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October 30, 2026
Russia's VTB Bank on Friday lost its challenge against changes to a U.K. sanctions license affecting its claim for more than £205 million ($275 million) in the administration of its British subsidiary, although an appeals court left open how much the lender may ultimately recover.
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October 30, 2026
A judge ruled on Friday that Aviva Insurance does not have to pay out to a group of University of Oxford colleges that claimed to have lost £62 million ($83 million) in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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October 30, 2026
The past week in London has seen British-Georgian business executive George Howard Richmond file a claim against high-profile individuals including former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and the Mittal family, a DP World subsidiary file the latest claim in ongoing litigation with the Republic of Djibouti, and the U.S. government bring a claim against the owners of cargo ship M.S. Solong.
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October 30, 2026
Russian ice hockey teams can now compete in tournaments organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has ruled.
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October 30, 2026
From landlord-tenant disputes to planning objections and infrastructure judicial reviews, use of generative AI is causing a surge in lengthy, often meritless challenges that real-estate lawyers say are clogging up systems, straining budgets and confusing valid grievances with hallucinated law.
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October 30, 2026
Gateley PLC has hit back against a £820,000 ($1.1 million) negligence claim, denying that it's liable for any advice provided on a residential property investment company's pension program by its predecessor.
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October 30, 2026
Mishcon de Reya has admitted failing to properly advise a property investor over a requirement to give a valid right of refusal to tenants, but denied that its negligence caused him losses of £1.4 million ($1.8 million).
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October 30, 2026
Lawyers in England and Wales should not need to declare when they have used artificial intelligence to help prepare their court filings, the Civil Justice Council has recommended.
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October 30, 2026
Spanish airline Volotea has been granted protection from creditors' actions within England and Wales while it negotiates a restructuring plan to avoid insolvency.
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October 29, 2026
A Frasers Group unit lost its bid to overturn assessments that it owed value-added tax of £5.6 million ($7.4 million) when a London court ruled that the company's marketing photos were linked to taxable retail sales and consumer credit.
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October 29, 2026
A Wyoming federal judge threatened sanctions against an exiled U.K. financial services provider who is suing a tax attorney for defamation, noting the businessman's filings indicate the use of artificial intelligence and potential perjury regarding his residency status.
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October 29, 2026
Discount retailer Poundland indicated Thursday that it plans to appoint administrators after it said it was unable to find an acceptable buyer following years of financial troubles.
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October 29, 2026
Brassware maker Armac Martin has accused a rival of selling knockoffs and falsely claiming a similar British manufacturing heritage to cash in on the reputation of Armac's 97-year-old family business, arguing that shoppers would struggle to tell their branding apart.
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October 29, 2026
The British arm of a Chinese construction equipment giant told a London tribunal Thursday that the U.K.'s trade regulator had been irrational to include battery-electric excavators in an antidumping probe into Chinese imports of the heavy construction equipment.
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October 29, 2026
Pogust Goodhead cannot hide behind internal client turmoil to avoid paying back an £84 million ($112 million) loan, one of the firm's biggest funders has told a London court.
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October 29, 2026
Insurers in London have gained greater protection against claimants that ignore U.K. arbitration clauses and sue them in foreign courts, after a landmark ruling by the U.K. Supreme Court on Wednesday.
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October 29, 2026
Property company Lendlease has sued developer Berkeley Group, arguing it should be held liable for fire defect repairs costing £95 million ($127 million) to 20 buildings developed by Berkeley's subsidiary, now owned by Lendlease.
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October 29, 2026
Two former executives at oil trader Arcadia secured "very substantial" compensation Thursday for a decade-long asset freeze imposed over an unfounded fraud claim, although the award will likely fall short of the more than $1.1 billion they sought.
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October 29, 2026
Two directors of an investment firm have denied running a £55 million ($75 million) invoice fraud, telling a London court that the claim against them is based on missing documents and flawed calculations.
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October 29, 2026
A health insurance company has sued a digital healthcare subcontractor for more than £4 million ($5.3 million) alleging it breached a contract by capping access to virtual GP appointments and forcing the insurer to find alternative providers.
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October 28, 2026
Turkey is pressing a D.C. federal court to reject a magistrate judge's recommendation to enforce an arbitral award ordering it to pay some $1.47 billion in damages to Iraq, saying the judge wrongly analyzed the issue of interest and that the ultimate prevailing party still isn't clear.
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October 28, 2026
The moving of a roughly £513,000 ($684,000) loan a U.K. director owed his company to its parent holding company still counts as a release of the loan, a London court affirmed Wednesday, sticking the director with an additional £195,000 in income tax.
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October 28, 2026
Naming a well-known public figure accused of using his power to sexually abuse young women would be "a valuable contribution of public importance," lawyers for The Guardian and Independent Television News argued in a London court on Wednesday.
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October 28, 2026
Auto group Stellantis failed Wednesday to immediately strike out a claim brought by around 5,000 motorists outside the main "Dieselgate" litigation, as a London court gave them 21 days to serve detailed pleadings or face automatic dismissal.
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October 28, 2026
A prominent political donor and businessman argued at the start of a London trial Wednesday that the BBC had falsely accused him of being involved in corrupt business dealings in three different countries, saying the broadcaster's case that the allegations were true was "plainly not sufficient."