Analysis

Top UK Appeals Decisions In 2026: Midyear Review

By Joanne Faulkner

The U.K.'s top appeal courts have handed down a series of significant judgments in 2026, reshaping the tax treatment of members of LLPs, the management of mass consumer claims and the rules governing who can conduct litigation.

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Google To Pay £260M To End UK Play Store Collective Action

By Eddie Beaver

Google has agreed to pay £260 million ($353 million) to settle a class action brought on behalf of app developers seeking more than £1 billion in damages over its allegedly anticompetitive Play Store practices.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen shoe brand Crocs bring an appeal against the chief executive of the U.K.'s Intellectual Property Office, singer Alanis Morissette sued by the former head of operations at Live Nation Israel and the son of convicted fraudster Guo Wengui file an appeal against the Chapter 11 trustee controlling his father's bankruptcy estate. 

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Network Rail Blames 'Dragging Brakes' For Train Derailment

By Sophia Dourou

Network Rail has alleged in a £5.5 million ($7.5 million) claim against two freight operators that poor maintenance caused "dragging brakes" that derailed a train in Wales, spilling large amounts of oil on a nature reserve.

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Broker Can Pursue £5M Claim Over Wrongful Asset Freeze

By Eddie Beaver

A brokerage can pursue a claim for more than £5 million ($6.8 million) in losses allegedly caused by a wrongly obtained freezing order after a London court ruled on Friday that it had credible evidence of damage to its business.

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Gov't Says £100M Migrant Spy Plane Tender Was 'Fair'

By Robbie Kalus

The Home Office has rejected claims it should re-run a tender for a £100 million ($135 million) migrant spy planes contract, saying the original process was fair and transparent. 

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BP Says Panoro Breached Oil Deal By Switching To Trafigura

By Ronan Barnard

BP's international trading arm has sued a Panoro Energy unit in London, alleging Panoro wrongfully terminated an agreement giving BP the right to market crude from offshore Equatorial Guinea and instead committed the oil to trading company Trafigura.

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Virgin Media Beats Contractor's Implied Good Faith Claim

By Sophia Dourou

Virgin has successfully thrown out a contractor's claim over a soured deal to provide fiber optic data networks, after a judge ruled Friday that the agreements contained no express duty of good faith.

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Wind Farm Knew Risks In £1.2B Fees Row, Ofgem Says

By Robbie Kalus

Ofgem has rejected a windfarm operator's £1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) claim alleging that the energy regulator exposed it to excessive charges from an electricity transmission contract, saying the company was aware of the commercial risks from the outset. 

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AWOL Driver Wins £55K For Racially Biased Dismissal

By Jamie Lennox

A London tribunal has said a logistics company must pay £55,300 ($75,100), ruling that it racially discriminated against a Black driver when it sacked him after he took nine days off work.

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Drug Rulings Clarify Pricing Test And Penalty Reviews

The Court of Appeals’ recent drug price rulings in Pfizer v. Competition and Markets Authority and Auden Mckenzie v. CMA are both notable for how the court settled the legal test for excessive pricing, as well as for how it has restated the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s obligations when reviewing penalties, say lawyers at Wilson Sonsini.

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