Commercial Litigation UK

  • June 24, 2025

    Sandoz Latest To Seek Revocation Of AstraZeneca Patent

    Sandoz has asked a judge to revoke an AstraZeneca patent for a diabetes treatment, arguing that the drug failed to make any contributions to the field after a court ordered it to hold off the launch of its generic version. 

  • June 24, 2025

    Gateley Denies Housing Developer's Negligence Claim

    Gateley PLC has denied that a law firm it acquired gave negligent advice to a housing developer during the purchase of two sites in southeast England and said that alleged legal restrictions on the land have not rendered the plots unprofitable.

  • June 24, 2025

    Real-World Views Fair Game In TM Disputes, Top Court Says

    Britain's highest court ruled Tuesday that judges can think about how products will look in the real world when weighing trademark infringement claims, but it agreed with a French footwear company that it didn't tread on sports giant Umbro's diamond logo trademark.

  • June 23, 2025

    App Exec Off Sick With Anxiety From Ukraine War Wins £30K

    An employment tribunal has ordered a cash-for-data app company to pay £29,799 ($39,909) to a former product manager for failing to provide her full wages while she was off sick with anxiety and depression triggered by the war in Ukraine. 

  • June 23, 2025

    Porsche Importer, Dealer Are Sued At CAT Over 'Reseller Ban'

    A premium sports car part reseller has sued two U.K. Porsche subsidiaries, accusing them of abusing their dominant position by refusing to sell vehicle components to independent repairers, Britain's antitrust tribunal said Monday.

  • June 23, 2025

    IBM Trims UK Whistleblower's Claim Of Mistreatment

    An employment tribunal has ruled that a staffer at IBM U.K. cannot sue its parent company because her work as part of a global team did not make it her secondary employer.  

  • June 23, 2025

    Trafigura Beats Dubai Bank Unit's 'Cynical' $21M Fraud Case

    Trafigura on Monday defeated a claim by a subsidiary of Dubai's Rasmala Investment Bank alleging that the commodities trader tricked it into providing $21 million to pay off another company's debts, with a London court ruling the trader was not part of the deception.

  • June 23, 2025

    AstraZeneca's £32M HQ Defect Claim Misguided, Fire Co. Says

    A fire engineering consultancy has denied designing problematic fire-stopping protection at AstraZeneca UK Ltd.'s £1 billion ($1.35 billion) headquarters, and said that the pharmaceutical company's £31.7 million claim is a misconceived attempt to find liability after reaching a settlement with the main building contractor.

  • June 23, 2025

    Luxembourg Lender Sues Urbas For €189M Over Unpaid Debt

    A credit provider has alleged that a Spanish real estate development group owes it more than €189 million ($218 million) over an unpaid loan, and said the group's companies have deliberately misrepresented their payment and debt obligations.

  • June 23, 2025

    UK Basketball Clubs Sue Governing Body Over League Split

    Members of a professional basketball league in Britain are suing the sports governing body in a London court, alleging competition breaches, following what they believe to be the latest development to stop them from operating.  

  • June 23, 2025

    Staffer Can't Ax Amazon's Defense To Russia Tech Sale Claim

    A former Amazon employee on Monday lost his bid to strike out the tech giant's defense to his claims that he was fired for blowing the whistle on alleged sales of its facial recognition technology to Russia.

  • June 23, 2025

    Investors Say Hargreaves Ignored Woodford Fund's Problems

    Thousands of investors who lost out when Neil Woodford's fund collapsed in 2019 have sued asset manager Hargeaves Lansdown, saying the firm kept the fund on its prestigious Wealth List long after it should have known it was headed for administration.

  • June 23, 2025

    Dryrobe Claims Rival's Name Confuses Consumers At TM Trial

    Outdoor clothing brand Dryrobe said a rival's use of the name "D-Robe" might lead to consumers confusing it with its own successful brand, on the first day of a trademark dispute trial on Monday.

  • June 23, 2025

    Campaigners Agree Cost Cap In State Pension Redress Row

    Campaigners said Monday they have agreed to cap legal costs with the Department for Work and Pensions in their fight against the government's decision not to pay compensation for historic failures around women's state pensions.

  • June 23, 2025

    AI-Driven Fake Evidence Could 'Play Havoc' In Legal Disputes

    A recent High Court judgment exposed how nonexistent artificial intelligence-generated citations had been used in legal arguments — but experts say this could be the tip of the iceberg for increasingly sophisticated fake evidence making its way into disputes.

  • June 23, 2025

    Judge Faces Renewed Call For Probe For Bullying Litigants

    An employment judge faces a potential misconduct probe after being accused of a "longstanding pattern" of bullying and intimidation during hearings.

  • June 20, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen Pogust Goodhead face legal action from mining giant BHP Group, Trainline bring a procurement claim against the Department for Transport, Sworders auction house sue Conservative peer Patricia Rawlings, and Nokia hit with a patents claim by Hisense. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • June 20, 2025

    Digital Nomad Co. Seeks Annulment Of EU VAT Rules

    An online short-term rentals company said it's challenging the Council of the European Union in the bloc's court in a bid to overhaul deemed supplier rules for value-added tax.

  • June 20, 2025

    AstraZeneca Must Give University More Info In IP Rate Battle

    A London judge on Friday ordered AstraZeneca to give the University of Sheffield more information about how the pharma giant sublicensed its patented cancer drug amid the university's claims that AstraZeneca lied to get better rates.

  • June 20, 2025

    Reckitt Denies Ex-VP's £1M Claim, Cites Trade Secret Breach

    Consumer goods company Reckitt has rejected claims that it owes more than £1 million ($1.4 million) to a former senior executive from Russia, arguing that it fired him ahead of the end of his garden leave because he was working with a bidder for part of its business. 

  • June 20, 2025

    Energy Data Co. Can't Shut Off Info Supply To Rival

    The Competition Appeal Tribunal has blocked an energy data supplier from suspending its services to a competitor following an allegation that the move is an abuse of its de facto monopoly over U.K. meter usage data.

  • June 20, 2025

    Managers Blamed For £14M Overrun Win Unfair Firing Case

    Two project managers were unfairly sacked when their chief executive fired them on the spot in a meeting over a project that had gone £14 million ($18.9 million) over budget, but are not entitled to damages, an employment tribunal has ruled. 

  • June 20, 2025

    BHP Sues Claimant Lawyers Amid £36B Dam Disaster Trial

    BHP is suing law firm Pogust Goodhead, which is representing hundreds of thousands of individuals, municipalities and businesses in a £36 billion ($48.5 billion) claim against the Australian mining giant over a dam disaster in Brazil that killed 19 people, according to court records.

  • June 20, 2025

    BBC Confronts AI Biz Perplexity Over Content Scraping

    The BBC said Friday that it has threatened to take legal action against Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, claiming that the company trained its model on the broadcaster's content.

  • June 20, 2025

    Ex-MP Can't Stop £230K Payment To Times For Dropped Libel

    A former Conservative MP can't appeal an order to pay almost £230,000 ($310,000) towards The Times' costs defending his now-dropped defamation claim, as a London court ruled Friday that the discounted figure already factored in the newspaper's misconduct in the case.

Expert Analysis

  • The Top 7 Global ESG Litigation Trends In 2023

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    To date, ESG litigation across the world can largely be divided into seven forms, but these patterns will continue developing, including a rise in cases against private and state actors, a more complex regulatory environment affecting multinational companies, and an increase in nongovernmental organization activity, say Sophie Lamb and Aleksandra Dulska at Latham.

  • Proposed Amendment Would Transform UK Collective Actions

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    If the recently proposed amendment to the Digital Markets Bill is enacted, the U.K.'s collective action landscape will undergo a seismic change that will likely have significant consequences for consumer-facing businesses, say lawyers at Linklaters.

  • EU GDPR Ruling Reiterates Relative Nature Of 'Personal Data'

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    The Court of Justice of the European Union recently confirmed in Gesamtverband v. Scania that vehicle identification number data can be processed under the General Data Protection Regulation, illustrating that the same dataset may be considered "personal data" for one party, but not another, which suggests a less expansive definition of the term, say lawyers at Van Bael.

  • Employment Law Changes May Increase Litigation In 2024

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    As we enter 2024, significant employment law updates include changes to holiday pay, gender equality and flexible working, but the sector must deal with the unintended consequences of some of these changes, likely leading to increased litigation in the coming year, says Louise Taft at Jurit.

  • How 'Copyleft' Licenses May Affect Generative AI Output

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    Open-source software and the copyleft licenses that support it, whereby derivative works must be made available for others to use and modify, have been a boon to the development of artificial intelligence, but could lead to issues for coders who use AI to help write code and may find their resulting work exposed, says William Dearn at HLK.

  • UK Compulsory Mediation Ruling Still Leaves Courts Leeway

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    An English Court of Appeal recently issued a landmark decision in Churchill v. Merthyr Tydfil County, stating that courts can compel parties to engage in alternative dispute resolution, but the decision does not dictate how courts should exercise this power, which litigants will likely welcome, say lawyers at Herbert Smith.

  • Russia Ruling Shows UK's Robust Jurisdiction Approach

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    An English High Court's recent decision to grant an anti-suit injunction in the Russia-related dispute Renaissance Securities v. Chlodwig Enterprises clearly illustrates that obtaining an injunction will likely be more straightforward when the seat is in England compared to when it is abroad, say lawyers at Linklaters.

  • EU Rejection Of Booking.com Deal Veers From Past Practice

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    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.

  • PPI Ruling Spells Trouble For Financial Services Firms

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    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.

  • UPC Decision Highlights Key Security Costs Questions

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    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.

  • Extradition Ruling Hints At Ways Around High Burden Of Proof

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    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.

  • IP Ruling Could Pave Way For AI Patents In UK

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    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.

  • UK Review May Lead To Lower Investment Screening Burden

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    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.

  • What Prince Harry Privacy Case May Mean For Media Ethics

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    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.

  • How European Authorities Are Foiling Anti-Competitive Hiring

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    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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