claims in a London court that it was part of a Kremlin-approved corporate raid, with a judge ruling that a steel businessman's evidence against the lender was "the thinnest possible gruel."

  • June 04, 2025

    SFO Reveals £21M Spent On Lawyers In ENRC Court Battles

    The Serious Fraud Office has spent more than £21 million ($28 million) on lawyers fighting its legal battle against Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. over the prosecutor's alleged abuse of its authority during an ill-fated criminal probe of the mining giant.

  • June 04, 2025

    Billionaire Defends Asset Freeze Amid $415M Fraud Case

    Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego on Wednesday told a London appeals court Wednesday that a man who allegedly defrauded him out of more than $415 million was "grasping at straws" in an attempt to escape an asset-freezing order. 

  • June 04, 2025

    Ex-Law Firm Director Denies Misusing Loan Amid Insolvency

    A former director of defunct law firm One Legal Services Ltd. denied claims on Wednesday that he had unlawfully paid himself up to £101,000 ($88,300) in director's loans after the firm collapsed, saying he acted on the advice of an administrator.

  • June 04, 2025

    UK Mortgage 'Coercion' Ruling Raises Bank Liability Risk

    A decision by the U.K. Supreme Court on Wednesday could substantially increase the liability on mortgage lenders to undertake checks on their customers, raising implications for repossessions in a move that is likely to require new rules from the Financial Conduct Authority, according to lawyers.

  • June 04, 2025

    Consultancy Sues Ex-Director For £3.6M Over Client Poaching

    A consulting firm has accused its former director of causing it to lose out on £3.6 million ($4.8 million) in revenue, arguing in a London court that his synced email calendar revealed he had conspired to steal clients.

  • June 04, 2025

    Ex-Amazon Warehouse Worker Scrapes Win Over Health Bias

    Amazon's U.K. branch has dodged most of the disability discrimination allegations brought by a former warehouse worker, with a tribunal finding that his dismissal was justified even though the company committed a misstep in how it handled his extended medical absence.

  • June 04, 2025

    Pharma Biz Denies Infringing Rival's Blood Pressure Patent

    Roma Pharmaceuticals has fought back against claims that it infringed SyriMed's blood pressure treatment patent, claiming that its rival should not have received protections because the drug was not new.

Expert Analysis

  • Comparing Apples To Oranges In EPO Claim Interpretation

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    A referral before the Enlarged Board of Appeal could fundamentally change the role that descriptions play in claims interpretation at the European Patent Office, altering best drafting practices for patent applications construed there, say lawyers at Finnegan.

  • A Look At UK, EU And US Cartel Enforcement Trends

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    The European Union, U.K. and U.S. competition agencies' recently issued joint statement on competition risks in generative artificial intelligence demonstrates increased cross-border collaboration on cartel investigations, meaning companies facing investigations in one jurisdiction should anticipate related investigations in other jurisdictions, say lawyers at Latham & Watkins.

  • Testing The Limits Of English Courts' Pro-Arbitration Stance

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    Although the Court of Appeal recently upheld a $64 million arbitration award in Eternity Sky v. Zhang, the judgment offers rare insight into when the English courts’ general inclination to enforce arbitral awards may be outweighed by competing policy interests such as consumer rights, say Declan Gallivan and Peter Morton at K&L Gates.

  • What Green Claims Directive Proposal Means For Businesses

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    With the European Union’s recent adoption of a general approach to the proposed Green Claims Directive, which will regulate certain environmental claims and likely be finalized next year, companies keen to publicize their green credentials have even more reason to tread carefully, say Marcus Navin-Jones and Juge Gregg at Crowell & Moring.

  • EU Merger Control Concerns Remain After ECJ Illumina Ruling

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    The recent European Court of Justice judgment in Illumina-Grail is a welcome check on the commission's power to review low-threshold transactions, but with uncertainty persisting under existing laws and discretion left to national regulators, many pitfalls in European Union merger control remain, says Matthew Hall at McGuireWoods.

  • £43M Legal Bill Case Shows Courts' View On Exchange Rates

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    A recent Court of Appeal decision declined to change the currency used for payment of the Nigerian government's legal bill, aligning with British courts' consensus that they should not be concerned with how fluctuating exchange rates might benefit one party over another, says Francis Kendall at Kain Knight.

  • Examining The State Of Paccar Fixes After General Election

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    Following the U.K. Supreme Court's Paccar decision last year, which made many litigation funding agreements for opt-out collective actions in the Competition Appeal Tribunal unenforceable, the judiciary will likely take charge in implementing any fixes — but the general election has created uncertainty, says Ben Knowles at Clyde & Co.

  • EU Reports Signal Greenwashing Focus For Financial Sector

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    Reports from the European Supervisory Authorities on enforcement of sustainability information, plus related guidance issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority, represent a fundamental change in how businesses must operate to maintain integrity and public trust, say Amilcare Sada and Matteo Fanton at A&O Shearman.

  • Takeaways From UPC's Amgen Patent Invalidity Analysis

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    The Unified Patent Court Central Division's decision in Regeneron v. Amgen to revoke a patent for lack of inventive step is particularly clear in its reasoning and highlights the risks to patentees of the new court's central revocation powers, say Jane Evenson and Caitlin Heard at CMS.

  • GDPR 6 Years On: Key Points From EU Report

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    The European Commission’s recent report on the General Data Protection Regulation is clearly positive, concluding that it has brought benefits to both individuals and businesses, but stakeholders are still awaiting essential guidelines on scientific research and important business concerns remain, say Thibaut D'hulst and Malik Aouadi at Van Bael & Bellis.

  • UK Mandatory ADR Push Renews Mediation Standards Focus

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    In the wake of a Court of Appeal decision last year allowing courts to mandate alternative dispute resolution, the push toward mandatory ADR has continued with the aim of streamlining dispute resolution and reducing costs, say Ned Beale and Edward Nyman at Hausfeld.

  • 2 UK Rulings Highlight Persistent Push Payment Fraud Issues

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    Two recent High Court decisions, Larsson v. Revolut and Terna DOO v. Revolut, demonstrate that authorized push payment fraud continues to cause headaches for consumers and financial institutions alike, and with forthcoming mandatory reimbursement requirements, more APP fraud litigation can be expected, say lawyers at Charles Russell.

  • Decision Shows Cost Consequences Of Rejecting Mediation

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    An English county court's recent first-instance decision in Conway v. Conway & Meek, which imposed a reduction in costs due to what the judge saw as the defendants' unreasonable refusal to consider mediation, underscores a growing judicial willingness to promote mediation through cost sanctions, say Gerard Kelly and Gearoid Carey at Mason Hayes.

  • Duties And Questions To Consider In Expert Witness Selection

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    A spotlight has recently been shone on the role of expert witnesses due to the ongoing Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, which should remind all parties to take steps to understand what an expert witness is responsible for and what the selection process should look like, says Toby Hunt at HKA.

  • ECJ Cartel Damages Rulings Are Wins For Multinational Cos.

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    Two decisions from the European Court of Justice last month clarifying the limits of the single economic unit doctrine in cartel damages proceedings will help multinational companies anticipate and prepare for litigation within a narrower band of possible jurisdictions, say lawyers at Linklaters.

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