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September 01, 2025
Top Commercial Dispute Rulings Of 2025: Midyear Report
England's courts have dealt in the first half of 2025 with a multibillion-dollar legal dispute with insurers over planes stuck in Russia, slashed the exposure faced by banks over motor finance claims and set out how the proceeds from a landmark class action against Mastercard should be distributed.
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September 01, 2025
Thaler Loses Fight To Claim Invention He'd Credited To His AI
An English court on Monday dismissed a bid by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to register divisional patent protections for an invention that he had previously claimed were created by his artificial intelligence system, DABUS.
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September 01, 2025
Dental Nurse Wins £25K In Colleague 'Bullying' Claim
A Scottish dental practice must pay a nurse £25,300 ($34,200) after it forced her to resign by removing her role and failing to deal with "bullying" by her colleagues, a tribunal has ruled.
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September 01, 2025
Millwall FC Faulted For Firing Coach Without Written Notice
A second-tier English football club breached the contract of a part-time coach by firing him by phone over his "dysfunctional relationship" with the head trainer, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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September 01, 2025
AA Patrol Workers Lose Fight Over Compulsory Overtime
A group of patrol workers from the AA, the motoring association, has stumbled in its battle over end-of-shift overtime as a judge ruled that an English tribunal did not have the power to resolve the contractual dispute.
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September 01, 2025
Utah Bank Sues Insurer For $10M Over Aircraft Engine 'Loss'
Bank of Utah has sued Russian insurance company AlfaStrakhovanie for up to $10 million over a jet engine allegedly stuck in Russia since the country's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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September 01, 2025
Bayer Can Keep Xarelto Profits Earned During Sales Ban
A London court ruled Monday that Bayer can keep the profits it banked from selling blood-thinning treatment Xarelto during an interim sales ban that stopped generic-drugmakers infringing the now-revoked patent.
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September 01, 2025
UK Basketball League Says Monopoly Claims Are 'Absurd'
A British professional basketball league has disputed allegations that it breached competition law by refusing to compete for an exclusive license for the country's men's league as "absurd," claiming that it couldn't be involved because the process was unlawful.
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September 05, 2025
Singapore Chambers Duxton Hill Expands To London Bar
Duxton Hill Chambers has unveiled the opening of a new operation in London, making it the first Singaporean chambers to establish a presence at the English bar, with the help of a former Allen & Overy LLP arbitration chief.
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August 29, 2025
Baker Botts Gets Early $1M Win In $7M Tycoon Fee Fight
Baker Botts LLP scored a partial early victory in its fight to recover $7 million in fees from an Egyptian energy mogul, with a London court ordering the businessman's company on Friday to pay $1 million ahead of a trial.
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August 29, 2025
Education Trust Mistreated Finance Director With Cancer
An employment tribunal has ruled that an education trust forced a finance and IT director with cancer to quit by failing to properly consider his complaints of discrimination during a grievance hearing.
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August 29, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Prosecco DOC Consortium bring an intellectual property claim against a distributor, the Serious Fraud Office bring a civil recovery claim against the ex-wife of a solicitor jailed over a £19.5 million fraud scheme, and law firm Joseph Hage Aaronson & Bremen LLP sue its former client, the bankrupt Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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August 29, 2025
Tesco Sues Broadcom For £100M Over Software Licensing
Tesco is suing Broadcom Inc. for more than £100 million ($135 million), alleging the tech giant has abused its market dominance after a $69 billion merger with cloud services provider VMware threatened to force price increases for critical software of almost 250%.
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August 29, 2025
EasyGroup Loses 'Rest Easy' TM Fight With Premier Inn
EasyGroup lost its trademark infringement case against Premier Inn Hotels on Friday as a judge ruled that customers would not confuse its "rest easy" sign featuring a half moon with the low-cost giant's brands of easyHotel and Rest Easy Apartments.
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August 28, 2025
Pharma Co. Fights Rival's Blood Pressure Drug Patent
A pharmaceutical company has told a London court that a rival's treatment for high blood pressure infringes one of its patents, throwing a wrench in the rival's plans to keep selling its drug to British patients.
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August 28, 2025
Catering Worker Wins Second Shot At Sex Harassment Case
A catering agency worker won a second chance on Thursday to sue her employer after being sexually harassed by a colleague outside work, with a tribunal ruling the judge failed to consider whether the incident was tied to their employment.
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August 28, 2025
Payroll Co. Loses Bid To Block £1.1M HMRC Debt Petition
A payroll services company cannot block a winding-up petition by HM Revenue & Customs over a debt claim of more than £1.1 million ($1.2 million) in unpaid taxes, a London court ruled in denying the company's bid.
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August 28, 2025
Livingston FC Defeats Ex-GC's Unfair Dismissal Claim
The former general counsel at a Scottish Premier League club has lost his employment tribunal claim accusing Livingston FC of forcing him to resign for blowing the whistle about purported financial irregularities and unlawful payments to players.
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August 28, 2025
Glencore Must Hand Over Bribery Probe Docs In Investor Case
Glencore lost its bid on Thursday to withhold documents about investigations into bribery and corruption in a legal battle with investors who claim that the company misled them by failing to disclose wrongdoing.
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August 28, 2025
Broker Denies Negligence Claim Over PI Policy Notice
An insurance broker has said it is not liable for allegedly failing to tell a building service engineer's insurer about a row the engineer is involved in over the installation of a generator system, arguing that it had given the notification.
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August 27, 2025
UK Broker Says Sanctions Barred Completion Of VTB's Trades
A British financial broker has denied claims it owes VTB Capital PLC $3.4 million for failing to settle trades in Russian securities, arguing that sanctions on the investment bank's parent company rendered the transactions illegal.
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August 27, 2025
Swiss Bank Seeks Docs From AIG For Dutch Arbitration Fight
A Swiss private bank is seeking discovery from AIG Inc. for use in a Dutch court case in which the bank wants vacated an arbitral award denying its claim for $90 million in coverage from the insurer's European subsidiary, the bank told a New York federal court.
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August 27, 2025
Crochet Animal Kit Maker Says Rival Stole Website Images
A U.S. crochet kit maker has sued a Hong Kong-registered rival in London, alleging that the competitor has copied its product photographs to sell similar items online.
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August 27, 2025
Russell Brand Says LA Sexual Assault Claims 'Dishonest'
Comedian Russell Brand has denied sexually assaulting a woman at his former home in Los Angeles in 2008, telling a London court that the woman's allegations are "fundamentally dishonest."
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August 27, 2025
Call For FCA Oversight On Portfolio Funding Sparks Concerns
Litigation-funding experts have warned that a recent government-backed report could have unintended consequences for the sector by calling on the Financial Conduct Authority to regulate portfolio funding — without clearly defining what that entails.
Expert Analysis
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Key Points From EC Economic Security Screening Initiatives
Lawyers at Herbert Smith analyze the European Commission's five recently announced initiatives aimed at de-risking the EU's trade and investment links with third countries, including the implementation of mandatory screening mechanisms and extending coverage to investments made by EU companies that are controlled subsidiaries of non-EU investors.
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Following The Road Map Toward Quantum Security
With the Financial Conduct Authority’s recent publication of a white paper on a quantum-secure financial sector, firms should begin to consider the quantum transition early — before the process is driven by regulatory obligations — with the goal of developing a cybersecurity architecture that is agile while also allowing for quantum security, say lawyers at Cleary.
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Why EU Ruling On Beneficial Ownership May Affect The UK
Following the EU judgment in Sovim v. Luxembourg that public access to beneficial ownership information conflicts with data protection rights, several British overseas territories and dependencies have recently reversed their commitment to introduce unrestricted access, and challenges to the U.K.’s liberal stance may be on the cards, says Rupert Cullen at Allectus Law.
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Opinion
Labour Should Reconsider Its Discrimination Law Plans
While the Labour Party's recent proposals allowing equal pay claims based on ethnicity and disability, and introducing dual discrimination, have laudable intentions and bring some advantages, they are not the right path forward as the changes complicate the discrimination claim process for employees, say Colin Leckey and Tarun Tawakley at Lewis Silkin.
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AI Is Outpacing IP Law Frameworks
In Thaler v. Comptroller-General, the U.K. Supreme Court recently ruled that artificial intelligence can't be an inventor, but the discussion on the relationship between AI and intellectual property law is far from over, and it's clear that technology is developing faster than the legal framework, says Stephen Carter at The Intellectual Property Works.
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Tracing The History Of LGBTQ+ Rights In The Workplace
Pride History month is a timely reminder of how recent developments have shaped LGBTQ+ employees' rights in the workplace today, and what employers can do to ensure that employees are protected from discrimination, including creating safe workplace cultures and promoting allyship, say Caitlin Farrar and Jessica Bennett at Farrer.
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Ruling In FCA Case Offers Tips On Flexible Work Requests
In Wilson v. Financial Conduct Authority, the Employment Tribunal recently found that the regulator's rejection of a remote work request was justified, highlighting for employers factors that affect flexible work request outcomes, while emphasizing that individual inquiries should be considered on the specific facts, say Frances Rollin, Ella Tunnell and Kerry Garcia at Stevens & Bolton.
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Pension Scheme Ruling Elucidates Conversion Issues
In Newell Trustees v. Newell Rubbermaid UK Services, the High Court recently upheld a pension plan's conversion of final salary benefits to money purchase benefits, a welcome conclusion that considered several notable issues, such as how to construe pension deeds and when contracts made outside scheme rules can determine benefits, say Ian Gordon and Jamie Barnett at Gowling.
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New Fraud Prevention Offense May Not Make Much Difference
By targeting only large organizations, the Economic Crime Act's new failure to prevent fraud offense is striking in that, despite its breadth, it will affect so few companies, and is therefore unlikely to help ordinary victims, says Andrew Smith at Corker Binning.
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Aldi Design Infringement Case Highlights Assessment Issues
The forthcoming English Court of Appeal decision in Marks and Spencer v. Aldi, regarding the alleged infringement of design rights, could provide practitioners with new guidance, particularly in relation to the relevant date for assessment of infringement and the weight that should be attributed to certain design elements in making this assessment, say Rory Graham and Georgia Davis at RPC.
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Generative AI Raises IP, Data Protection And Contracts Issues
As the EU's recent agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act has fueled businesses' interest in adopting generative AI tools, it is crucial to understand how these tools utilize material to generate output and what questions to ask in relation to intellectual property, data privacy and contracts, say lawyers at Deloitte Legal.
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Decoding UK Case Law On Anti-Suit Injunctions
The English High Court's forthcoming decision on an anti-suit injunction filed in Augusta Energy v. Top Oil last month will provide useful guidance on application grounds for practitioners, but, pending that ruling, other recent decisions offer key considerations when making or resisting claims when there is an exclusive jurisdiction clause in the contract, says Abigail Healey at Quillon Law.
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Litigation Funding Implications Amid Post-PACCAR Disputes
An English tribunal's recent decision in Neill v. Sony, allowing an appeal on the enforceability of a litigation funding agreement, highlights how the legislative developments on funding limits following the U.K. Supreme Court's 2023 decision in Paccar v. Competition Appeal Tribunal may affect practitioners, say Andrew Leitch and Anoma Rekhi at BCLP.
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EU Product Liability Reforms Represent A Major Shakeup
The recent EU Parliament and Council provisional agreement on a new product liability regime in Europe revises the existing strict liability rules for the first time in 40 years by easing the burden of proof to demonstrate that a product is defective, a hurdle that many had previously failed to overcome, say Anushi Amin and Edward Turtle at Cooley.
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Zimbabwe Ruling Bolsters UK's Draw As Arbitration Enforcer
An English court's recent decision in Border Timbers v. Zimbabwe, finding that state immunity was irrelevant to registering an arbitration award, emphasizes the U.K.'s reputation as a creditor-friendly destination for award enforcement, say Jon Felce and Tulsi Bhatia at Cooke Young.