Commercial Litigation UK

  • April 29, 2025

    Caterpillar Says Dumping Probe Decisions 'Flawed And Unfair'

    A Chinese arm of construction equipment giant Caterpillar argued in a London court Tuesday that it had been mistreated by the U.K. government over an anti-dumping probe, saying that it had been wrongly locked out of participating in the investigation.

  • April 29, 2025

    Solicitor Denies Deleting Emails To Cover Up Client Complaint

    A solicitor told a disciplinary tribunal Tuesday that she did not attempt to mislead her firm by deleting emails about a client complaint, saying she could not remember deleting them and was under severe work stress at the time.

  • April 29, 2025

    Fiber Network Biz Fired Exec For Raising Trespass Concerns

    A fiber broadband network provider made its chief technical officer redundant after he repeatedly raised concerns that the company was trespassing on private land, an employment tribunal has ruled.

  • April 29, 2025

    Ex-Russells Partner Denies Role In Alleged Share Sale Plot

    Russells Solicitors and a former partner have denied being part of an alleged plot to hide plans for a $40 million takeover of a celebrity intellectual property licensing company to get a former director to sell his shares cheaply.

  • April 29, 2025

    Part-Time Status Not Sole Cause For Worker's Overtime Denial

    A part-time London Underground worker who claimed to have been treated unfairly after his overtime requests were canceled failed Tuesday to overturn a ruling that his employment status was not the sole cause for the denial.

  • April 29, 2025

    Vardy Must Foot Rooney Costs In Lawyer Fee Challenge

    Rebekah Vardy was ordered on Tuesday to pay the full legal costs of her unsuccessful attempt to challenge a finding that Coleen Rooney's lawyers had not committed misconduct by understating their costs in the libel battle between the footballers' wives.

  • April 29, 2025

    Fruit & Veg Biz Wins Shot At Cropping Worker's £130K Payout

    A fruit and vegetable supplier has won the chance to trim parts of a former employee's discrimination payout of £130,000 ($174,100), persuading an appeals judge that a lower tribunal had misjudged the compensation bill.

  • April 28, 2025

    Irwin Mitchell-Led Holidaymakers In Illness Claim Against TUI

    A group of more than 30 holidaymakers represented by Irwin Mitchell LLP are suing TUI for allegedly causing them to contract gastrointestinal illnesses in Cape Verde, in the law firm's latest claim against a package holiday company.

  • April 28, 2025

    Firefighter Wins Shot To Amend Sex, Disability Bias Claim

    A male firefighter who was demoted after a complaint about his conduct toward a female colleague has won a chance to amend his sex and disability discrimination case, after an appeal tribunal ruling Monday that a judge's decision to reject the changes was flawed.

  • April 28, 2025

    Court Compels Disclosure In £500K Phone Crypto-Theft Case

    The victim of a phone-snatching in London has secured a court order compelling four companies offering digital asset exchange services to disclose documents tied to an alleged fraud perpetrated against them after £500,000 ($667,000) in cryptocurrency was drained from his account.

  • April 28, 2025

    Investment Services Biz Denies Swiss Bank Deal Breach

    Investment services company Otala.Markets has hit back at a €1.5 million ($1.7 million) claim brought by Swiss bank Credinvest, telling the High Court that it did not breach its contract with the lender when it accidentally tried to terminate the deal.

  • April 28, 2025

    Teaching Union Reopens Leadership Race After Court Dispute

    A teachers' union told a London court on Monday that it had agreed to reopen leadership nominations after it was challenged by a would-be candidate who said the organization broke rules by deeming him ineligible and appointing someone unopposed.

  • April 28, 2025

    Lender Sues Auditor For £1.8M Over Faulty Car Reports

    A provider of business finance has alleged that an auditor inaccurately recorded the assets of a London car dealership, leading the lender to lose more than £1.8 million ($2.4 million) that it handed over to the motor sales company based on the faulty assessment.

  • April 25, 2025

    Deripaska Sues To Uncover Source Of Allegedly Forged Report

    A Russian oligarch has asked a London court to order a business intelligence company to divulge the source of an allegedly forged report used to back up a former business partner's bid to challenge a $95 million arbitration award.

  • April 25, 2025

    M&S Worker Fired Upon Disclosing Pregnancy Wins Claim

    A former Marks and Spencer worker has won her discrimination case after a tribunal concluded that she was dismissed because she disclosed she was pregnant.

  • April 25, 2025

    Management Co. Denies Claims By Angus And Julia Stone

    London-based music management company HNOE Ltd. has hit back at an AU$1.1 million ($690,000) counterclaim by Australian indie pop duo Angus and Julia Stone in their dispute over management agreement commission payments, saying that the band's case was "plainly false."

  • April 25, 2025

    Tycoon's Son Loses Challenge To £3M Howard Kennedy Bill

    The son of a diamond tycoon accused of swindling $1 billion from banks lost his bid for a court-ordered review of his legal bills from Howard Kennedy on Friday as the High Court said he knew of the climbing costs linked to his international fraud case.

  • April 25, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen pub operator Stonegate sue insurance broker Marsh, a human rights lawyer sued for defamation by Russian businessman Ovik Mkrtchyan, and British toy-maker The Character Group reignite an employment dispute with a former finance director. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • April 25, 2025

    Fashion Firm Beats Unfair Dismissal Claim From Ex-Employee

    A judge tossed an unfair dismissal claim on Friday brought by a former employee of a luxury fashion recruitment consultancy, saying the business made a fair decision to fire her based on poor performance.

  • April 25, 2025

    Crypto Firm Denies Joint Venture Claim From Tether Unit

    A crypto trading firm has hit back against a claim by a unit of the blockchain company Tether over a soured bitcoin mining joint venture, arguing it owns any trade secrets or proprietary information generated by its investments.

  • April 25, 2025

    Aegon Defeats Worker's Contract Claim After Work Transfer

    Aegon has beaten an unfair dismissal claim brought by a former Nationwide employee who resigned after his job transferred to the insurer, arguing that changes to his work conditions left him no choice but to quit.

  • April 25, 2025

    MoD Supplier Says Ex-Worker Leaked Classified Warship Info

    An engineering firm has accused a former employee of handing a rival classified data linked to its supply of components for warships to the Royal Navy, telling a London court that his actions have damaged its relationship with the Ministry of Defence.

  • April 24, 2025

    SocGen Blames Clifford Chance For Failed $483M Gold Claim

    SocGen has told the High Court that Clifford Chance LLP was negligent in its advice to the bank over a gold bullion dispute worth $483 million, saying the poor advice caused the lender's claim to be struck out as an abuse of process.

  • April 24, 2025

    Bollywood Film Unit To Pay £84K To Ex-Exec Forced To Quit

    Bollywood media conglomerate Eros International Ltd. must pay its former chief strategy officer over £84,000 ($112,000) after an employment tribunal upheld his claim for constructive dismissal.

  • April 24, 2025

    IBM Rival Gets Sales Ban Stayed In Reverse-Engineering Fight

    A London court said Thursday it will delay an order banning a Swiss company's sales of technology that it unlawfully reverse-engineered from IBM's software, holding fire while awaiting the outcome of a potential appeal.

Expert Analysis

  • BT Case May Shape UK Class Action Landscape

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    The first opt-out collective action trial commenced in Le Patourel v. BT in the U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal last month, regarding BT's abuse of dominance by overcharging millions of customers, will likely provide clarification on damages and funder returns in collective actions, which could significantly affect the class action regime, say lawyers at RPC.

  • Key Points From EC Economic Security Screening Initiatives

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    Lawyers at Herbert Smith analyze the European Commission's five recently announced initiatives aimed at de-risking the EU's trade and investment links with third countries, including the implementation of mandatory screening mechanisms and extending coverage to investments made by EU companies that are controlled subsidiaries of non-EU investors.

  • Following The Road Map Toward Quantum Security

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    With the Financial Conduct Authority’s recent publication of a white paper on a quantum-secure financial sector, firms should begin to consider the quantum transition early — before the process is driven by regulatory obligations — with the goal of developing a cybersecurity architecture that is agile while also allowing for quantum security, say lawyers at Cleary.

  • Why EU Ruling On Beneficial Ownership May Affect The UK

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    Following the EU judgment in Sovim v. Luxembourg that public access to beneficial ownership information conflicts with data protection rights, several British overseas territories and dependencies have recently reversed their commitment to introduce unrestricted access, and challenges to the U.K.’s liberal stance may be on the cards, says Rupert Cullen at Allectus Law.

  • Opinion

    Labour Should Reconsider Its Discrimination Law Plans

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    While the Labour Party's recent proposals allowing equal pay claims based on ethnicity and disability, and introducing dual discrimination, have laudable intentions and bring some advantages, they are not the right path forward as the changes complicate the discrimination claim process for employees, say Colin Leckey and Tarun Tawakley at Lewis Silkin.

  • AI Is Outpacing IP Law Frameworks

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    In Thaler v. Comptroller-General, the U.K. Supreme Court recently ruled that artificial intelligence can't be an inventor, but the discussion on the relationship between AI and intellectual property law is far from over, and it's clear that technology is developing faster than the legal framework, says Stephen Carter at The Intellectual Property Works.

  • Tracing The History Of LGBTQ+ Rights In The Workplace

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    Pride History month is a timely reminder of how recent developments have shaped LGBTQ+ employees' rights in the workplace today, and what employers can do to ensure that employees are protected from discrimination, including creating safe workplace cultures and promoting allyship, say Caitlin Farrar and Jessica Bennett at Farrer.

  • Ruling In FCA Case Offers Tips On Flexible Work Requests

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    In Wilson v. Financial Conduct Authority, the Employment Tribunal recently found that the regulator's rejection of a remote work request was justified, highlighting for employers factors that affect flexible work request outcomes, while emphasizing that individual inquiries should be considered on the specific facts, say Frances Rollin, Ella Tunnell and Kerry Garcia at Stevens & Bolton.

  • Pension Scheme Ruling Elucidates Conversion Issues

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    In Newell Trustees v. Newell Rubbermaid UK Services, the High Court recently upheld a pension plan's conversion of final salary benefits to money purchase benefits, a welcome conclusion that considered several notable issues, such as how to construe pension deeds and when contracts made outside scheme rules can determine benefits, say Ian Gordon and Jamie Barnett at Gowling.

  • New Fraud Prevention Offense May Not Make Much Difference

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    By targeting only large organizations, the Economic Crime Act's new failure to prevent fraud offense is striking in that, despite its breadth, it will affect so few companies, and is therefore unlikely to help ordinary victims, says Andrew Smith at Corker Binning.

  • Aldi Design Infringement Case Highlights Assessment Issues

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    The forthcoming English Court of Appeal decision in Marks and Spencer v. Aldi, regarding the alleged infringement of design rights, could provide practitioners with new guidance, particularly in relation to the relevant date for assessment of infringement and the weight that should be attributed to certain design elements in making this assessment, say Rory Graham and Georgia Davis at RPC.

  • Generative AI Raises IP, Data Protection And Contracts Issues

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    As the EU's recent agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act has fueled businesses' interest in adopting generative AI tools, it is crucial to understand how these tools utilize material to generate output and what questions to ask in relation to intellectual property, data privacy and contracts, say lawyers at Deloitte Legal.

  • Decoding UK Case Law On Anti-Suit Injunctions

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    The English High Court's forthcoming decision on an anti-suit injunction filed in Augusta Energy v. Top Oil last month will provide useful guidance on application grounds for practitioners, but, pending that ruling, other recent decisions offer key considerations when making or resisting claims when there is an exclusive jurisdiction clause in the contract, says Abigail Healey at Quillon Law.

  • Litigation Funding Implications Amid Post-PACCAR Disputes

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    An English tribunal's recent decision in Neill v. Sony, allowing an appeal on the enforceability of a litigation funding agreement, highlights how the legislative developments on funding limits following the U.K. Supreme Court's 2023 decision in Paccar v. Competition Appeal Tribunal may affect practitioners, say Andrew Leitch and Anoma Rekhi at BCLP.

  • EU Product Liability Reforms Represent A Major Shakeup

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    The recent EU Parliament and Council provisional agreement on a new product liability regime in Europe revises the existing strict liability rules for the first time in 40 years by easing the burden of proof to demonstrate that a product is defective, a hurdle that many had previously failed to overcome, say Anushi Amin and Edward Turtle at Cooley.

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