The government has proposed lifting the ban on damages-based agreements in opt-out competition claims, saying the move could expand funding options and reduce costs as part of a wider review of the collective proceedings regime.
The government has proposed lifting the ban on damages-based agreements in opt-out competition claims, saying the move could expand funding options and reduce costs as part of a wider review of the collective proceedings regime.
Carter-Ruck's upcoming challenge to the Solicitors Regulation Authority's demand for documents that the law firm says are protected by legal professional privilege could reshape how the SRA investigates SLAPPs and the misuse of client funds — even if the regulator wins.
More than 1,000 claimants are set to be withdrawn from group litigation alleging that Johnson & Johnson knowingly sold baby powder contaminated with asbestos in the U.K., though a London judge decided against striking them out.
Andy Burnham succeeded Keir Starmer as British prime minister on Monday, pledging to end four decades of private sector-led policy by expanding state control over people's well-being and the economy.
Four Northern Irish companies have settled their London claim that an engineering business owed them £20 million ($27 million) for allegedly refusing to pay in full for two overhead power line contractors.
Video game giant Atari has sued an alleged copycat company, seeking damages and an injunction to prevent it from using the Atari name after claiming it deliberately infringed trademarks associated with its 54-year-old brand.
The U.S. has accused a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary of infringing a U.S. government patent covering a blood cancer treatment, stepping up its response amid an ongoing claim that the patent is invalid.
A construction recruitment company can't recover input value-added tax after a London court held Monday that its director knew or should have known that its supply chain was compromised by fraud and that the transactions giving rise to the input tax credit were related to the fraud.
A former British aerospace company engineer has denied sharing its confidential data with a U.S. rival, saying a copy of a propulsion system she designed gave her no competitive advantage because she deleted it soon after leaving.
A London appellate judge has revived race discrimination claims brought by a former Barclays vice president, overturning a ruling by an earlier tribunal that the executive had waited too long to bring his case.
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