This week it is bad news for Baker McKenzie, as Star China’s judicial review application against the Ofcom decision was dismissed. Meanwhile, class has ended for Leigh Day and the parents revolting over an academy school network. Star China’s judicial review application against Ofcom dismissed Television channel operator Star China Media, represented by Baker McKenzie, […]
There’s an international theme to this week’s edition of Our Verdict. Morocco, Mozambique and Spain are all centre stage, while Blackstone Chambers, Carter-Ruck and Peters & Peters all celebrate wins. Meanwhile, bucking the trend, art is back in the headlines as RPC’s aristocrat client failed to prove negligence against her art dealer. Court of Appeal […]
This week we have seen Pinsent Masons secure a win for a Qatari skeikh and Freeths has good news as a €10m claim against its client Dawsongroup is dropped.
Claim over Russian oligarch’s estate proceeds to trial A claim against the ex-wife (Galina Besharova) of the late Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, made by his estate, will proceed to trial. Berezovsky’s estate seeks the repayment of £2.5m, a claim which Besharova failed to have struck out in the High Court. Besharova and Berezovsky divorced in […]
It’s been a big week for local councils, regulators and the police as three heavy judgments rolled in. Two local councils’ in-house legal teams failed to extend interim injunctions that blocked the accommodation of asylum seekers in local hotels last Friday. The spotlight shone on the Met Police as the decisions made in a police […]
This week it’s bad news for Mishcon and Lord Wolfson as its client’s trial was delayed thanks to sanctions on VTB. However, it’s good news for the FCA with its market abuse claim against former directors of Globo allowed to continue, despite some of its evidence being criticised as an abuse of process by the […]
War of the supermarket signs: Court of Appeal rules against Bird & Bird client Tesco has been granted permission to advance bad faith allegations against rival Lidl, in the latest round of the trademark tussle between the supermarket chains. The dispute centres around Tesco’s blue and yellow sign used in its Clubcard Prices advertising, which […]
This week it’s good news for Simmons as an application against the firm has been thrown out. But it’s bad news for Eversheds Sutherland as a client’s case is found to have no “realistic prospect of success”. Simmons & Simmons battles off all allegations of failing to protect confidential information about former client Back in […]
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 […]
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.
NEW: As the first judgments of the new court term begin to trickle through, The Lawyer has selected the need-to-know decisions from the past week. With a rundown of the latest information, along with legal line-ups, we’re here to make sure you don’t miss a thing.