/commercial-litigation-uk?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Commercial Litigation UK Copyright 2025 ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. en-US Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:51:16 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363289?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363289 South African Olympic gold medal-winning runner Caster Semenya was deprived of her right to a fair hearing by a Swiss federal court when she appealed testosterone limits imposed on female athletes by track and field's international governing body, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:27:52 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363619?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363619 Moderna on Friday lambasted Pfizer and BioNTech's argument that a patent claim underpinning its mRNA technology was obvious, arguing that its rivals were asking an appeal court to undertake an essentially "impossible" task of upending the entirety of a lower court's reasoning on the matter. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:09:54 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363685?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363685 A London judge ruled Friday that celebrities suing the publisher of the U.K.'s Daily Mail newspaper for allegedly gathering information about them through unlawful methods cannot prove their individual claims by showing the company's journalists used those methods habitually. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:37:09 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2361444?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2361444 The owner of a green economy investment company has alleged that a human rights advocate defamed the owner in an article that claimed he used his companies to embezzle more than $1 billion into offshore accounts and had bribed high-profile U.S. officials. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:27:17 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2361973?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2361973 The owner of the Rockfish Weatherwear shoe brand has claimed it is no longer obliged to license its trademarks to a Chinese brand management company because of an "irremediable breach" on the company's part after threatening to sue Rockfish's parent company without informing it. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:51:19 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363612?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363612 The liquidators of a collapsed Thai lender can be paid from the English assets of two deceased financiers convicted over an embezzlement scheme, after a judge held Friday the funds can go to partially cover a judgment debt totaling £60 million ($81 million). Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:50:36 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363635?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363635 Wise Payments has partly succeeded in its infringement claims against With Wise, but its rival has managed to narrow down the scope of goods it can market with "Wise" after a London judge found it never intended to sell them. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:41:45 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363651?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363651 A judge ruled Friday that a toymaker's former chief financial officer must pay nearly £290,000 ($391,772) in costs or face the collapse of his claim against the company, after he failed to follow court orders and continued to bring "vexatious" claims. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:34:05 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363629?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363629 This past week in London has seen HS2 hit with a defamation claim by two ex-employees who blew the whistle on alleged under-reporting of costs, Craig Wright and nChain face legal action brought by its former chief financial officer over a fraud scheme, and pro-footballer Axel Tuanzebe bring a clinical negligence claim against his former club Manchester United F.C. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:35:53 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2361969?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2361969 A student flat letting agency has accused a rival and its director of stealing and watermarking its own copyrighted images to advertise apartments in Leicester, which he later allegedly admitted to in a recorded call. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:45:24 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363091?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363091 A Royal Mail staffer has won more than £13,000 ($18,000) in her Employment Tribunal case against the company after a judge concluded that a boss failed to help her professional development because she sued the business 10 years earlier. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:28:34 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363611?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363611 A London appeals court upheld a £15 million ($20.3 million) asset freeze on Friday against the wife of a former insurance company executive who is accused of cashing in on money her husband siphoned off from the business. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:47:05 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2362591?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2362591 A landmark tribunal ruling that upheld the Financial Conduct Authority's ban of ex-Barclays CEO James "Jes" Staley from banking — but slashed his fine — could ultimately lead other executives with back-loaded pay packages to fight the watchdog's decisions, lawyers say. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:23:26 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363604?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363604 The Court of Appeal dismissed Phones 4u's claims Friday that the U.K.'s biggest phone operators colluded to drive the retailer out of business, upholding findings that there was no evidence of anticompetitive behavior between the networks. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:21:49 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363135?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363135 Pfizer asked an appeals court Thursday to revoke surplus patent protections underpinning rival Moderna's mRNA vaccine after getting a key patent tossed. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:24:55 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363090?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363090 A shipping company told the Court of Appeal on Thursday that it should be entitled to a $1.85 million award arising from the botched purchase of a vessel, arguing it is owed damages for prospective losses. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:14:15 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363075?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363075 A former trade union official argued Thursday that a decision ruling his expulsion was fair incorrectly considered whether there was a risk that the chair of a disciplinary panel was biased against him, rather than whether there was a risk of "the possibility of bias." Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:41:45 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363098?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2363098 A London judge on Thursday approved Russian aluminum giant Rusal to serve a claim on Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich via his lawyers over alleged breaches of an agreement setting out the governance of a Russian mining company. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:03:42 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2356037?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2356037 A housing association has alleged that a construction consultancy owes it £28.8 million ($39 million) after providing significantly underpriced estimates for the building costs of a London property development that shouldn't have gone ahead. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:24:25 +0000 /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2361976?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /commercial-litigation-uk/articles/2361976 A law firm has denied giving former Pandora boss Peter Andersen negligent tax advice that saddled him and the jeweler with a £3.3 million ($4.5 million) tax bill because of Andersen's pension trust.