Cooke Young & Keidan has defeated a £20 million ($27 million) professional negligence counterclaim brought by a former client in a row over the firm's demand for fees that arose from its representation of the businessman in his legal dispute with a bank.
Cooke Young & Keidan has defeated a £20 million ($27 million) professional negligence counterclaim brought by a former client in a row over the firm's demand for fees that arose from its representation of the businessman in his legal dispute with a bank.
A London court ruled Friday that an Azerbaijani state-owned oil company can pursue claims in England against the founder of a Turkish shipping group for allegedly moving assets to avoid paying about $308 million owed under arbitration awards.
The past week in London has seen Cleary Gottlieb sued by a former client it advised on the proposed sale of a holding company and the continuation of litigation between pharma giants Merck Sharp & Dohme and Merck KGaA over rights to the Merck name in the U.K.
London-based litigation funder Fenchurch Legal has settled a dispute with an investment manager and a defunct lender that has clashed with the investment manager over a multimillion-pound loan.
A yoga equipment retailer has denied infringing a rival's intellectual property rights over its mats, telling a London court that its opponent's design protections are invalid because the mat's technical functions dictate its appearance.
P&O Ferries must pay a customer services representative £40,807 ($55,100) for unfair dismissal after it carried out a "seriously defective" investigation into accusations that he had tugged a colleague's hair and called her a "cock."
An appellate judge in London has ruled that employment tribunals cannot make a consent order formalizing a proposed settlement between parties if one side changes their mind and pulls out of the deal.
A recruitment company has sued its former director, claiming he failed to repay £1.7 million ($2.3 million) in loans that became due after the business entered into a financing deal with one of its U.S. affiliates.
Although art gallery Hauser & Wirth was able to defeat criminal charges of breaching the U.K. Russia sanctions regime, the ruling illustrates that prosecution for those operating in high-value international markets is a real-world risk, say lawyers at Fieldfisher.
