ENRC v the director of the Serious Fraud Office, John Gibson and Tony Puddick Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC), represented by Hogan Lovells, reappears in court this week, alleging further claims against the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), former case controller John Gibson and senior investigator Tony Puddick. This trial is the latest to hit the […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has been accused of “vigorously” resisting an application to provide information in the long-running saga between Russian oligarchs Vladimir Chernukhin and Oleg Deripaska. Deripaska and his company Filatona Trading, represented by Quillon, filed an application in September 2021 against Quinn, seeking information relating to another High Court case brought by […]
2024 has already been a memorable year for the English courts. With the Michaelmas term set to begin tomorrow, The Lawyer takes a look at the cases to watch out for this month.
Judgment in Manchester City’s challenge to the Premier League’s associated party transaction (APT) rules may be released in the coming days. The case was filed by the club in February and heard in a private arbitration over two weeks in early June. The proceedings are separate from the disciplinary case brought by the Premier League […]
The £70m landmark construction and cladding dispute that featured in The Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2024 has finally settled, less than a month before it was due to head to trial on 7 October. Mayer Brown-repped Shepherd Construction, a UK-based construction company, was the main contractor for the Northern Quarter mixed-use development in Colindale, London. […]
Herbert Smith Freehills kicked off its fight today in the Commercial Court to strike out a $13.8bn claim against client TPG by jailed Russian billionaire Ziyavudin Magomedov, who made his fortune during Dmitry Medvedev’s presidency. HSF called upon Brick Court’s Mark Howard KC to refute the claim, which alleges that the private equity giant and […]
RPC is set to defend Google in another class action launched against it in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) over alleged anti-competitive practices regarding its UK Google Play Store. Geradin Partners has launched the £1.04bn claim on behalf of class representative and competition law expert Professor Barry Rodger, who represents UK Android app developers. Rodger […]
The long-running battle between the Russian Federation and the former majority shareholders in Yukos Oil must wait until 2026 for a preliminary issues trial, more than a decade after the case was first filed. According to court documents seen by The Lawyer, an eight-day preliminary issues trial is due to begin on 19 January 2026, […]
Harbottle & Lewis is representing parenting website Mumsnet in a pre-action dispute with artificial intelligence giant OpenAI. Mumsnet claims that the developer has scraped billions of words of its content against the site’s terms of use. It is claiming copyright infringement, breach of terms of use and database right infringement, and has written to openAI […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. As the Court year wraps up today, The Lawyer’s weekly litigation content will pause until the Michaelmas term starts in October. Before that, however, we dive into the most high-profile and controversial judgment of the year: Mr Justice Robin […]
Mercedes F1 team files for disclosure from phone companies Mercedes Grand Prix, the legal entity behind F1 team Mercedes AMG Petronas, has filed an application for a Norwich Pharmacal Order (NPO) to the King’s Bench division, according to the public filing system. The filing, which targets mobile network operators Vodafone and Lebara, was filed on […]
State immunity and spyware in Bahraini appeal Representatives for the Kingdom of Bahrain are set to appear before the Court of Appeal to argue in favour of state immunity in a one day hearing today (29 July). The island kingdom, represented by Volterra Fietta, is appealing a decision found in favour of Bahraini activists Dr […]