Manchester City's breaches of the Premier League's financial rules could trigger a protracted legal battle involving litigation from rival clubs, drawn-out appeals and unprecedented sanctions, lawyers say.
Manchester City's breaches of the Premier League's financial rules could trigger a protracted legal battle involving litigation from rival clubs, drawn-out appeals and unprecedented sanctions, lawyers say.
A subsidiary of Panoro Energy has said that BP's international trading arm cannot force it to continue an agreement that gives BP the right to market crude oil from offshore Equatorial Guinea, arguing that it had terminated the contract and committed the oil to Trafigura.
The past week in London has seen PrivatBank sue its former oligarch owner, building materials provider Kingspan face a €100 million ($112 million) claim over Grenfell Tower cladding and energy giants VaroPreem and Viaro Energy become embroiled in an intellectual property row.
A DJ and record producer has pushed back against her former managers' claims that she owes £200,000 ($265,000) in commission, arguing that she ended their deal only after they improperly tried to obtain copyright ownership of her label.
Two Brit units have sued a U.S. claims outsourcer over the company's allegedly botched handling of a payout caused by Hurricane Laura in Louisiana that the insurance companies contend left them on the hook for a $1.2 million settlement.
A law firm owned by Seddons GSC has defeated a Luxembourg-based bank's claim that it conspired with a Russian media tycoon to avoid repaying £10 million ($13.2 million) in debt.
Access Advance LLC has denied that it must offer Snap a bespoke license covering Dolby-owned patents in its video-coding patent pool, telling a court that the Snapchat operator should seek a license directly from the audio technology firm.
A London court has declined to order the use of an artificial intelligence-based image searching tool in B&Q's trademark clash with rival kitchen retailer Wren, deeming the additional disclosure as too expensive.
Dubai-based construction conglomerate ASGC failed Friday to force U.K. rival Innovo to allow access to data and documents needed to file accounts, with a London court ruling that giving access would be a "commercial risk" to the rival.
A subsidiary of sports data company Stats Perform has settled its claims accusing a former executive of breaching his employment contract, ending litigation sparked by his decision to send documents to his personal email address.
After the government accepted key recommendations on using artificial intelligence in criminal disclosure, Joseph Green at Corker Binning examines whether this technology will affect the reliability of Serious Fraud Office assertions made to the defense regarding disclosable material, and what practical adjustments will be required of criminal lawyers.
