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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.
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July 11, 2025
Deceased Financiers' Assets Tapped To Cover Thai Bank Debt
The liquidators of a collapsed Thai lender can be paid from the English assets of two deceased financiers convicted over an embezzlement scheme, after a judge held Friday the funds can go to partially cover a judgment debt totaling £60 million ($81 million).
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July 11, 2025
Wise Payments' TM Infringement Case Largely Backfires
Wise Payments has partly succeeded in its infringement claims against With Wise, but its rival has managed to narrow down the scope of goods it can market with "Wise" after a London judge found it never intended to sell them.
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July 11, 2025
Ex-CFO Can't Dodge Toymaker's £288K Costs
A judge ruled Friday that a toymaker's former chief financial officer must pay nearly £290,000 ($391,772) in costs or face the collapse of his claim against the company, after he failed to follow court orders and continued to bring "vexatious" claims.
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July 11, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen HS2 hit with a defamation claim by two ex-employees who blew the whistle on alleged under-reporting of costs, Craig Wright and nChain face legal action brought by its former chief financial officer over a fraud scheme, and pro-footballer Axel Tuanzebe bring a clinical negligence claim against his former club Manchester United F.C. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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July 11, 2025
Student Letting Agency Claims Theft Of Copyrighted Photos
A student flat letting agency has accused a rival and its director of stealing and watermarking its own copyrighted images to advertise apartments in Leicester, which he later allegedly admitted to in a recorded call.
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July 11, 2025
Royal Mail To Pay £13K For Neglecting Worker's Career Plan
A Royal Mail staffer has won more than £13,000 ($18,000) in her Employment Tribunal case against the company after a judge concluded that a boss failed to help her professional development because she sued the business 10 years earlier.
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July 11, 2025
Ex-Insurance CEO's Wife Can't Ax £15M Asset Freeze
A London appeals court upheld a £15 million ($20.3 million) asset freeze on Friday against the wife of a former insurance company executive who is accused of cashing in on money her husband siphoned off from the business.
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July 11, 2025
Staley Tribunal Decision Could Fuel Challenges To FCA Fines
A landmark tribunal ruling that upheld the Financial Conduct Authority's ban of ex-Barclays CEO James "Jes" Staley from banking — but slashed his fine — could ultimately lead other executives with back-loaded pay packages to fight the watchdog's decisions, lawyers say.
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July 11, 2025
Phones4u Can't Revive Collusion Case Against UK Networks
The Court of Appeal dismissed Phones 4u's claims Friday that the U.K.'s biggest phone operators colluded to drive the retailer out of business, upholding findings that there was no evidence of anticompetitive behavior between the networks.
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July 10, 2025
Pfizer Takes Aim At Moderna's Leftover MRNA Protections
Pfizer asked an appeals court Thursday to revoke surplus patent protections underpinning rival Moderna's mRNA vaccine after getting a key patent tossed.
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July 10, 2025
Buyer Contests Ruling On $1.85M Award In Botched Ship Sale
A shipping company told the Court of Appeal on Thursday that it should be entitled to a $1.85 million award arising from the botched purchase of a vessel, arguing it is owed damages for prospective losses.
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July 10, 2025
Ex-Union Official Argues Bias Risk Misjudged In Appeal
A former trade union official argued Thursday that a decision ruling his expulsion was fair incorrectly considered whether there was a risk that the chair of a disciplinary panel was biased against him, rather than whether there was a risk of "the possibility of bias."
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July 10, 2025
Rusal Can Serve Claim On Abramovich Via Oligarch's Lawyers
A London judge on Thursday approved Russian aluminum giant Rusal to serve a claim on Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich via his lawyers over alleged breaches of an agreement setting out the governance of a Russian mining company.
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July 10, 2025
Housing Co. Blames £29M Loss On Flawed Project Pricing
A housing association has alleged that a construction consultancy owes it £28.8 million ($39 million) after providing significantly underpriced estimates for the building costs of a London property development that shouldn't have gone ahead.
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July 10, 2025
Firm Denies Giving Ex-Pandora Chief Negligent Tax Advice
A law firm has denied giving former Pandora boss Peter Andersen negligent tax advice that saddled him and the jeweler with a £3.3 million ($4.5 million) tax bill because of Andersen's pension trust.
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July 10, 2025
BMW Unfairly Fired Worker Accused Of Faking Back Pain
BMW's decision to sack a factory worker accused of faking his back condition to claim sick pay was unfair and discriminatory, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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July 09, 2025
Human Rights Court Denounces Russia's Actions In Ukraine
The European Court of Human Rights unanimously held on Wednesday that Russia is accountable for "widespread and flagrant" abuses of human rights arising from the conflict in Ukraine since 2014, including the downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine that July.
Expert Analysis
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UK Trademark Law May Further Diverge From EU Standards
The recently enacted Retained EU Law Act, which removes the principle of EU law supremacy, offers a path for U.K. trademark law to distance itself even further from EU precedent — beyond the existing differences between the two trademark examination processes, say David Kemp and Michael Shaw at Marks & Clerk.
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Clarity Is Central Theme In FCA's Greenwashing Guidance
Recent Financial Conduct Authority guidance for complying with the U.K. regulator's anti-greenwashing rule sends an overarching message that sustainability claims must be clear, accurate and capable of being substantiated, say lawyers at Cadwalader.
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How Clinical Trials Affect Patentability In US And Europe
A comparison of recent U.S. and European patent decisions — concerning the effect of disclosures in clinical trials on the patentability of products — offers guidance on good practice for companies dealing with public use issues and prior art documents in these commercially important jurisdictions, say lawyers at Finnegan.
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ECHR Ruling May Pave Path For A UK Climate Damage Tort
In light of case law on the interaction between human rights law and common law, the European Court of Human Rights' recent ruling in KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland, finding the country at fault for failures to tackle global warming, could tip the scales toward extending English tort law to cover climate change-related losses, say lawyers at Cleary.
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Disciplinary Ruling Has Lessons For Lawyers On Social Media
A recent Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal judgment against a solicitor for online posts deemed antisemitic and offensive highlights the serious sanctions that can stem from conduct on social media and the importance of law firms' efforts to ensure that their employees behave properly, say Liz Pearson and Andrew Pavlovic at CM Murray.
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The Art Of Corporate Apologies: Crafting An Effective Strategy
Public relations challenges often stop companies from apologizing amid alleged wrongdoing, but a recent U.K. government consultation seeks to make this easier, highlighting the importance of corporate apologies and measures to help companies balance the benefits against the potential legal ramifications, says Dina Hudson at Byfield Consultancy.
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What UK Supreme Court Strike Ruling Means For Employers
Although the U.K. Supreme Court recently declared in Mercer v. Secretary of State that part of a trade union rule and employees' human rights were incompatible, the decision will presumably not affect employer engagement with collective bargaining, as most companies are already unlikely to rely on the rule as part of their broader industrial relations strategy, say lawyers at Baker McKenzie.
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Taking Stock Of The Latest Criminal Court Case Statistics
The latest quarterly statistics on the type and volume of cases processed through the criminal court illustrate the severity of the case backlog, highlighting the need for urgent and effective investment in the system, say Ernest Aduwa and Jessica Sarwat at Stokoe Partnership.
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Hugh Grant Case Raises Questions About Part 36 Offers
Actor Hugh Grant's recent decision to settle his privacy suit by accepting a so-called Part 36 offer from News Group — to avoid paying a larger sum in legal costs by proceeding to trial — illustrates how this legal mechanism can be used by parties to force settlements, raising questions about its tactical use and fairness, says Colin Campbell at Kain Knight.
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Accounting For Climate Change In Flexible Working Requests
Although the U.K. government's recent updates to the country's flexible working laws failed to include climate change as a factor for evaluating remote work requests, employers are not prohibited from considering the environmental benefits — or drawbacks — of an employee's request to work remotely, say Jonathan Carr and Gemma Taylor at Lewis Silkin.
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Opinion
New Property Category Not Needed To Regulate Digital Assets
The U.K. Law Commission's exploration of whether to create a third category of property for digital assets is derived from a misreading of historical case law, and would not be helpful in resolving any questions surrounding digital assets, says Duncan Sheehan at the University of Leeds.
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Employer Lessons From Red Bull's Misconduct Investigation
Red Bull’s recent handling of a high-profile investigation into team principal Christian Horner’s alleged misconduct toward a colleague serves as a reminder of the importance of thorough internal grievance and disciplinary processes, and offers lessons for employers hoping to minimize media attention, say Charlotte Smith and Adam Melling at Walker Morris.
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Breaking Down The EPO's Revised Practice Guidelines
The European Patent Office's updated guidelines for examination recently took effect and include significant changes related to the priority right presumption, the concept of plausibility and artificial intelligence, providing invaluable insight on obtaining patents from the office, say lawyers at Finnegan.
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Pharma Remains A Key Focus Of EU Antitrust Enforcement
The recently published European Commission report on pharmaceutical sector competition law illustrates that effective enforcement of EU rules remains a matter of high priority for EU and national authorities, say lawyers at Dechert.
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Employment Tribunal Fee Proposal Raises Potential Issues
The proposal to reintroduce employment tribunal fees in a recent U.K. government consultation poses serious concerns over the right of access to justice, and will only act as a deterrent for claimants and appellants, says Yulia Fedorenko at CM Murray.