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July 15, 2025
Trainline Accuses Gov't Of Unlawfully Awarding £32M Contract
Trainline.com Ltd. has sued the government for allegedly deciding to award a competitor an overpriced £32 million ($42.9 million) contract relating to an online rail ticketing platform in breach of "the most basic and fundamental standards of transparency" for procurement processes.
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July 15, 2025
Law Firm Beats Ex-Staffer's Bid To Revive Client Contact Case
A former employee of a Yorkshire law firm has failed to persuade an employment tribunal to revisit its ruling rejecting her claims that the firm failed to safeguard her against abusive emails sent by her ex-partner to her work email.
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July 15, 2025
'Orange King' And Son Say Cartel Claims Are Stale
The estate and son of Brazil's late "Orange King" argued in a London trial Tuesday that claims by more than 1,400 Brazilian orange farmers over a price-fixing cartel should be halted because they were brought out of time.
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July 15, 2025
Fraud Victim Can't Pursue Wealth Manager's Kids
An ophthalmologist cannot pursue the children of a dead wealth manager for assisting in the dissipation of frozen funds, after a judge ruled Tuesday that there is no evidence that they were aware of their father's $14 million fraud.
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July 15, 2025
PwC Settles Property Biz's £9M Tax Negligence Case
PwC has settled claims that it should pay £8.9 million ($12 million) for causing a property group to be penalized by the U.K. tax authority after the Big Four accountancy firm allegedly miscalculated its tax liabilities and incorrectly priced its properties.
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July 15, 2025
Broker Beats Ex-Employee's Claim She Was Forced To Quit
An employment tribunal has ruled that an insurance broker didn't force an executive assistant to resign by adding more responsibilities to her role after a part-time colleague left.
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July 15, 2025
Afghan Nationals Prepare To Sue MoD Over Data Breach
Barings Law is preparing to bring a mass data-breach claim against the Ministry of Defence after the names of Afghans applying to relocate to the U.K. was inadvertently leaked, it was revealed when a ban that restricted reporting was lifted on Tuesday.
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July 15, 2025
Female Staffer Accuses Firm's Exec of Sexual Harassment
A female employee of a business advisory company has accused its director of sacking her because she rejected his sexual advances in his hotel room while the pair were on a business trip to France.
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July 15, 2025
Court Refuses To Rule Bali Villa Sale Breached Asset Freeze
A London court said Tuesday that it will not decide whether the wife of a former Russian bank executive had committed contempt of court by selling her villa in Bali 10 days before an asset freeze against her was lifted.
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July 14, 2025
London Judge Nixes Jurisdictional Award In Gas Plant Feud
An English judge on Monday vacated an International Chamber of Commerce tribunal's award finding it has jurisdiction in a dispute stemming from a gas processing plant construction project for Saudi Aramco, saying the matter belongs before a London-seated ad hoc tribunal.
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July 14, 2025
UAE Prisoner Voluntarily Drops Suit Against Ex-Dechert GC
A Jordanian lawyer imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates has permanently dropped a Philadelphia civil suit seeking discovery against Dechert LLP's former general counsel in the U.S. over what the law firm's leadership knew of alleged human rights abuses committed by a former partner.
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July 14, 2025
Insurance Co. Accuses Ex-CEO Of Siphoning £19M At Trial
An insurance company accused its former chief executive and a director at the start of a London trial on Monday of misappropriating millions of pounds by siphoning money from the business for his own financial benefit.
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July 14, 2025
Solicitor Sues Law Firm £423K For Misusing Estate Proceeds
The solicitor for a deceased individual's estate has sued a law firm for £423,000 ($568,000), accusing it of using money from the sale of a house from the estate to carry out sham property purchases.
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July 14, 2025
Ladbrokes Loses Appeal Against Disability Bias Ruling
An appellate tribunal on Monday refused to overturn a decision that Ladbrokes forced a manager with disabilities to resign after declining to up her contract from 17 to 30 hours a week despite available shifts.
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July 14, 2025
Howden Says Rival's Exodus Was Inevitable In Poaching Case
Howden has rejected claims that it plotted to damage rival Acquinex when it decimated its warranty and indemnity team by poaching 32 employees in its own underwriting division, telling a London court the employees would have left anyway.
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July 14, 2025
Clifford Chance Denies Blame For SocGen's $483M Gold Loss
Clifford Chance LLP has denied breaching any duty to Société Générale SA with its advice on a $483 million gold bullion dispute, telling a London court that the blame for the French bank's failed claim lies elsewhere.
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July 14, 2025
Lender Denies Helping Pharma Boss Secure Secret £6M Loan
A business lender has denied working with the now-former chief executive officer of an online pharmacy to take out about £6.1 million ($8.2 million) in unauthorized loans under the company's name without the knowledge of investors or board members.
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July 14, 2025
Wealth Manager Sues For £4.5M Over Failed Investment Deal
A Swiss wealth manager has sued a U.K. company for 5 million Swiss francs ($6.3 million), saying that it failed to return its investment after a share purchase deal went sideways.
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July 14, 2025
Holiday Club To Pay Worker £37K After 'Scandalous' Conduct
A former site manager at a holiday park in southeast England has won almost £37,000 ($50,000) in compensation after an employment tribunal chastised its owner for what it called among the "most egregious" examples of unreasonable litigation conduct.
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July 14, 2025
Deezer Sues For €12M Over Hacked Data Sold On Dark Web
Deezer has hit a marketing software business with a claim of almost €12 million ($14 million) at a London court, alleging that the technology company negligently handled users' data that was eventually hacked and sold on the dark web.
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July 11, 2025
Court Says Olympic Runner Treated Unfairly In Testing Appeal
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.
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July 11, 2025
Moderna Fights Pfizer's 'Impossible' MRNA Patent Attack
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.
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July 11, 2025
Celebs Cannot Use Pattern To Prove Mail Claims, Judge Says
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.
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July 11, 2025
Entrepreneur Sues Rights Advocate Over $1B Corruption Claim
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.
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July 11, 2025
Brand Owner Says Violated Licensee Agreement Is Now Void
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.
Expert Analysis
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Saxon Woods Ruling Tightens Rules On Director Good Faith
The recent Court of Appeal judgment in Saxon Woods v. Costa departs from the High Court's ruling, clarifying that a director's sincere belief they have acted in the company’s best interests is not sufficient to satisfy the statutory requirement to act in good faith, say lawyers at Covington.
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ICSID Annulment Proceedings Carry High Stakes For System
The annulment proceedings brought by Freeport-McMoRan before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, seeking to redress a glaring and prejudicial oversight in its arbitral award against Peru, are significant for delimiting the boundaries of procedural fairness within the ICSID's annulment framework, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.
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Key Takeaways As EU And UK Impose New Russia Sanctions
The European Union and U.K.’s new sanctions on Russia, designating increasing numbers of non-Russian companies in the defense and shipping sectors, mean that organizations must examine from the outset whether a transaction has any nexus with the EU or the U.K., say lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell.
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Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Prestige's Jurisprudential Legacy
The U.K. Supreme Court's recent denial of appeal ended Spain's decades-long quest to enforce an €855 million arbitral judgment against a London insurer, throwing into stark relief the increasingly complex relationship between arbitral sovereignty, foreign state immunity and the shifting terrain of post-Brexit private international law, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.
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German Ruling Further Restrains Intra-EU Bilateral Arbitration
The German Federal Court of Justice recently issued a notable ruling that pushes the invalidation of intra-European Union bilateral investment treaty arbitration into the realm of stand-alone cost decisions, strengthening the EU's legal framework while increasing uncertainty for investors in the region, say attorneys at Linklaters.
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High Court Ruling Shows Firm Stance On Procedural Integrity
The recent High Court decision in Qatar Investment v. Phoenix Ancient Art demonstrates its zero tolerance of procedural failure, serving as a reminder that the financial burden associated with document disclosure will not excuse a party’s failure to comply with court orders, say lawyers at Quillon Law.
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A Shifting Landscape Of Greater Scrutiny After Data Breaches
Recent Information Commissioner's Office fines for personal data breaches and a Home Office consultation signal a shift in the U.K. regulatory landscape, and with an increase in mass actions and resulting exposure, organizations should prepare for potential third-party claims from those incurring consequential losses, say lawyers at Atheria.
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Decoding Arbitral Disputes: An Update On ICSID Annulment
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes' recent decision in Peteris Pildegovics and SIA North Star v. Kingdom of Norway offers a reasoned and principled contribution to annulment jurisprudence, effectively balancing the competing imperatives of fairness, finality and institutional coherence, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.
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UK Data Disputes Could Become Competition Class Actions
While mass data protection claims have chafed against the procedural restrictions that apply to class actions under U.K. law, it is possible these claims will be brought into the fold of the rapidly growing Competition Appeal Tribunal scene, says Aislinn Kelly-Lyth at Blackstone Chambers.
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Opinion
UK Court Of Appeal's FRAND Ruling Is Troubling
The U.K. Court of Appeal's recent decision in Optis v. Apple disregards a lower court's extensive factual findings and contradicts its own precedent regarding fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms for cellular patents, says Enrico Bonadio at the University of London.
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What Santander Fraud Ruling Means For UK Banking Sector
A London court's recent judgment in Santander v. CCP Graduate School held that a bank does not owe any duty to third-party victims of authorized push payment fraud, reaffirming the steps banks are already taking to protect their own customers from sophisticated fraud mechanisms, say lawyers at Charles Russell.
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Arbitral Ruling In EU Fisheries Clash Clarifies Post-Brexit Pact
The Permanent Court of Arbitration's recent ruling marks a pivotal moment in the evolving jurisprudence surrounding the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, concluded between the U.K. and the EU after Brexit, and sets an important precedent for interpretation and enforcement of trade and environment clauses in cross-border disputes, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.
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Apple Ruling Provides Clarity For UK Litigation Funders
The Court of Appeal's recent Gutmann v. Apple decision that litigation funders can take a fee before class action members are paid helps relieve the concerns of insufficient funding returns that followed news of a broad sector review and a key high court ruling, says Matthew Lo at Exton Advisors.
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Expect Complex Ruling From UK Justices In Car Dealer Case
While recent arguments before the U.K. Supreme Court in a consumer test case on motor finance commissions reveal the court’s take on several points argued, application of the upcoming decision will be both nuanced and fact-sensitive, so market participants wishing to prepare do not have a simple task, says Tom Grodecki at Cadwalader.
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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.