Pogust Goodhead warned claimants at a High Court hearing on Monday that any attempt to replace it in litigation against BHP over Brazil's Mariana dam disaster could leave them facing legal bills exceeding £2 billion ($2.6 billion).
Pogust Goodhead warned claimants at a High Court hearing on Monday that any attempt to replace it in litigation against BHP over Brazil's Mariana dam disaster could leave them facing legal bills exceeding £2 billion ($2.6 billion).
Lawyers for a housing association doubted they would get the chance to show that the Court of Appeal had erred in a ruling. So the team at Devonshires was stunned when Britain's highest court agreed to hear an appeal. Here, members of the team tell Law360 how their confidence was vindicated.
Amazon told a London antitrust tribunal Monday that a proposed consumer class action estimated to be worth up to £6.3 billion ($8.3 billion) should be rejected, arguing that it would duplicate work done for similar claims and "generate vast returns" for lawyers and funders.
Reinsurers cannot refuse multibillion-dollar claims for planes stranded in Russia on the basis that they're not covered by reinsurance policies arranged by airlines, a group of lessors told the opening of trial Monday.
Motor finance lenders and a consumer advocacy body labeled the Financial Conduct Authority's redress program as fundamentally flawed at the Upper Tribunal on Monday, with some asking to allow expert witnesses to challenge the assumptions.
The sellers of a software developer have denied concealing its business with sanctioned Russian entities including Sberbank and Gazprombank ahead of the developer's $53 million sale, arguing that the relationships were "expressly" disclosed to the buyer during due diligence.
A Russian state-owned boat-leasing company has won a $40 million claim against four Cypriot businesses that failed to meet their obligations as guarantors of charters wrongly terminated after Russia invaded Ukraine.
A Luxembourg real estate debt investment company has sued an engineering consultancy and a design firm for £20 million ($26.4 million), alleging that defects in a Shoreditch hotel development caused a sale to fall through.
An architect and engineering company embroiled in a row over a £113 million ($150 million) construction bill have separately denied they must pay out to help rebuild blocks of flats with defective fire protections.
A renewable energy investment fund has been sued by solar energy company Enviromena for £2.8 million ($3.7 million), after a project it acquired from the fund had higher grid connection costs than expected.
Counsel for generic drugmaker Dr. Reddy's urged a London court Monday to invalidate patent protections for Boehringer Ingelheim's billion-dollar diabetes treatment, in a bid to clear the way for its own generic version.
A generic drugmaker has accused a rival of misusing its confidential information about insomnia treatment melatonin, asking a London court to block its opponent from using the information to market a competing version of the drug.
A British vendor for Costco has sued a Dutch supplier and the Home Office, accusing the company of approving a fried chicken shipment then falsely reporting copyright infringement to get border officials to detain it.
White & Case LLP has denied responsibility for £2.6 million ($3.4 million) in alleged tax liabilities, arguing that a lettings agency sought advice from Laytons LLP before deciding to pay millions in dividends to offshore trusts.
Australia-based Litigation Capital Management Ltd. said it is winding down its existing operations after its net loss more than doubled to AU$165.7 million ($115 million), citing investment performance that "deteriorated sharply" over the past two years.
A Liechtensteiner natural gas utility said Monday that it is "considering immediate legal actions" to set aside an arbitral award favoring Moldova in a dispute over allegedly unfair tariffs and other actions that restricted the utility's access to Moldova's natural gas network.
