Welcome to The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the litigation market. Did you enjoy your ride on the Truss-coaster? As Rishi Sunak stood outside Downing Street on Tuesday morning, a light sprinkling of stability seemed to fall on the country. Everything’s relative though. Just take Dominic Raab’s return to the MoJ, which marks the […]
Billion-pound trial against Argentine Republic begins Kicking off today is the mammoth case worth an estimated £1.7bn as the Argentine Republic and Bank of New York Mellon get set to defend themselves in a bond debt securities claim. The claims stems from Argentina’s bond crisis, which began in 2005. The South American country needed a […]
High Court slaps down Magistrates’ Court ruling in sanctioned Russian oligarch “test case” The High Court ruled on Tuesday that the Magistrates’ Court did not “undertake the task required of it at all” and set aside its July judgment in a freezing order case involving a sanctioned Russian oligarch. The National Crime Agency (NCA) took […]
Update: 9 February 2023 This claim was filed by ClientEarth in early February 2023. The directors of oil giant Shell have instructed Slaughter and May to defend a climate-related claim that is set to be brought against them by environmental law organisation ClientEarth. ClientEarth has accused Shell’s 13 executive and non-executive directors in a letter […]
Check in with The Lawyer each week as we spot the most important new claims hitting the courts and assess what they say about the litigation landscape.
Thai businessmen fraud case begins Kicking off on Monday for a whopping 17 weeks is the high-profile case that alleges fraud against a leading renewable energy company in Thailand. The $2bn case alleged that former manager of Wind Energy Holding, Nop Narongdej, along with several other individuals and entities including the Siam Commercial Bank, have […]
This week: Good news for Quinn as CAT refuses to throw out FX dispute, and a victory for RPC on a Russian bank retrial decision.
Welcome to your second edition of The Hearing, The Lawyer’s indispensable weekly insight into the litigation market. You can’t leave your house these days without someone running past you screaming “recession!” (still, better than that time when we actually couldn’t leave the house), and now you’ll be bombarded by The Lawyer too, as this week’s instalment […]
Check in with The Lawyer each week as we spot the most important new claims hitting the courts and assess what they say about the litigation landscape.
Major cryptocurrency exchanges accused of collusion have instructed City litigators to challenge a £9.9bn consumer class action at the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), The Lawyer can reveal. The Lawyer understands that Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, is being represented by Allen & Overy’s London litigation head Arnondo Chakrabarti and partner Kristina Nordlander. San Francisco-based […]
Scottish indyref2 case hits the Supreme Court Starting on Tuesday for two days, the Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC will put her case forward to the UK Supreme Court regarding the Sottish independence referendum. The case has had a political push from First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon, who asked Bain KC to bring the […]
