Uber has been hit with a new claim in the Commercial Court from some of London’s biggest taxi companies, according to the public filing system. Filed yesterday (24 June), Mishcon de Reya leads for Addison Lee, Green Tomato Cars, Brunel Carriage and Comcab (London) in a part 7 ‘Other’ claim filed against Uber London, Dutch […]
Coldplay has settled its multimillion-pound dispute with former manager David Holmes, The Lawyer can reveal. Holmes, who managed the band for 17 years from 2005 to 2022, initially sued band members Chris Martin, Will Champion, Jonny Buckland and Guy Berryman for £10m in August last year. Engaging Bird & Bird’s London office head Phil Sherrell, […]
The Jesus and Mary Chain and King Crimson file against rights management company One of the largest rights management companies in the UK, Performing Right Society (PRS), has been hit with a new competition claim filed on 20 June. The part 7 claim has been brought by smaller management company PACE Rights Management alongside members […]
Carter-Ruck has been instructed by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage following a Mail on Sunday story published yesterday (23 June). The story was headlined “Zelensky: Farage is infected with ‘virus of Putin’” and quoted the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, condemning him. A source in the Ukrainian presidential office is understood to have told the BBC […]
Bech-Bruun has lost a handful partners to rival firms, with Norwegian-headquartered firm Schjødt and big five rival Gorrissen Federspiel both profiting from the exits. Litigation partners Søren Lundsgaard and Arianne Svardal-Stelmer will join Schjødt in the firm’s most substantial disputes expansion of its 18-month old Copenhagen office. The pair joined Bech-Bruun in a merger between […]
The Holy See appears in the English courts for the first time The Vatican, Harrods, a mafia-hunting judge, and an alleged multimillion-pound fraud feature in this case. This Commercial Court dispute, starting Wednesday (26 June) for 14 days, sees the Holy See (the Catholic Church’s universal government) square off against management companies Athena Capital, WRM […]
The administrators of collapsed firm Axiom Ince are set to receive £3.3m after an order from the High Court on 12 June. Two companies owned by former Axiom Ince boss Pragnesh Modhwadia and his brother Uttam Modhwadia – Brockley Hill Ltd and Narya SVP No 4 Ltd – went into liquidation and administration respectively in […]
Some of the world’s largest salmon producers are being hit with a new class action, alleging unlawful collusion to increase salmon prices for consumers. Simmons & Simmons is representing class representative Waterside, a special purpose vehicle represented by Anne Heal, former OpenReach managing director of strategy and regulatory affairs group director at BT. The claim […]
Mrs Justice Joanna Smith has rebuked the Environment Agency (EA) and High Speed Two (HS2) for their taxpayer-funded litigation in judgment handed down today (21 June) at the Technology and Construction Court. In the conclusion to her judgment, she said: “By way of postscript, I observe that it is extremely unfortunate that these two bodies, […]
At The Lawyer Awards this week, seven teams were shortlisted for the Litigation team of the year prize. They were Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Mayer Brown, Lewis Silkin, Mishcon de Reya, TLT, and joint entries from Browne Jacobson and Bevan Brittan, and Addleshaw Goddard and McDermott Will & Emery. While Addleshaws and McDermott, and […]
The Competition Appeal Tribunal has handed down a judgment that time bars almost a third of the infringement period in the Merricks/Mastercard class action, as well as a fifth of the total claim, according to the defendant’s lawyers at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Class representative Walter Merricks’ claim had been brought to cover the period between […]
Plans to drill an oil well in Surrey have been halted as the Supreme Court today (20 June) ruled in favour of climate campaigners, a year after the UK’s top court heard the case. Leigh Day secured the win on behalf of former Surrey resident Sarah Finch, who brought the claim in 2020 on behalf […]