In 2022, the DOJ and the SEC resolved a total of ten corporate enforcement actions under the FCPA, more than double the number in the previous year. While the average corporate penalties only slightly increased to $168...more
UK Supreme Court gives important judgment on directors’ “creditor duty” The UK Supreme Court in BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA and ors [2022] UKSC 25 has given an important judgment clarifying the nature of the so-called “creditor...more
10/7/2022
/ Board of Directors ,
Commercial Bankruptcy ,
Creditors ,
Debt Financing ,
Debt Restructuring ,
Dischargeable Debts ,
Insolvency ,
Shareholders ,
UK ,
UK Insolvency Act ,
UK Supreme Court
Will 2022 be seen as the year in which the gates finally opened for damages claims in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT)?...more
In a significant development for environmental litigation in the U.K., the English Court of Appeal has allowed a £5 billion damages claim brought by around 200,000 Brazilian individuals and other persons to proceed against...more
Welcome to the second edition of the UK Litigation Review—an annual publication focused on outcomes, trends and developments in civil litigation over the past year of relevance to both practitioners and clients.
This...more
Prospective Class Action Against Google is Stopped -
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The UK Supreme Court has handed down its much anticipated judgment in Lloyd v Google LLC. Google has successfully appealed against the Court of Appeal’s...more
This is the first edition of UK Litigation Review—an annual publication focused on outcomes, trends and developments in civil litigation over the past year of relevance to both practitioners and clients.
This publication...more
The U.K. Supreme Court has handed victory to a group of British retailers (the “respondents”) in a long-running dispute with Mastercard and Visa Europe (the “appellants”) finding that the default “multilateral interchange...more
The English High Court has recently handed down a long-awaited judgment concerning a claim for damages against a provider of Self Invested Personal Pension schemes (“SIPPs”)....more
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Richard Lloyd, a “champion of consumer protection” and former director of the consumer rights group Which?, is seeking to bring a representative damages claim against Google, on behalf of more than four...more
10/22/2019
/ Corporate Counsel ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Google ,
iPhone ,
Personal Data ,
UK Data Protection Act ,
UK Supreme Court
In the recent case of Lamesa Investments Ltd v Cynergy Bank Ltd [2019] EWHC 1877 (Comm), the High Court upheld the bank’s attempt to avoid a common banking dilemma: the ‘double jeopardy’ of being contractually liable to make...more