Commercial Litigation UK

  • August 04, 2025

    EU Ruling Allows Review Of International Sports Court Awards

    The European Union's Court of Justice ruled Friday that its 27 member states should be allowed to carry out in-depth reviews of the arbitral awards made by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland to ensure the decisions align with EU public policy.

  • August 04, 2025

    Roofing Co. Denies Infringing German Rival's Drainage Patent

    A British roofing company has denied infringing a German rival's patent for a rainwater drainage system, arguing the intellectual property protections should be nixed because engineers at the time would have thought it was obvious to build.

  • August 04, 2025

    EU Court To Hear Digital Nomad Case Against VAT Rules

    A European Union court will hear the case of an online short-term rental company against the bloc's deemed supplier rules for value-added tax on the grounds that the provisions disadvantage the industry, according to a notice issued Monday.

  • August 04, 2025

    StanChart Can't Withhold Docs In £1.5B Iran Sanctions Case

    Standard Chartered on Monday lost a bid to withhold regulatory documents from investors suing the bank for £1.5 billion ($2 billion) for allegedly making untrue or misleading statements about its noncompliance with sanctions.

  • August 04, 2025

    Solicitor Ignored Red Flags In Property Deals, Tribunal Told

    The Solicitors Regulation Authority told a disciplinary tribunal Monday that a lawyer who displayed "manifest incompetence" when he failed to prevent a number of fraudulent or potentially fraudulent property deals should face disciplinary consequences.

  • August 04, 2025

    Court Freezes Couple's £5M Over Alleged Misuse Of Co. Cash

    A London court granted a freezing order Monday worth more than £5.1 million ($6.8 million) against a married couple accused of siphoning funds from a holding company, finding that there is a real risk that they will scatter their assets.

  • August 04, 2025

    Serco Must Pay £750K To 147 Staff For Trade Union Breaches

    A tribunal has ordered Serco to pay 147 immigration center workers more than £750,000 ($997,000) in total after it ruled that the public services contractor breached trade union laws by making a pay offer directly to staff.

  • August 04, 2025

    Most Business Leaders Strongly Back Litigation Funding

    Most business leaders and consumers would consider litigation funding to pursue unaffordable legal cases and help close the gap in access to justice, according to new research published Monday.

  • August 04, 2025

    Pool Federation Defeats Trans Player's Challenge To Ban

    A transgender pool player has lost her case that a ban on her playing in women's teams and competitions is discriminatory, one of the first tests of the U.K. Supreme Court's watershed ruling on the legal definition of a woman.

  • August 04, 2025

    Hogan Exits ENRC Mandate As SFO Case Enters Final Stage

    Hogan Lovells International LLP has ended its involvement representing ENRC in the Kazakh miner's long-running litigation against the Serious Fraud Office and Dechert LLP, court records show.

  • August 04, 2025

    Sellers To Pay £5M For Hiding Breaches In Education Biz Sale

    The sellers of a military education business must pay more than £5.2 million ($6.9 million) in damages to the buyer after a court held Monday they had breached the terms of the deal by not disclosing violating funding regulations.

  • August 04, 2025

    VC Firm Beats Ex-Rosenblatt Firm's Legal Bill Appeal

    A venture capital firm beat a City law firm's appeal over costs the firm claimed to be owed for its representation under a conditional fee agreement when a London judge ruled that the financial business could not be criticized for raising an argument late in its dispute about whether it was liable to pay the legal bill.

  • August 04, 2025

    Telegraph Columnist Sues Police Over Hate Crime Probe

    Newspaper columnist Allison Pearson has sued Essex Police over statements it made about its investigation into allegations that she incited racial hatred with a tweet that referred to "Jew haters."

  • August 04, 2025

    Builder Sues To Void License Deal For TM It Owned All Along

    A homebuilder has sued to recover the fees it paid out to use a trademark for "Miller Metcalfe," arguing that it had actually owned the rights to the mark for years after buying it from the owner. 

  • August 04, 2025

    FIFA Faces Multibillion-Dollar Action Over Transfer Rules

    FIFA is facing a potentially multibillion-dollar class action on behalf of approximately 100,000 footballers across the European Union and the U.K. over its allegedly unlawful and restrictive no-poaching agreements that have been in place since 2002, a Dutch foundation revealed Monday.

  • August 04, 2025

    Accountancy Boss Denies Siphoning Funds During Exit Talks

    A businessman accused of wrongly extracting at least £850,000 ($1.1 million) from an accountancy has denied this was a conspiracy to harm the firm and claimed he was taking out money he considered at the time that he and his wife were owed.

  • August 04, 2025

    Venues Biz Beats Axed Staffer's Appeal To Use Leaked Emails

    An appeals judge has blocked the former employee of a venue operator from using leaked emails between the company and its lawyer to support her tribunal claim, ruling that the correspondence was legally privileged.

  • August 04, 2025

    Solicitors' Firm Blames Dishonest Lawyers For Missing Funds

    A law firm has denied misusing the funds of a dead individual's estate, arguing that alleged sham property purchases were carried out without its knowledge by a disbarred barrister and a former director of the outfit.

  • August 04, 2025

    Motor Finance Redress Scheme Could Reach £18B, FCA Says

    The Financial Conduct Authority has proposed a compensation program for motor finance customers after a landmark U.K. Supreme Court decision on Friday found signs that consumers were being treated unfairly, as the watchdog estimated that the cost could reach £18 billion ($24 billion).

  • August 02, 2025

    Supreme Court Car Finance Verdict Slashes Lender Exposure

    The U.K. Supreme Court's landmark decision Friday to reverse most of the Court of Appeal's judgment on hidden motor finance commissions has sharply narrowed the scope of any future redress scheme from the Financial Conduct Authority — an outcome critics said favored lenders and car dealers over consumer protection.

  • August 01, 2025

    The Times Says Mogul Misconduct Articles Are Public Interest

    The publisher of The Times newspaper has hit back against a London privacy claim brought by the founder of an exclusive mobile phone provider, saying that articles concerning allegations of wrongdoing against him did not violate his privacy because they concerned possible criminality.

  • August 01, 2025

    Oil Magnate Can't Appeal $324M Arbitration Award

    Britain's Court of Appeal on Friday turned away an oil magnate's challenge to an arbitral award ordering him to pay $324 million owed under a settlement involving China's largest oil and gas producer and supplier, affirming that the appeal was time-barred.

  • August 01, 2025

    AstraZeneca Can't Take Diabetes Drug IP Appeal To Top Court

    The U.K. Supreme Court has refused to consider AstraZeneca's last-ditch bid to revive patent protections for its billion-dollar diabetes drug dapagliflozin, as generic competition prepares to hit the market.

  • August 01, 2025

    Spacey Claims No Memory Of Actor In Old Vic Assault Case

    Kevin Spacey has denied sexually assaulting British actor Ruari Cannon during a 2013 production at the Old Vic theater, telling a London court he has "no recollection of ever meeting" Cannon.

  • August 01, 2025

    Ex-AllSaints Chair In Contempt Over Share Sale Fraud Claims

    A London court ruled Friday that the former chairman of AllSaints was in contempt of court for breaching an order to stop claiming an interest in shares in the high street fashion chain after his fraud allegations were rejected.

Expert Analysis

  • High Court Elects Substance Over Form In Arbitration Dispute

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    The High Court recently found that an arbitral tribunal has jurisdiction over the dispute in Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority v. India, underscoring the importance of aligning treaty interpretation with the goal of fostering investment, while rejecting interpretations that unduly limit investor protections, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.

  • French Plans For Call-In Powers Signal More Merger Scrutiny

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    The French Competition Authority’s intention to draft a call-in mechanism for below-threshold transactions demonstrates a growing appetite to expand national investigation tools that will require a balance of effective control and legal certainty to reduce the burden on merging companies, say lawyers at Linklaters.

  • Decoding Arbitral Disputes: UK Injunctions Across Borders

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    A recent High Court of Justice decision allowing JPMorgan Chase Bank to block VTB Bank from bringing suit in a Russian court provides a seminal reflection on the power of English courts to issue antisuit injunctions when global banking disputes increasingly straddle multiple jurisdictions, says Josep Galvez of 4-5 Gray's Inn.

  • Saxon Woods Ruling Tightens Rules On Director Good Faith

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    The recent Court of Appeal judgment in Saxon Woods v. Costa departs from the High Court's ruling, clarifying that a director's sincere belief they have acted in the company’s best interests is not sufficient to satisfy the statutory requirement to act in good faith, say lawyers at Covington.

  • ICSID Annulment Proceedings Carry High Stakes For System

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    The annulment proceedings brought by Freeport-McMoRan before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, seeking to redress a glaring and prejudicial oversight in its arbitral award against Peru, are significant for delimiting the boundaries of procedural fairness within the ICSID's annulment framework, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.

  • Key Takeaways As EU And UK Impose New Russia Sanctions

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    The European Union and U.K.’s new sanctions on Russia, designating increasing numbers of non-Russian companies in the defense and shipping sectors, mean that organizations must examine from the outset whether a transaction has any nexus with the EU or the U.K., say lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell.

  • Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Prestige's Jurisprudential Legacy

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    The U.K. Supreme Court's recent denial of appeal ended Spain's decades-long quest to enforce an €855 million arbitral judgment against a London insurer, throwing into stark relief the increasingly complex relationship between arbitral sovereignty, foreign state immunity and the shifting terrain of post-Brexit private international law, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.

  • German Ruling Further Restrains Intra-EU Bilateral Arbitration

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    The German Federal Court of Justice recently issued a notable ruling that pushes the invalidation of intra-European Union bilateral investment treaty arbitration into the realm of stand-alone cost decisions, strengthening the EU's legal framework while increasing uncertainty for investors in the region, say attorneys at Linklaters.

  • High Court Ruling Shows Firm Stance On Procedural Integrity

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    The recent High Court decision in Qatar Investment v. Phoenix Ancient Art demonstrates its zero tolerance of procedural failure, serving as a reminder that the financial burden associated with document disclosure will not excuse a party’s failure to comply with court orders, say lawyers at Quillon Law.

  • A Shifting Landscape Of Greater Scrutiny After Data Breaches

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    Recent Information Commissioner's Office fines for personal data breaches and a Home Office consultation signal a shift in the U.K. regulatory landscape, and with an increase in mass actions and resulting exposure, organizations should prepare for potential third-party claims from those incurring consequential losses, say lawyers at Atheria.

  • Decoding Arbitral Disputes: An Update On ICSID Annulment

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    The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes' recent decision in Peteris Pildegovics and SIA North Star v. Kingdom of Norway offers a reasoned and principled contribution to annulment jurisprudence, effectively balancing the competing imperatives of fairness, finality and institutional coherence, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.

  • UK Data Disputes Could Become Competition Class Actions

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    While mass data protection claims have chafed against the procedural restrictions that apply to class actions under U.K. law, it is possible these claims will be brought into the fold of the rapidly growing Competition Appeal Tribunal scene, says Aislinn Kelly-Lyth at Blackstone Chambers.

  • Opinion

    UK Court Of Appeal's FRAND Ruling Is Troubling

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    The U.K. Court of Appeal's recent decision in Optis v. Apple disregards a lower court's extensive factual findings and contradicts its own precedent regarding fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms for cellular patents, says Enrico Bonadio at the University of London.

  • What Santander Fraud Ruling Means For UK Banking Sector

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    A London court's recent judgment in Santander v. CCP Graduate School held that a bank does not owe any duty to third-party victims of authorized push payment fraud, reaffirming the steps banks are already taking to protect their own customers from sophisticated fraud mechanisms, say lawyers at Charles Russell.

  • Arbitral Ruling In EU Fisheries Clash Clarifies Post-Brexit Pact

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    The Permanent Court of Arbitration's recent ruling marks a pivotal moment in the evolving jurisprudence surrounding the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, concluded between the U.K. and the EU after Brexit, and sets an important precedent for interpretation and enforcement of trade and environment clauses in cross-border disputes, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.

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