Holds Findings Made by European Courts Cannot Be Relied on in Different Context in Other Proceedings -
On November 6, 2020 the U.K. Supreme Court handed down a judgment relating to the Servier U.K. competition damages...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
On 26 June 2020, the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (the “Act”) introduced the biggest reforms in a generation of U.K. insolvency law. It also implemented several temporary changes to both insolvency and company...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
The English Courts will continue this year to consider several issues that will shape the future of private damages actions for infringements of competition law....more
The English Court of Appeal has granted an anti-suit injunction in favour of our client ENKA Insaat ve Sanayi AS restraining an entity in the Chubb insurance group from pursuing proceedings commenced in the Russian courts in...more
Force Majeure, Impossibility and Frustration under New York and English Law -
Force Majeure. As with many other industries around the world, supply arrangements in the aviation industry have suffered major disruption as a...more
Following the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) that was first reported in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic on March 11, 2020....more
3/13/2020
/ Contract Terms ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Force Majeure Clause ,
Infectious Diseases ,
International Arbitration ,
Performance Standards ,
Public Health ,
Risk Management ,
Suppliers ,
Supply Chain ,
Supply Contracts
Following closely behind the Jet2 decision (see our note, Court of Appeal Gives Important New Guidance on Legal Advice Privilege), the Court of Appeal has again turned its attention to privilege, this time in relation to the...more
It is often taken for granted that only the named parties to a contract can enforce it. The English Court of Appeal has recently considered an important derogation from that assumption in the context of an arbitration claim....more
Case Summary -
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