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July 23, 2025
Simmons & Simmons Nixes Ex-Worker's Disability Bias Claim
Simmons & Simmons LLP has persuaded a London judge to throw out a former employee's disability discrimination claim, proving that she was not disabled under U.K. equality laws.
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July 22, 2025
Racecourses Lose Early Fight In £80M COVID Cover Battle
A racecourse business shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday lost its case that £2.5 million ($3.4 million) insurance limits applied to every canceled race, with a London court ruling that each event was not a separate point of loss.
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July 22, 2025
UKIPO Warns AI Patent Appeal Is A 'Recipe For Disaster'
Counsel for the U.K.'s intellectual property authority lambasted an AI company's bid to replace the country's established tests for determining whether an invention is patentable, as a high-profile AI patent trial before the U.K. Supreme Court draws to a close.
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July 22, 2025
Artist Can't Appeal Fake 'Fishrot' Apology Copyright Breach
A performance artist can't appeal a decision that he infringed the copyright of Iceland's largest fishing company by creating a spoof corruption apology about the company's involvement in bribing Namibian officials, a London court ruled Tuesday.
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July 22, 2025
VTB Sues Investment Biz In Sanctions Dispute Over Trades
VTB Capital PLC has sued an investment firm for $3.4 million over unsettled trades of Russian securities, arguing that the other company did not have the right to terminate the trades due to sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine.
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July 22, 2025
Nigerian Domestic Worker Wins Case Over Exploitation
A Nigerian domestic worker has successfully brought a claim against her British employers for unpaid wages, denial of rest periods and constructive dismissal, after an employment tribunal found that she was systematically exploited and misled.
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July 22, 2025
Bristol Airport Takes Legal Action Over £205M Cardiff Subsidy
Bristol Airport is launching a legal challenge at the Competition Appeal Tribunal after the Welsh government granted a £205 million ($276 million) public funding package to Cardiff Airport, according to a claim form published Tuesday.
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July 22, 2025
Golf Adviser Reaped $2M In Secret Commissions, Court Rules
A former consultant to a U.K. golf retailer engaged in deceit, breach of trust and breach of fiduciary duty to reap over $2 million in secret commissions related to sales of golf equipment, a London court ruled Tuesday.
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July 22, 2025
Russian Magnate's Bankruptcy Trustee Can't Stop Share Move
The bankruptcy trustee of the founder of a Russian bank on Monday lost his bid to halt the release of shares to companies alleged to be owned by the businessman, with a London court ruling that they should not be withheld.
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July 22, 2025
DWF Beats Data Privacy Challenge In Injury Fraud Evidence
A London court tossed claims Tuesday that DWF Law LLP broke data protection laws when it analyzed and shared health information from three former personal injury claimants in a bid to expose alleged fraud patterns in road traffic accident cases.
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July 22, 2025
Bayer Challenges Generics' Profit Claims In Xarelto Dispute
Bayer argued at a London court Tuesday that a request from Sandoz that it hand over its profits from an invalidated blood-thinning patent should be rejected because this would go beyond what the two pharmaceutical giants had agreed.
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July 22, 2025
GDPR Whistleblower Wins Bid To Be Paid Until Full Trial
An employment tribunal has ordered a luxury car dealership to keep paying the salary of an employee it recently fired, ruling that she had a strong case that the company had punished her for speaking out over data protection breaches.
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July 22, 2025
HP Owed More Than £730M From Autonomy Fraud Case
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is owed more than £730 million ($985 million) from the estate of Mike Lynch and his former business partner, a London judge ruled on Tuesday, almost a year after the technology entrepreneur died when a yacht he was aboard sank in the Mediterranean Sea.
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July 21, 2025
UK Co. Faces £1M Penalty For Failing To Report Tax Scheme
HM Revenue & Customs was right to determine that a company had promoted a contractor loan tax scheme, a London tribunal ruled, finding the Manchester-based business liable for up to £1 million ($1.3 million) in penalties.
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July 21, 2025
Family Claims Bad Tax Advice Led To Costly HMRC Bills
The trustees of family trusts accused a U.K. accounting firm of giving them negligent advice that led to unexpected inheritance taxes and penalties owed to HM Revenue & Customs, according to a claim filed in a London court.
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July 21, 2025
AI Should Qualify For Patent Protection, Developer Argues
Counsel for Emotional Perception urged the U.K.'s top court Monday to upend a ruling that its artificial intelligence invention could not be protected by a patent, opening a landmark appeal that could set the parameters for whether AI can be patented going forward.
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July 21, 2025
Wimbledon Served Court Win Over £200M Expansion Plan
Campaigners have lost their bid to stop a £200 million ($270 million) expansion of Wimbledon tennis ground, with the High Court ruling Monday that the local authority had properly considered all aspects of the proposal and was entitled to approve the expansion plan.
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July 21, 2025
Ex-Execs Sue Telecom Biz Over Alleged £8M Share Sale Loss
Two former directors of a telecom technology company are suing their successors for over £8 million ($10.7 million), alleging they were tricked into selling their shares at a fraction of their true value.
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July 21, 2025
Trader Blames Deutsche Bank For Spoofing Conviction
A former Deutsche Bank trader convicted of tricking market competitors through a "spoofing" scheme has sued the bank in a London court, alleging it trained him to use an illegal trading strategy and then "scapegoated" him when he faced prosecution.
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July 21, 2025
Kession Fights Liability In £1.7M Collective Investment Case
A finance company urged the U.K.'s top court Monday to partly override a judgment that found it liable for botched property investments worth approximately £1.7 million ($2.3 million), arguing that its liability to investors should have been limited.
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July 21, 2025
Oracle Sues Data Center Firm For Infringing 'Sun' Trademark
Oracle International Corporation and the U.S. arm of the software business have sued a hardware maintenance company, accusing it of selling products bearing its trademarks in the U.K. without authorization.
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July 21, 2025
Police Officer Launches Legal Challenge Against Union Ban
A police officer is taking the home secretary to court over a century-old law that bans officers from unionizing, arguing the restriction violates human rights and leaves officers with no credible form of independent representation, lawyers at Leigh Day confirmed Monday.
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July 21, 2025
MPs Call For Review To Fix 'Dysfunctional' County Courts
U.K. parliamentarians called on Monday for an "urgent and comprehensive, root-and-branch" review of the County Court system after a scathing report warned of unacceptable levels of delays, rat infestations in buildings and outdated operations.
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July 21, 2025
Oil Biz Must Face Dishonesty Claims Over $335M Fraud Case
Arcadia Group has failed to strike out claims by the former chief executive and the finance boss at the oil trader who alleged that the company had dishonestly accused them of funneling $335 million profits in their own pockets.
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July 21, 2025
Barrister Loses Appeal Over Disbarment For Dishonesty
A barrister who supervised an unregistered immigration advice firm and lied to his regulator about it failed to overturn his disbarment, as a judge held Monday that the sanction was "clearly appropriate."
Expert Analysis
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Why Cos. Should Investigate Unethical Supply Chain Conduct
The U.K. government’s recent updated guidance for businesses on reporting slavery and human trafficking in supply chains underscores the urgent need for companies to adopt transparent and measurable due diligence practices, reinforcing the broader need for proactive internal investigations into unethical or criminal conduct, say lawyers at Seladore and Matrix Chambers.
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UK Top Court Charts Limits Of Liability In Ship Explosion Case
A recent U.K. Supreme Court ruling, capping a ship charterer's damages for an onboard explosion, casts a clarifying light upon the murky waters of maritime liability, particularly concerning the delicate operation of limitation under the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.
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What Latest VC Model Document Revisions Offer UK Investors
Recent updates to the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association model documents, reflecting prevailing U.K. market practice on early-stage equity financing terms and increasing focus on compliance issues, provide needed protection for investors in relation to the growth in global foreign direct investment regimes, say lawyers at Davis Polk.
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Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Precision In Jurisdiction Clauses
The High Court recently held that a contract requiring disputes to be heard by U.K. courts superseded arbitration agreements between long-time business affiliates, reinforcing the importance of drafting precise jurisdiction clauses that international commercial parties in multiagreement relationships will use to resolve prior disputes, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.
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What Age Bias Ruling Means For Law Firm Retirement Policies
The recent employment tribunal age discrimination decision in Scott v. Walker Morris demonstrates that while law firms may implement mandatory retirement schemes, the policy must pursue a legitimate aim via proportionate means to pass the objective justification test, says Chris Hadrill at Redmans Solicitors.
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Acas Guide Shows How To Support Neurodiverse Employees
A new guide on neurodiversity in the workplace from the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service reminds employers of the duty to make reasonable adjustments that will effectively alleviate any disadvantage an employee may experience at work, say lawyers at Withers.
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UK's Arbitration Act Is More A Revision Than An Overhaul
The recently enacted U.K. Arbitration Act 2025 represents the most significant update to English arbitration law since 1996, and while it reinforces many strengths that made London the leading arbitral seat, its failure to address certain key areas means the legislation missed the opportunity to truly be a benchmark, say lawyers at RPC.
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Google Win Illustrates Hurdles To Mass Data Privacy Claims
The Court of Appeal's December decision in Prismall v. Google, holding each claimant in a mass data privacy suit must demonstrate an individualized and sufficiently serious injury, demonstrates the difficulty of using representative action to collect damages for misused private information, say lawyers at Seladore Legal.
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How New EU Product Liability Directive Will Affect Tech And AI
While the European Union’s new defective product liability directive, effective from December 2026, primarily provides clarifications rather than significant changes, it reflects the EU's commitment to addressing consumer protection and accountability challenges presented by the digital economy and artificial intelligence, say lawyers at Latham.
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EU Hybrid Venue Ruling Doesn't Ensure Local Enforceability
A recent decision from the European Union's top court, affirming that contracts may grant one party greater control over litigation venue, is encouraging for similarly asymmetrical arbitration agreements, but local enforceability rules within the EU and beyond mean that such contracts' validity may still be determined individually, say lawyers at Signature Litigation.
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New CMA Powers Will Change Consumer Protection Regime
The Competition and Markets Authority’s imminent broadened powers to impose penalties on organizations for unethical or misleading practices are likely to transform the U.K.’s consumer protection regime, and may lead to a rise in private litigation and increased regulatory scrutiny, say lawyers at Morgan Lewis.
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A Look At Current Challenges In Whistleblowing Practice
Consensus on the status of reforming Great Britain's whistleblowing framework is currently difficult to discern, and thorny issues revealed by recent cases highlight undesirable uncertainties for those pursuing and defending whistleblowing claims, says Ivor Adair at Fox & Partners.
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Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Fiscal Liability Vs. Int'l Investment
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes' award in Amec Foster Wheeler USA v. Colombia, upholding the country's jurisdictional objections, exemplifies the growing tension between domestic regulatory measures and international investment protections, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn Square Chambers.
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How UK Supreme Court May Assess Russia Sanctions Cases
In two recent U.K. Supreme Court cases challenging the U.K. Russia sanctions regime, the forthcoming judgments are likely to focus on proportionality and European Convention on Human Rights compatibility, and will undoubtedly influence how future challenges are shaped, says Leigh Crestohl at Zaiwalla.
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How EU Digital Act Could Shape UK Technology Disputes
Noncompliance with the recently effective European Union Digital Operational Resilience Act will add layers of complexity to disputes and litigation for U.K.-based firms servicing EU entities, but international standards may serve as a bridge between jurisdictional and contractual misalignments, says Siobhan Forster at Alvarez & Marsal.