A team from Mishcon de Reya and Twenty Essex has emerged victorious in a decades-long legal battle named as one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2024. The case, brought by the Arnold & Porter-repped Czech Republic against Liechtenstein blood plasma company Diag Human and its owner Joseph Stava, sought to overturn a 2022 […]
The president of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), Mr Justice Marcus Smith, has been reprimanded for serious misconduct after he wrote a love letter to a junior colleague. The decision was handed down yesterday (8 August) by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO), and is the most severe sanction short of removal from office. The […]
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, […]
Former clients of Rosling King have prevailed in the latest round of a long-running dispute that has seen the firm accused of “aimlessness” in how it conducted litigation which cost its former client more than £5.7m in legal fees. In a judgment handed down yesterday (31 July) between property investment company Tonstate Group (in liquidation) […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s “professional connections” with an arbitrator led to apparent bias in an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) case, a High Court judge has ruled. Aiteo, Africa’s largest private integrated energy company, brought a challenge before the English High Court alleging a “serious irregularity” after the ICC issued four arbitration awards against it between […]
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 […]
Eversheds Sutherland has introduced a new arbitration and complex commercial disputes practice at its Warsaw office with the hire of three lawyers from local firm Kochański & Partners. The practice is expected to support both local and international clients in proceedings before arbitration institutions and Poland’s common courts. It will work as part of Eversheds’ […]
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 […]
In a win for the Government Legal Department, the High Court has ruled that it was legal for the previous government to ban the prescription of puberty blockers to under-18s experiencing gender dysphoria or gender incongruence. Russell-Cooke, who represented the claimant, trans activist organisation TransActual, and an anonymised claimant who had been seeking puberty blockers, […]
The long-awaited tuna bonds judgment has been handed down today, with Mr Justice Knowles finding largely in favour of Peters & Peters-repped Republic of Mozambique. One of The Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2023, which featured more than 10 firms and over 40 barristers, Mozambique brought the lawsuit against shipbuilding company Privinvest, banks including Credit […]
Stewarts’ revenue hit £95.2m in 2023/24, up 12 per cent from the previous year’s £85.1m, as the firm eyes sector and headcount growth. Net profit rose by 19 per cent from £25.6m to £30.4m, while profit per equity partner increased by 16.3 per cent to £1.42m. The disputes-only firm agreed on a new lease for […]