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June 18, 2025
William Hill Must Pay £68K To Exec Fired For Alleged Assault
An employment tribunal has ordered William Hill to pay £68,065 ($91,547) to an advertising executive it unfairly fired over a sexual harassment complaint, ruling that the betting giant ignored evidence showing he never put his fingers in a colleague's mouth.
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June 18, 2025
Intesa Sanpaolo Staffer Loses Bid For Reinstatement
An employee on secondment in London from Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo has lost his bid to be reinstated until his hearing for unfair dismissal, with an employment tribunal finding he is unlikely to win his substantive case and therefore not entitled to reinstatement in the interim.
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June 18, 2025
PE Firm Says Forfeiting Tycoon's €1.5M Investment Was Valid
A private equity firm has denied wrongfully forfeiting car tycoon Peter Waddell's €1.5 million ($1.7 million) investment in the company and alleged the move was "entirely reasonable," given he had failed to meet a request for money as part of the funding deal.
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June 18, 2025
Tesco Fights Ruling On Workers' Equal Pay Claim
Retail giant Tesco urged the Employment Appeal Tribunal to overturn findings in an ongoing equal pay-claim brought against it by female employees, saying a lower tribunal was wrong to use generic training materials and job descriptions in assessing whether certain roles are of equal value.
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June 18, 2025
Artist Defends 'Fishrot' Apology Spoof As Free Expression
An Icelandic artist urged a London appellate judge Wednesday to give him a chance to override a decision that he could not successfully defend against a claim from the country's largest seafood company alleging he created a spoof website to publish a false apology over a bribery scandal.
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June 18, 2025
EU Court Affirms Decision To Publicize Pesticide Ingredients
An agrochemical company lost its appeal at a European court on Wednesday to block the European Food Safety Authority from releasing a confidential list of ingredients in one of its pesticides in the interest of public knowledge.
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June 18, 2025
Sellafield Denies Breach In £18M Nuclear Diving Contract Case
A British nuclear site management company has hit back at claims that it breached procurement rules when it rejected a bid from a U.S. business for an £18 million ($24 million) contract for diving services, denying that it breached transparency requirements.
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June 18, 2025
US Biotech Biz Says Rival's Gene Editing Patent Is Invalid
A U.S. biotech company and two manufacturers have denied they infringed a South Korean rival's gene-editing patent, urging a London court to declare the patent invalid.
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June 17, 2025
Ex-Triton Exec Beats Post-Brexit Appeal To Nix Bias Claim
An appellate tribunal has upheld a ruling that Brexit did not curtail the ability of a former Triton Partners investment adviser to bring discrimination claims against the Swedish private equity firm's executives, allowing him to pursue his claim in the U.K.
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June 17, 2025
Ex-Steel Exec Fights £574K Debt, Claims Unlawful Firing
The former managing director of a British steel supplier has denied that he had to pay back £574,237 ($775,471) as part of a "transaction bonus," asking a London judge to reinstate him even as he claimed the firm ignored his bullying concerns.
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June 17, 2025
EasyGroup Appeals TM Loss To 'Easy Live' Auction Co.
U.K. venture capital conglomerate easyGroup on Tuesday urged a London appellate court to overturn the rejection of its trademark infringement and revocation case against an online auction services provider, arguing a lower court judge had wrongly disregarded evidence of confusion among consumers.
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June 17, 2025
Ex-Georgian PM Says Credit Suisse Ignored £600M Fraud
Georgia's former prime minister told a U.K. appeals court Tuesday that Credit Suisse Life cannot skirt liability for his losses from an employee's fraud scheme, saying the life insurer had obligations to policyholders to ensure their assets were being managed responsibly.
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June 17, 2025
Geradin Partners Hires Top Lawyers For German Expansion
Geradin Partners said Tuesday that it has hired five lawyers from the law firms Hausfeld and Osborne Clarke as it prepares to launch in Germany later this year.
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June 17, 2025
Hat Co. Claims Rival's Dupes Caused 'Greenwashing' Gripe
A hat brand has accused a rival of selling counterfeit headgear of an inferior quality and hurting its environmentally friendly brand, as consumers were leaving negative reviews accusing it of "greenwashing."
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June 17, 2025
Ackroyd Denies A Duty To Warn On Failed £4.5M Property Deal
Ackroyd Legal has denied failing to warn a Qatari executive and his sister about a property deal that they said cost them £4.5 million ($6.1 million), arguing that it was not obliged to advise them on the "prudency" of the transaction.
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June 17, 2025
HMRC Challenges Tax Treatment Of Partnership Awards
HM Revenue & Customs told the U.K. Supreme Court on Tuesday that partnership awards allocated to a corporate entity and then distributed to partners should be taxed as if they were allocated to individual members.
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June 17, 2025
Spiritual Org. Says Publisher's Amazon Sales Infringed IP
A spiritual society has accused a book publisher of infringing its copyright over a set of letters from the 1940s, telling a London court that it did not have the right to sell copies of the works on Amazon.
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June 17, 2025
Cuban Bank Hit Again With Offshore Fund's €71M Debt Claim
A Cayman Islands fund has alleged that the former central bank of Cuba owes sovereign debt and interest worth almost €71 million ($82 million) from loans taken in the 1980s, its latest move after a court barred it from suing the Caribbean state itself.
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June 24, 2025
Squire Patton Taps V&E For Partner On Construction Team
Squire Patton Boggs LLP has hired construction and engineering specialist Ciaran Williams as a partner in its litigation practice, as the firm continues to bulk up its global construction team.
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June 16, 2025
Ex-Metro Bank Execs Win Bid To Cut Fines Over Listing Error
An appellate tribunal on Monday reduced financial penalties for two former Metro Bank executives, confirming the bank breached listing rules when it published misleading financial statements in 2018 but finding the executives were honest with the tribunal about the £900 million ($1.2 billion) reporting scandal.
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June 16, 2025
Bratz Maker Beats Rival's £90M Claim Despite Antitrust Breach
MGA Entertainment Inc., the company behind Bratz dolls, owes no compensation to a rival despite running a campaign of "undeniable" antitrust violations and making unjustified threats of patent infringement litigation, a London judge said Monday.
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June 16, 2025
Mozambique Wins Bid To Add Safa Heirs In $1.9B Dispute
A London judge ruled Monday that Mozambique should be allowed to add the heirs of shipbuilding magnate Iskandar Safa to the government's claim over a bribery scheme as it seeks to enforce a $1.9 billion damages award.
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June 16, 2025
Taxi Payment Business Accuses Ex-Director Of Copying App
A company providing card payment services to taxi drivers has accused a former director of breaching his duties and infringing its copyright by poaching senior developers to set up a rival payment system.
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June 16, 2025
Ousted Food Biz Exec Wins Claim Over Cousin's Spying
An employment tribunal has upheld a former food company director's claim that his cousin, a co-director of the family-run business, subjected him to covert surveillance, poor communication and deliberate exclusion that forced his resignation.
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June 16, 2025
Investors Can Pursue Claim Over Essity Tissue Biz Sale
A London court on Monday cleared the path for a group of investment companies to pursue their claim that Swedish health and hygiene conglomerate Essity defaulted on bond notes when it sold its controlling stake in a Chinese tissue company.
Expert Analysis
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Trends, Tips From 7 Years Of EPO Antibody Patent Appeals
Recent years of European Patent Office decisions reveal some surprising differences between appeals involving therapeutic antibody patents and those for other technologies, offering useful insight into this developing area of European case law for future antibody patent applicants, say Alex Epstein and Jane Evenson at CMS.
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4 Takeaways From Biotech Patent Invalidity Ruling
The recent Patents Court decision in litigation between Advanced Cell Diagnostics and Molecular Instruments offers noteworthy commentary on issues related to experiments done in the ordinary course of business, joint importation, common general knowledge and mindset, and mosaicking for anticipation, say Nessa Khandaker and Darren Jiron at Finnegan.
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Why Reperforming Loan Securitization In UK And EU May Rise
The recently published new U.K. securitization rules will largely bring the U.K.’s nonperforming loan regime in line with the European Union, and together with the success of EU and U.K. banks in reducing loan ratios, reperforming securitizations may feature more prominently in relevant markets going forward, say lawyers at Morgan Lewis.
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What French Watchdog Ruling Means For M&A Landscape
Although ultimately dismissed due to lack of evidence, the French competition authority’s recent post-closing review of several nonreportable mergers is a landmark case that highlights the increased complexity of such transactions, and is further testament to the European competition authorities’ willingness to expand their toolkit to address below-threshold M&As, say lawyers at Cleary.
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How Life Science Companies Are Approaching UPC Opt-Outs
A look at recent data shows that one year after its launch, the European Union's Unified Patent Court is still seeing a high rate of opt-outs, including from large U.S.-based life science companies wary of this unpredictable court — and there are reasons this strategy should largely remain the same, say Sanjay Murthy and Christopher Tuinenga at McAndrews Held.
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New Directors' Code Of Conduct May Serve As Useful Guide
Although the Institute of Directors’ current proposal for a voluntary code of conduct is strongly supported by its members, it must be balanced against the statutory requirement for directors to promote their company’s success, and the risk of claims by shareholders if their decisions are influenced by wider social considerations, says Matthew Watson at RPC.
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Lego Ruling Builds Understanding Of Design Exam Process
In Lego v. Guangdong Loongon, the European Union Intellectual Property Office recently invalidated a registered design for a toy figure, offering an illustrative guide to assessing the individual character of a design in relation to a preexisting design, says Christoph Moeller at Mewburn Ellis.
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Contractual Drafting Takeaways From Force Majeure Ruling
Lawyers at Cleary discuss the U.K. Supreme Court's recent judgment RTI v. MUR Shipping and its important implications, including how the court approached the apparent tension between certainty and commercial pragmatism, and considerations for the drafting of force majeure clauses going forward.
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Behind The Stagecoach Boundary Fare Dispute Settlement
The Competition Appeal Tribunal's recent rail network boundary fare settlement offers group action practitioners some much-needed guidance as it reduces the number of remaining parties' five-year dispute from two to one, says Mohsin Patel at Factor Risk Management.
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The Unified Patent Court: What We Learned In Year 1
The Unified Patent Court celebrated its first anniversary this month, and while questions remain as we wait for the first decisions on the merits, a multitude of decisions and orders regarding provisional measures and procedural aspects have provided valuable insights already, says Antje Brambrink at Finnegan.
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Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Spanish Judicial Oversight
The recent conviction of arbitrator Gonzalo Stampa underscores the critical importance of judicial authority in the realm of international arbitration in Spain, and emphasizes that arbitrators must respect the procedural frameworks established by Spanish national courts, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray’s Inn.
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F1 Driver AI Case Sheds Light On Winning Tactics In IP Suits
A German court recently awarded damages to former F1 driver Michael Schumacher's family in an artificial intelligence dispute over the unlicensed use of his image, illustrating how athletes are using the law to protect their brands, and setting a precedent in other AI-generated image rights cases, William Bowyer at Lawrence Stephens.
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High Court Ruling Sheds Light On Targets For Judicial Review
The High Court's recent dismissal of iDealing.com's judicial review application for service complaint decisions by the Financial Ombudsman Service highlights the difficulty of distinguishing what decisions are amenable to judicial review, demonstrating that those made by statutory bodies may not always be genuine targets, say Alexander Fawke, Tara Janus and Bam Thomas at Linklaters.
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Appeal Ruling Clarifies 3rd-Party Contract Breach Liability
The Court of Appeal's recent decision in Northamber v. Genee World serves as a warning to parties that they may be held liable for inducing another party to breach a contract, even if that party was a willing participant, say Neil Blake, Maura McIntosh and Jennifer O'Brien at HSL.
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CPR Proposal Affirms The Emphasis On Early Mediation
While the recent proposal to incorporate mandatory alternative dispute resolution into the Civil Procedure Rules following a 2023 appeal decision would not lead to seismic change, given current practice, it signals a shift in how litigation should be pursued toward out-of-court solutions, say Heather Welham and Cyra Roshan at Foot Anstey.