Pinsent Masons Self-Reports To SRA Over Lawyer's Use Of AI

By Eddie Beaver

Pinsent Masons LLP has referred itself to the Solicitors Regulation Authority after admitting that one of its junior lawyers used artificial intelligence to generate made-up law in letters sent to court, as a London judge said Friday he would not consider initiating contempt proceedings.

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Energy Trader Gets October Trial In Hormuz Benchmark Row

By Ronan Barnard

Mercuria Energy Group secured an expedited October trial on Friday in its claim against Baltic Exchange for allegedly failing to factor the essential closing of the Strait of Hormuz into an oil trading benchmark, after Mercuria argued it would affect the entire market.

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Rosenblatt Defeats Ex-Partner's Bid To Revive Race Bias Case

By Hanna Vioque

An appellate tribunal refused on Friday to revive a former Rosenblatt partner's race discrimination claims against the law firm's senior figures and former chief executive, concluding that an executive's use of an inflammatory slur for Black people wasn't enough to prop up his case.  

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen Napster sued by a music royalties company, White & Case LLP and Laytons LLP targeted in a claim by a property developer, a short-term lender pursue legal action against law firm Rainer Hughes and its former founding partner following his strike-off for money laundering offenses, and the administrators of London Bridging sue the founder of collapsed Market Financial Solutions. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Ship Owners Right To Nix Oil Trip Over Sanctions Risk

By Sophia Dourou

The owners of a vessel were entitled to refuse to load a cargo by an oil company allegedly part-owned by an oligarch with links to Belarus after an appeals court held Friday they reasonably feared they would breach sanctions.

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Fintech Co. Settles Claim For Withheld $1.6M Amid FTC Probe

By Eddie Beaver

An e-commerce platform has settled its claim against a Canadian financial technology company that allegedly wrongly withheld a total of €1.3 million ($1.5 million) and 20.9 million Japanese yen ($130,000) owed from customer purchases.

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MFS Litigation Grows With Latest Claim Against Founder

By Eddie Beaver

Administrators of a company linked to Market Financial Solutions have sued Paresh Raja, the collapsed lender's owner, in a London court for alleged breach of fiduciary duty — the latest in growing litigation surrounding the mortgage scandal.

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PrivatBank Beats Ex-Owners' Bid To Appeal $3B Fraud Ruling

By Sophia Dourou

The former owners of PrivatBank failed on Friday to overturn a finding that they owe the Ukrainian lender $3 billion, as an appeals court rejected their argument that its acceptance of a later repayment "extinguished" the loss resulting from their fraudulent loan recycling scheme.

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Compliance Pro Wins Case Over 'Sham' Redundancy Process

By Hanna Vioque

An employment tribunal has ordered a software development company to pay a compliance manager £6,957 ($9,342), ruling that it preselected her for redundancy without considering whether she could stay on in another arm of the large international company. 

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Ex-Superdrug Manager Can Tweak Discrimination Claim

By Jamie Lennox

A tribunal has ruled that a former Superdrug manager can amend his claim that the health and beauty retail chain discriminated against him based on his sexuality before forcing him to resign.

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Co-Op Defeats £205M Claim Over Somerfield Restructuring

By Sophia Dourou

The liquidators of collapsed supermarket chain Somerfield, which the Co-op acquired, have lost their £205 million ($275 million) claim against the retail giant, after a court held that a 2015 restructuring did not involve selling Somerfield assets at less than their worth.

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