A London court has ordered a discount retailer to pay indemnity costs, finding the company's solicitors Brandsmiths misused criminal contempt proceedings and threatened to report their opposition lawyers to the profession's regulator in an attempt to gain leverage in a trademark dispute.
A London court has ordered a discount retailer to pay indemnity costs, finding the company's solicitors Brandsmiths misused criminal contempt proceedings and threatened to report their opposition lawyers to the profession's regulator in an attempt to gain leverage in a trademark dispute.
AmTrust persuaded a court Friday to allow it to challenge a decision capping its bid to hold an insurer of two defunct law firms liable for £15 million ($20 million) paid out under a failed litigation funding system.
The government accused a property developer of choosing "sit back and let the public purse pay" £48 million ($64 million) to fix fire safety defects as it closed its case on Friday that the developer must repay the money.
The past week in London has seen singer Rita Ora be sued by her management company, the billionaire Gertner brothers file a part 8 claim and Stephenson Harwood lodge a debt claim against a member of the Bulgari jewelry dynasty. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
The former executive chair of the collapsed Metamorph Group of law firms has said he does not owe approximately £1.1 million ($1.5 million) to two insurers under personal guarantees, arguing that money he authorized for release to them discharged his obligations.
Litigation funder Burford Capital is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Third Circuit decision dismissing on jurisdictional grounds its bid to arbitrate a dispute relating to German antitrust litigation, arguing that the appeals court committed a "fundamental error."
The Russian Federation's constitution and statutes make clear that Vladimir Putin's administration and Yukos Oil Co.'s financing arm didn't have a valid agreement to arbitrate a dispute that resulted in a nearly $5 billion arbitral award against the country, Russia told the D.C. Circuit Friday.
German drugmaker Merck KGaA successfully blocked pharmaceutical rival Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC from accessing a cache of confidential files which featured in a trademark dispute between the pair, as a London court ruled Friday that MSD is contractually bound not to use the documents.
British perfumer Jo Malone and the owner of Zara have denied infringing "Jo Malone" trademarks belonging to Estée Lauder Companies, telling a London court that shoppers would know the difference between the business and its founder.
A U.K. bank has beaten a former executive's claim that it penalized her for blowing the whistle on alleged regulatory failures, persuading a tribunal that its disciplinary probe into her hotel spending was not a sham.
A tribunal has rejected a warehouse worker's claim that managers at Tesco subjected her to harassment, finding that rumors spread by colleagues about a short-lived workplace relationship amounted to little more than workplace gossip.
