Commercial Litigation UK

  • April 17, 2025

    Ex-Burberry Designer Can Expand ADHD Discrimination Case

    A Burberry fashion design school graduate who alleged that having meetings in his workplace was disability discrimination because he has ADHD was granted permission on Thursday to expand his case — but only if he provides more details.

  • April 16, 2025

    Russia-Owned Lessor Denies Qatar Airways' $155M Jets Claim

    A Russian state-owned aircraft leasing company has fired back at a $155 million counterclaim in a dispute with Qatar Airways Group over aircraft that were grounded after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, denying that it caused the airline losses.

  • April 16, 2025

    Bar Owners Who Tried To Kill Dismissal Case Must Pay Costs

    An employment tribunal has ruled that two companies must pay £8,370 ($11,100) to cover a former staffer's costs on top of her unfair dismissal award, ruling that they should not have tried to get struck off the U.K. company register to kill her case.

  • April 16, 2025

    Law Firm Scolded For SRA Threat In Race Discrimination Case

    A law firm made a potentially "intimidating" threat to file a Solicitors Regulation Authority report against a potential witness in a former employee's race discrimination claim, a tribunal has said.

  • April 16, 2025

    Google Faces £5B UK Class Action Over Search Ads

    A group of U.K. businesses said Wednesday that they are suing Google for more than £5 billion ($6.6 billion), alleging that the technology giant has abused its monopoly in the search engine market by overcharging them for placement in its search results.

  • April 16, 2025

    Jet2Holidays Sued Over Hotel Hygiene Failures In Turkey

    A group of 100 travelers is suing the tour operator Jet2Holidays, alleging they suffered gastrointestinal illnesses due to poor hygiene at a resort in Turkey and saying the holiday provider should have told them about a known outbreak at the hotel.

  • April 16, 2025

    Ex-Credit Suisse Consultant Appeals Worker Status Ruling

    A former Credit Suisse consultant won a second shot on Wednesday to bring whistleblowing and racial discrimination claims after a London appeals tribunal gave her permission to challenge a ruling that she was not a worker at the bank.

  • April 16, 2025

    Apple's Challenge To UK Class Action Funding Deal Fails

    The Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that litigation-funders backing a £853 million collective action against Apple over iPhone batteries could be paid in advance of class members, concluding there was "nothing wrong" with a financing agreement that states this.

  • April 15, 2025

    Truck Aerodynamics Co. Slams Strikeout Bid In Patent Row

    A truck aerodynamics company has hit back at a strikeout request brought by the competitor it is accusing of infringing a patent it owned by wrongly modifying its spoilers, arguing the case involves disputed facts and requires a trial.

  • April 15, 2025

    Clyde & Co. Must Face Bias Claim From Rejected Applicant

    A woman rejected for training contracts with Clyde & Co. LLP can revive her failed bid to sue the firm for discrimination, a London appeals tribunal ruled Tuesday.

  • April 15, 2025

    Ideagen Says K10 Vision Misled Clients With False Product Ties

    Audit software company Ideagen Ltd. has accused the former owners of a business it acquired for over £19 million ($25.1 million) of tricking clients into defecting to a rival startup through false claims of involvement in developing a key Ideagen product.

  • April 15, 2025

    ICC And Legal Tech Co. Opus 2 Release Arbitration Software

    The International Chamber of Commerce, which houses the International Court of Arbitration, launched its new case management system ICC Case Connect in collaboration with legal tech company Opus 2.

  • April 15, 2025

    Canadian Investigator's UK Employment Claims Dismissed

    An employment tribunal has dismissed a Canadian investigator's claims that a conflict research firm unfairly fired her, ruling that she lacked the necessary U.K. links to benefit from employment protections.

  • April 15, 2025

    MediaTek Gets Court To Speed Up Huawei FRAND Spat

    Semiconductor giant MediaTek has convinced a London court to hurry along proceedings to determine fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory cross-licensing terms for a suit of 4G and 5G patents with Huawei.

  • April 15, 2025

    Justices Slam Thames Water For Rushing Rescue Plan OK

    The Court of Appeal criticized Thames Water on Tuesday for putting the court system under "enormous pressure" to accommodate proposals for an emergency restructuring plan, as it published the full reasons for approving the £3 billion ($4 billion) loan. 

  • April 15, 2025

    Lebanon Bank Trims Costs On Transfer Disclosure Ruling

    A London judge has ruled a Lebanon-based bank has successfully argued for reducing the amount of information it must disclose regarding a jurisdictional challenge, after the lender refused to transfer £23.8 million ($31.5 million) of a U.K.-based Saudi national to his Swiss account.

  • April 15, 2025

    Santander Dodges 'Mortgage Prisoners' Claim From Couple

    A London judge upheld on Tuesday a decision by a consumer complaints agency to reject a couple's claim that Santander kept them as "mortgage prisoners," declining to rule that the bank waived the time limit on the complaint.

  • April 15, 2025

    Fintech Biz Unfairly Fired Underperforming Sales Rep

    A financial technology company unfairly dismissed a struggling sales rep by failing to highlight concerns over his performance until a week after it had already cut him loose, a tribunal has ruled.

  • April 15, 2025

    Ex-Fund Boss Loses Path To Fight $400M Ponzi Scheme Debt

    The top appeals court for U.K. overseas territories refused on Tuesday to prevent liquidators from chasing a former hedge fund manager for a $400 million debt linked to a financier convicted of running a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme more than a decade ago.

  • April 14, 2025

    Arbitrator Services Co. Adds Chilean-Russian Panelist

    Arbitrator support services company Arbitra International said it has added a Chilean-Russian lawyer to its global membership list of dispute panelists, saying her focus on Latin America and Russia-related matters will add to its growth in those two regions where it is seeing increased demand.

  • April 14, 2025

    Ex-Mitie Security Manager Fired Over Use Of CCTV Wins £31K

    An employment tribunal awarded a former Mitie security manager £31,600 ($41,650) after the company fired him following a flawed investigation into his unauthorized use of closed-circuit television without clearly setting out its policy or explaining the alleged data breach.

  • April 14, 2025

    No Early Win For Hancock In Ex-MP's COVID Tweet Libel Case

    Matthew Hancock lost a bid Monday to nix a libel claim from ex-Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen over a tweet in which the former health secretary described COVID-19 vaccine comments by the ex-lawmaker as antisemitic conspiracy theories.

  • April 14, 2025

    Ex-BGC Tax Adviser Admits Contempt In £23M Fraud Case

    A former BGC Partners employee faces a potential jail sentence after admitting before a London judge Monday that he breached restrictions the court imposed after he committed a £23.5 million ($30.9 million) fraud against a subsidiary.

  • April 14, 2025

    Credit Suisse Ignored Greensill Risks, Softbank Tells Court

    Softbank told the High Court Monday that Credit Suisse executives had "accepted the risks" that investors might not be paid at the time they agreed to cancel a trade with Greensill Capital in the lead-up to the finance firm's collapse.

  • April 14, 2025

    Costco OK To Fire Worker For Positive Breath Alcohol Tests

    Costco has defeated a former staffer's claims of unfair dismissal after an employment tribunal ruled that she was "straw clutching" by denying scientific evidence that she had come to work under the influence of alcohol.

Expert Analysis

  • 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.

  • Employment Law Changes May Increase Litigation In 2024

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    As we enter 2024, significant employment law updates include changes to holiday pay, gender equality and flexible working, but the sector must deal with the unintended consequences of some of these changes, likely leading to increased litigation in the coming year, says Louise Taft at Jurit.

  • How 'Copyleft' Licenses May Affect Generative AI Output

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    Open-source software and the copyleft licenses that support it, whereby derivative works must be made available for others to use and modify, have been a boon to the development of artificial intelligence, but could lead to issues for coders who use AI to help write code and may find their resulting work exposed, says William Dearn at HLK.

  • UK Compulsory Mediation Ruling Still Leaves Courts Leeway

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    An English Court of Appeal recently issued a landmark decision in Churchill v. Merthyr Tydfil County, stating that courts can compel parties to engage in alternative dispute resolution, but the decision does not dictate how courts should exercise this power, which litigants will likely welcome, say lawyers at Herbert Smith.

  • Russia Ruling Shows UK's Robust Jurisdiction Approach

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    An English High Court's recent decision to grant an anti-suit injunction in the Russia-related dispute Renaissance Securities v. Chlodwig Enterprises clearly illustrates that obtaining an injunction will likely be more straightforward when the seat is in England compared to when it is abroad, say lawyers at Linklaters.

  • EU Rejection Of Booking.com Deal Veers From Past Practice

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    The European Commission's recent prohibition of Booking's purchase of Etraveli based on ecosystem theories of harm reveals a lower bar for prohibiting nonhorizontal mergers, and may mean increased merger scrutiny for companies with entrenched market positions in digital markets, say lawyers at Linklaters.

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