Mining company BHP asked a court on Thursday for permission to challenge findings that it is liable for a £36 billion ($48 billion) claim over a dam collapse in Brazil, arguing that the judge who found it responsible for the disaster had applied the wrong test.
Mining company BHP asked a court on Thursday for permission to challenge findings that it is liable for a £36 billion ($48 billion) claim over a dam collapse in Brazil, arguing that the judge who found it responsible for the disaster had applied the wrong test.
Estée Lauder Companies has sued British perfumer Jo Malone in a London court, accusing her of infringing trademarks over the Jo Malone brand that it acquired when it bought the company in 1999.
Apple Inc. scored a partial victory on Thursday in an £853 million ($1.1 billion) collective action over allegations that it throttled the performance of iPhone batteries as the U.K. competition court threw out part of the case.
A European Court of Justice advocate general urged the European Union's highest court Thursday to return appeals from Credit Agricole Group and JPMorgan Chase & Co. challenging antitrust fines imposed for manipulating a benchmark interest rate back to a lower court, concluding that court failed to consider enforcer tweaks to the penalties.
Mastercard and Visa bid at a London appellate court Thursday for a chance to overturn a judgment that found default fees they charged on transactions breached competition law, saying the decision made legal errors.
Four former senior Deutsche Bank traders are suing the lender for upward of £600 million ($803 million) in London after they were convicted, but subsequently acquitted, of aiding false accounting and market manipulation in one of Italy's biggest financial scandals.
Supermarket chain Asda on Thursday beat claims that it infringed the rights of a mandarin orange breeder to a protected type of the fruit by stocking a variety that was made seedless through exposure to radiation.
Hasbro asked a London court to rule before the case proceeds to trial that the Vietnamese makers of the "Wolfoo" YouTube cartoon have infringed Peppa Pig.
A tribunal has ordered Sainsbury's to pay a former store manager £11,900 ($15,900) for disability discrimination after it left him out of a LinkedIn post celebrating International Men's Day while he was on sick leave with anxiety.
A former international arbitration lawyer at Reed Smith LLP has started an independent practice focused on construction, energy and infrastructure disputes.
