Commercial Litigation UK

  • July 09, 2025

    Sweden Wins €60M Pension Fraud Case Against Financier

    A London court has ruled that a financier defrauded the Swedish government by setting up an illegitimate investment fund that took €60.7 million ($71.1 million) from savers' pension accounts.

  • July 09, 2025

    Car Brake Maker Accuses Rival Of Copying Design

    A manufacturer of suspension and brake systems for cars has sued a rival in a London court for patent infringement, saying its brake calipers were disassembled and re-engineered with new components.

  • July 09, 2025

    Insurers Argue $37M Liability Void Over Director's Charges

    Six insurers told an appeals court Wednesday they should not have to pay $37 million to the owners of a cargo ship seized by the Indonesian navy because the policy was rendered void by the owner's failure to disclose that its director faced criminal charges.

  • July 09, 2025

    British Airways Pensions Biz Unfairly Sacked Investment Exec

    An employment tribunal has ruled that British Airways' pensions unit botched an investigation into a senior investment specialist over a confidential email he sent to himself during a workplace restructuring dispute, even though the employee was partly responsible for his ultimate dismissal.

  • July 09, 2025

    Ship Buyers Fight $5M Deposit Debt Ruling At UK Top Court

    Buyers in a collapsed tanker deal fought on Wednesday to escape an almost $5 million debt for failing to facilitate a deposit payment, telling Britain's top court that the correct remedy is damages, and they should pay nothing because there was no loss.

  • July 09, 2025

    Target Misses Bull's-Eye TM Bid At EU Court

    U.S. retail giant Target lost a trademark over its red bull's-eye logo on Wednesday after a European Union court ruled that the mark was too banal to be protected as it displayed only simple geometric shapes.

  • July 09, 2025

    Taxi Drivers Win Challenge Over 'Oppressive' Data Request

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has sided with a group of more than 500 gig economy drivers and reduced the amount of data they must hand over in their pay dispute with taxi company Veezu.

  • July 08, 2025

    Ex-BofA Exec Sues For Bias Over Workplace Affair Fallout

    A former Merrill Lynch director has failed to keep his name out of tribunal proceedings against the bank in his claim alleging he was unfairly dismissed and discriminated against following a workplace relationship that ended in acrimony.

  • July 08, 2025

    Appeal Win Gives Certainty To UK Class Action Funding

    The Court of Appeal's decision to endorse the validity of litigation-financing agreements devised to sidestep a U.K. Supreme Court ruling that upended class action funding provides certainty over what is allowed, but lawyers remain wary that further legislative changes are likely.

  • July 08, 2025

    Oil Co. Says Nigeria Shouldn't Profit From £44M Legal Bill

    An oil and gas company at the center of a fraud scandal arising from an $11 billion arbitration award issued against Nigeria urged the U.K.'s highest court Tuesday to change the currency for Nigeria's legal costs, arguing that the country would unjustly benefit from the depreciation of its own currency.

  • July 08, 2025

    Drugmaker Wants £46M For MSD's Use Of 'Merck' In UK

    German drugmaker Merck KGaA asked a London court Tuesday to force U.S.-based Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC to pay £46 million ($62 million) for breaching an order by using the "Merck" name in the U.K.

  • July 08, 2025

    Wimbledon's £200M Expansion Plan Faces Legal Challenge

    Campaigners challenging a £200 million ($271 million) plan to expand the Wimbledon tennis ground told a court Tuesday that the London local authority unlawfully approved the 38-court expansion project.

  • July 08, 2025

    Ryanair Loses Appeal Over Ex-Pilot's Agency Worker Status

    A London appeals court rejected Ryanair's latest attempt on Tuesday to block a claim from a former contracted pilot for equal treatment with directly employed pilots, upholding a ruling that he held agency worker status at the airline.

  • July 08, 2025

    Ex-Axiom Chief Ordered To Pay £5M SRA Intervention Costs

    A London court ordered the former chief of Axiom Ince Ltd. to pay the multimillion-pound cost of regulatory intervention into the firm on Tuesday after concluding that he was involved with its misuse of £65 million ($88 million) of its clients' cash.

  • July 08, 2025

    Tech Firm Says Ex-VP Was Not Employee In £2.5M Claim

    A technology company has hit back at a £2.5 million ($3.4 million) claim brought by its former chief product officer, denying that it ever employed the executive and insisting she was never promised a stake in the business.

  • July 07, 2025

    Malaysia Info Demand Gets Green Light In $14.9B Dispute

    A Delaware judge has declined to nix an order allowing units of Malaysia's national energy company to seek discovery relating to a third-party funding deal that led to a $14.9 billion arbitral award issued against Kuala Lumpur following a territorial dispute stemming from a 19th-century land deal.

  • July 07, 2025

    Meat Tycoon Relative Loses $402M Trust Fight In Top Court

    A relative of a 19th-century meat tycoon on Monday lost her battle to reverse the transfer of $402 million out of a trust from which she benefited, with the highest court for some independent Commonwealth countries ruling that a trustee did not act unreasonably.

  • July 07, 2025

    Huawei Loses 2nd Bid To Move Patent Dispute To China

    Huawei couldn't convince a London judge to let a Chinese court handle its patent license dispute with MediaTek for a second time, as nothing had changed since its last request in December.

  • July 07, 2025

    Campaign Groups Fight For Full 'Dieselgate' Documents

    Automakers accused of fitting emissions-test cheating devices in their cars should be forced to remove redactions they have made to documents filed in litigation brought by U.K. motorists, two climate campaign organizations argued at a hearing on Monday.

  • July 07, 2025

    Law Firm Gets 'Vague' £4.6M Negligence Case Struck Out

    A London court struck out on Monday an energy company's £4.6 million ($6.3 million) claim against Benson Mazure LLP, because the law firm would have unreasonable difficulty understanding and responding to the "vague and confused" case.

  • July 07, 2025

    GlobalData Says Exec's £797K Case 'Not David And Goliath'

    GlobalData told a London court on Monday that a former director's claim that the business owes him £797,000 ($1.1 million) for refusing to let him exercise share options was not a case of "David and Goliath."

  • July 07, 2025

    IBM Rival Can't Appeal Reverse-Engineering Defeat

    A London appeals court has blocked a tech company's "kitchen sink" appeal against a ruling that it unlawfully reverse engineered IBM's software to help develop a competing product.

  • July 07, 2025

    TikTok Loses Appeal Over £12.7M Children's Data Fine

    TikTok has failed to overturn a £12.7 million ($17.3 million) fine imposed for misusing children's personal data, after a tribunal Monday rejected the argument that the processing of the data was for creative or artistic purposes.

  • July 07, 2025

    Funder Claims Developer Used Biz As Facade To Pocket £4M

    A litigation funder has alleged that a property developer owes it more than £3.8 million ($5.2 million) for pocketing his real estate business' money for nothing in return and operating his company as a facade to renovate properties he owns without taking on liability for the work.

  • July 07, 2025

    Rail Passengers Claim Just Fraction Of £25M Stagecoach Deal

     Train passengers have claimed only £216,000 ($295,000) in compensation from a multimillion-pound settlement with Stagecoach, the Competition Appeal Tribunal revealed on Monday as it said it would consider ordering a "substantial payment to charity" from the unclaimed money.

Expert Analysis

  • UK Top Court Charts Limits Of Liability In Ship Explosion Case

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    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.

  • What Latest VC Model Document Revisions Offer UK Investors

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    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.

  • Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Precision In Jurisdiction Clauses

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    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.

  • What Age Bias Ruling Means For Law Firm Retirement Policies

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    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.

  • Acas Guide Shows How To Support Neurodiverse Employees

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    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.

  • UK's Arbitration Act Is More A Revision Than An Overhaul

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    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.

  • Google Win Illustrates Hurdles To Mass Data Privacy Claims

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    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.

  • How New EU Product Liability Directive Will Affect Tech And AI

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    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.

  • EU Hybrid Venue Ruling Doesn't Ensure Local Enforceability

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    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.

  • New CMA Powers Will Change Consumer Protection Regime

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    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.

  • A Look At Current Challenges In Whistleblowing Practice

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    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.

  • Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Fiscal Liability Vs. Int'l Investment

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    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.

  • How UK Supreme Court May Assess Russia Sanctions Cases

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    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.

  • How EU Digital Act Could Shape UK Technology Disputes

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    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.

  • How EU's Anticoercion Tool May Counter New US Tariffs

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    The never-before-used anticoercion instrument could allow the European Union to respond to the imposition of U.S. tariffs, potentially effective March 12, and gives EU companies a voice in the process as it provides for consultation with economic operators at different steps throughout the procedure, say lawyers at Crowell & Moring.

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