Collyer Bristow denies it cost a storage business £73.4 million ($97.3 million) by failing to explain that settling a swaps dispute with Barclays would block future claims against Clyde & Co. and others, telling a London court that its advice was sound.
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Collyer Bristow Fights £73M Claim Over Advice On Settlement

By Jamie Lennox

Collyer Bristow denies it cost a storage business £73.4 million ($97.3 million) by failing to explain that settling a swaps dispute with Barclays would block future claims against Clyde & Co. and others, telling a London court that its advice was sound.

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Apple Asks Top Court To Upend $502M FRAND License Rate

By Alex Baldwin

Apple urged the U.K. Supreme Court on Monday to overturn a ruling requiring it to pay $502 million for patents deemed essential to the 4G standard, in an appeal that could shape global telecoms patent negotiations.

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Black Cab Drivers Say Uber's Deception Delayed UK Claims

By Joanne Faulkner

London black cab drivers told the High Court Monday that the limitation period for their claims against Uber should be extended because the ride-hailing company's alleged deliberate misrepresentations prevented them from bringing the case sooner.

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Blur Drummer Fails To Revive £200M Royalties Class Action

By Sophia Dourou

Blur drummer Dave Rowntree failed Monday to revive his collective action over the distribution of £200 million ($265.2 million) in royalties, as the Court of Appeal held he had failed to establish that the royalties "belong" to any particular individual.

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PROPERTY & CONSTRUCTION

Developer Loses Subsidy Appeal Over £140M Council Loans

By William Janes

A property developer failed Monday to revive his case that an English council unlawfully subsidized a rival by approving £140 million ($185 million) in loans for the construction of two tower blocks without doing due diligence.

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SECURITIES & BANKING

FCA's £7.5B Motor Finance Schemes Paused Amid Legal Row

By Ronan Barnard

The U.K. finance regulator's £7.5 billion ($9.9 billion) redress schemes for motor finance customers will be partly suspended after the first hearing at a London tribunal Monday of a series of legal claims challenging them.

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ARBITRATION

Lawyers, Funder In Hot Seat Over Nixed $15B Malaysia Award

By Caroline Simson

Units of Malaysia's state-owned energy company have initiated litigation in New York seeking permission to subpoena former employees of Therium in support of ongoing litigation in Jersey against the third-party funder and lawyers who helped to secure a since-vacated $14.9 billion arbitral award against Kuala Lumpur.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

US Fights J&J Bid To Ax Blood Cancer Patent

By Hanna Vioque

The U.S. government has rejected a Johnson & Johnson unit's attacks on a patented treatment for a rare kind of blood cancer, telling a London court that it has found "issue with each and every allegation" made.

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Property Manager Looks To Stave Off 'Praxis' TM Challenge

By Max Austin

A London-based property manager has urged a London court to toss a trademark infringement claim against its "Praxis Block Management" logo, arguing its rivals cannot enforce their own trademark because they have produced no evidence of commercial use.

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Developer Says Tech Biz Copied Software To Win Phone Deal

By Max Austin

A software developer has accused a rival of stealing a long-standing supply contract with a Three Mobile unit by secretly developing a replica of the developer's data management software, despite never acquiring a license to use it.

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'Nerds' Candy Owner Says Rival Infringed TMs In UK

By Jamie Lennox

The owner of "Nerds" candy has accused a Dutch rival of infringing its trademark over the fruit-flavored confectionery brand, telling a London court that its opponent's "Nippers" brand is similar enough to cause confusion.

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EMPLOYMENT & BENEFITS

No Payout For Solicitor Unfairly Fired From University

By Jamie Lennox

A tribunal has ruled that the University of Edinburgh does not have to pay any compensation to a solicitor it unfairly sacked after she deliberately altered emails and behaved unprofessionally toward her managers.

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Tube Worker Wins Case Over Dismissal Ultimatum

By Max Austin

A tribunal has chastised London Underground for giving a maintenance worker an "unreasonable ultimatum" to either return to work or lose his job after he blew the whistle on alleged asbestos contamination and illegal dumping across the tube network.

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Royal Mail Beats Appeal Over Driver's Strike Bomb Joke

By Hanna Vioque

An appellate tribunal rejected a driver's claims Monday that Royal Mail unfairly fired him after he threatened to blow up a colleague's car for working during a strike, upholding previous findings that his posts on a WhatsApp group didn't count as trade union activity. 

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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Practice Leader Insights From Broadfield's Sinéad Lester

Sinéad Lester, Broadfield's head of commercial litigation, discusses how important it is for a leader to support their team in meeting deadlines, the challenges of not receiving instructions from a client in good time, and how the reforms to witness evidence continue to reshape how lawyers prepare cases.

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Considering Rules For Expert Witness Use Of Generative AI

As U.K. legal industry policymakers debate how to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in expert testimony, lawyers can take steps now when working with experts to understand and mitigate risks of proposed AI use, says Andrew Judkins at Norton Rose.

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