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April 24, 2025
Marine Co. Claims Axis Bank Misled It Into $21M Loan Scheme
A marine energy company has sued the Dubai branch of India's Axis Bank for $41.7 million, alleging that the lender misled it into participating in a loan to a shipping company secured against ships that were later sold without its knowledge.
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April 24, 2025
Digital Pharma Biz Sues Lender Over CEO Loan Collusion
A digital pharmacy company has accused a small business lender of knowingly working with its former CEO to funnel huge unauthorized loans into the firm, ignoring clear signs that the executive was acting dishonestly and beyond his powers.
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April 24, 2025
Peloton Discriminated Against Autistic Worker, Judge Says
Peloton discriminated against a member of staff with autism by requiring him to work in public areas at its London studio, a tribunal has said as it ruled that it would have been a reasonable adjustment by the fitness business to trial a back-office job for his disability.
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April 24, 2025
Scaffolding Biz Denies Infringing Rival's Safety Gate Patent
Brisko Scaffolding has denied claims from rival company National Tube Straightening Service that its "Stay Safe" gate infringed the rival's patent, and has also asked a London court to declare National Tube's patent invalid.
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April 24, 2025
Canfield Law Faces £4M Claim Over Alleged Property Fraud
A Hong Kong businessman has accused a London law firm in a High Court claim of failing to ask questions in connection with a high-value property deal, which he says facilitated a fraud that cost him more than £4 million ($5.3 million).
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April 23, 2025
Russia Seeks Stay In $5B Award Stemming From Loan Dispute
The Russian Federation asked a D.C. federal court to pause enforcing a $5 billion arbitration award compensating Yukos Capital for Russia's alleged expropriation of loans while litigation plays out in a U.S. Supreme Court case involving the jurisdiction of American courts over international arbitration agreements.
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April 23, 2025
Lawyers Face Misconduct Case For Letting Trainee Run Firm
The Solicitors Regulation Authority told a disciplinary tribunal on Wednesday that a group of lawyers were guilty of misconduct for allowing a trainee to buy and run a firm, leading to accounts rules breaches and a mishandled case.
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April 23, 2025
Qatari Exec Sues Ackroyd For £4.5M Over Botched Hotel Deal
A Qatari executive and his sister are suing their solicitor and his firm, Ackroyd Legal, after the lawyers allegedly failed to warn the siblings about a dangerous property deal and allowed them to lose up to £4.5 million ($6 million) when the deal soured.
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April 23, 2025
Aspiring Solicitor Defends 'Fraudster' Review Of Former Firm
An aspiring solicitor has hit back against a claim that she posted defamatory online reviews labeling her former boss a "fraudster," telling a London court that the reviews were true.
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April 23, 2025
UKIPO Not Corrupt For Rejecting Patent, Judge Rules
A judge has dismissed a case against the head of the U.K. Intellectual Property Office, finding that an inventor had waited years after his patent was rejected to bring baseless claims of malice and corruption.
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April 23, 2025
Trustee Sues Adviser Over Loan To Insolvent Housing Firm
A trustee is suing an adviser for alleged fraudulent misrepresentation over claims they caused a family trust to loan £5.75 million ($7.65 million) to a company the adviser partially owned, which later fell into insolvency.
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April 23, 2025
Visa Settles With Retailers After Swipe Fees Pass-On Trial
Lawyers representing more than 1,800 businesses said Wednesday that they have reached a settlement with Visa over allegations the company imposed excessively high credit card fees — weeks after the conclusion of a trial over whether overcharges were passed on.
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April 23, 2025
Heathrow Guard Unfairly Fired Over Alleged Racist Video
A tribunal has held that Heathrow Airport unfairly fired a security officer after he showed his colleague a video allegedly portraying India as dirty, ruling that his actions did not justify dismissal.
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April 22, 2025
Ship Co. Loses Seizure Bid In $12M Arbitration Dispute
A Mississippi federal judge on Tuesday nixed litigation by a U.S. shipping charter firm that asked to seize a deep-sea motor vessel as it looks to enforce more than $12 million of arbitral awards against a Mexican maritime company, ruling that the court lacks jurisdiction.
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April 22, 2025
Academic Says Journal Infringed Nanotube Paper Copyright
An American bioengineering researcher argued at the start of a London trial Tuesday that a scientific journal had wrongly published a paper related to carbon nanotubes without her consent, urging the judge to rule that it had infringed her copyright.
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April 22, 2025
Eye Doctor Can't Sue Over Unpaid Role Lost After Gaza Posts
A tribunal has blocked an eye doctor's discrimination claim after she lost her role with a professional body over allegedly antisemitic social media posts on the Israel-Hamas war, ruling that she was not an employee.
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April 22, 2025
Bouygues UK Unit Wins Appeal To Ax Age Bias Claim
A U.K. subsidiary of engineering firm Bouygues has won its bid to toss out an age discrimination claim brought by a former employee, with an appeal tribunal ruling that the ex-worker brought the claim too late without good reason.
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April 22, 2025
London Council Seeks £7M Over Leisure Center Blaze
A London local authority has sued a leisure center operator and a construction company for £7.4 million ($9.9 million), arguing that inadequate fire safety measures led to a blaze in the center's sauna facilities.
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April 22, 2025
Schneider To Pay £35K For Racist Treatment Of Ex-Staffer
An employment tribunal has ruled that Schneider Electric must pay £35,109 ($47,000) to a Black employee who had been set up to fail by his bosses because they preferred a white woman for the job.
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April 22, 2025
Investment Biz Denies Liability In £12M Property Loan Dispute
An investment company has hit back at a fund's £11.8 million ($15.8 million) High Court claim alleging that it caused the fund to lend money for property developments that were likely to fail.
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April 22, 2025
TUI Faces More Claims Over Gastric Illness Outbreak
More than 100 holidaymakers have sued package holiday company TUI, alleging that they suffered gastric illnesses because of unhygienic conditions in a Cape Verde hotel, the latest in a string of similar claims brought by Irwin Mitchell LLP.
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April 22, 2025
Nyetimber Sues Distillery In 'Product Of England' TM Row
English sparkling winemaker Nyetimber has hit a Devon distillery with a claim for trademark infringement, accusing the gin maker of benefiting from its established reputation by copying the wine producer's "Product of England" branding on its bottles and labels.
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April 22, 2025
Employers Must Answer Tribunal Claims Via Portal, Not Email
Employers and their lawyers will have to respond to claims brought by workers at the Employment Tribunal through new online portals rather than email, according to new rules coming into force in May.
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April 18, 2025
Russia Loses Bid To Nix $219M Award Enforcement Suit
Russia must face litigation filed by a subsidiary of one of Ukraine's largest privately owned energy distributors to enforce a $219 million arbitral award it won after its Crimean assets were seized, after a D.C. federal judge on Thursday rejected the country's sovereign immunity defenses.
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April 17, 2025
UK Says NY Convention Doesn't Kill Sovereign Immunity
Ratifying the New York Convention isn't enough to strip away a state's right to plead sovereign immunity in a later dispute over a contract that might be subject to the convention's rules, a London court has ruled.
Expert Analysis
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EU Rejection Of Booking.com Deal Veers From Past Practice
The European Commission's recent prohibition of Booking's purchase of Etraveli based on ecosystem theories of harm reveals a lower bar for prohibiting nonhorizontal mergers, and may mean increased merger scrutiny for companies with entrenched market positions in digital markets, say lawyers at Linklaters.
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PPI Ruling Spells Trouble For Financial Services Firms
The Supreme Court's recent decision in Canada Square v. Potter, which found that the claimant's missold payment protection insurance claim was not time-barred, is bad news for affected financial services firms, as there is now certainty over the law on the postponement of limitation periods, rendering hidden commission claims viable, say Ian Skinner and Chris Webber at Squire Patton.
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UPC Decision Highlights Key Security Costs Questions
While the Unified Patent Court recently ordered NanoString to pay €300,000 as security for Harvard's legal costs in a revocation action dispute, the decision highlights that the outcome of a security for costs application will be highly fact-dependent and that respondents should prepare to set out their financial position in detail, says Tom Brazier at EIP.
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Extradition Ruling Hints At Ways Around High Burden Of Proof
The U.K. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Popoviciu v. Curtea De Apel Bucharest confirmed that, in a conviction extradition case, the requested person must establish a flagrant violation of their right to a fair trial, but the court's reasoning reveals creative opportunities to test this boundary in the U.K. and Strasbourg alike, says Rebecca Hughes at Corker Binning.
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IP Ruling Could Pave Way For AI Patents In UK
If implemented by the U.K. Intellectual Property Office, the High Court's recent ruling in Emotional Perception AI v. Comptroller-General of Patents, holding that artificial neural networks can be patented, could be a first step to welcoming AI patents in the U.K., say Arnie Francis and Alexandra Brodie at Gowling.
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UK Review May Lead To Lower Investment Screening Burden
The government’s current review of national security investment screening rules aims to refine the scope of mandatory notifications required for unproblematic deals, and is likely to result in much-needed modifications to minimize the administrative burden on businesses and investors, say lawyers at Simpson Thacher.
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What Prince Harry Privacy Case May Mean For Media Ethics
An English High Court recently allowed the privacy case brought by Prince Harry and six other claimants against the Daily Mail publisher to proceed, which, if successful, could embolden other high-profile individuals to bring claims and lead to renewed calls for a judicial public inquiry into British press ethics, says Philippa Dempster at Freeths.
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How European Authorities Are Foiling Anti-Competitive Hiring
Lawyers at Squire Patton discuss key labor practice antitrust concerns and notable regulation trends in several European countries following recent enforcement actions brought by the European Commission and U.K. Competition and Markets Authority.
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When Can Bonuses Be Clawed Back?
The High Court's recent decision in Steel v. Spencer should remind employees that the contractual conditions surrounding bonuses and the timing of any resignation must be carefully considered, as in certain circumstances, bonuses can and are being successfully clawed back by employers, say Merrill April and Rachael Parker at CM Murray.
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The State Of UK Litigation Funding After Therium Ruling
The recent English High Court decision in Therium v. Bugsby Property has provided a glimmer of hope for litigation funders about how courts will interpret this summer's U.K. Supreme Court ruling that called funding agreements impermissible, suggesting that its adverse effects may be mitigated, says Daniel Williams at DWF Law.
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Trial By AI Could Be Closer Than You Think
In a known first for the U.K., a Court of Appeal justice recently admitted to using ChatGPT to write part of a judgment, highlighting how AI could make the legal system more efficient and enable the judicial process to record more accurate and fair decisions, say Charles Kuhn and Neide Lemos at Clyde & Co.
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Why It's Urgent For Pharma Cos. To Halt Counterfeit Meds
With over 10.5 million counterfeit medicines seized in the EU in 2023, it is vital both ethically and commercially that pharmaceutical companies take steps to protect against such infringements, including by invoking intellectual property rights protection, says Lars Karnøe at Potter Clarkson.
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Nix Of $11B Award Shows Limits Of Arbitral Process
A recent English High Court decision in Nigeria v. Process & Industrial Developments, overturning an arbitration award because it was obtained by fraud, is a reminder that arbitration decisions are ultimately still accountable to the courts, and that the relative simplicity of the arbitration rules is not necessarily always a benefit, say Robin Henry and Abbie Coleman at Collyer Bristow.
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How The Netherlands Became A Hub For EU Class Actions
As countries continue to implement the European Union Collective Redress Directive, the Netherlands — the country with the largest class action docket in the EU — provides a real-world example of what class and mass litigation may eventually look like in the bloc, say lawyers at Faegre Drinker and Houthoff.
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Navigating The Novel Challenges Facing The Legal Profession
The increasing prominence of ESG and AI have transformed the legal landscape and represent new opportunities for lawyers, but with evolving regulations and the ever-expanding reach of the Solicitors Regulation Authority, law firms should ensure that they have appropriate policies in place to adapt to these challenges, say Scott Ashby and Aimee Talbot at RPC.