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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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Forced Labor Imports Raise Criminal Risks For UK Retailers
Last summer’s London appeals court ruling applying the Proceeds of Crime Act to products made with forced labor, potential legislative reforms and recent BBC allegations about Chinese produce harvested by Uyghur detainees suggest British importers and retailers should increase scrutiny of their supply chains, says Ian Hargreaves at Quillon Law.