Orange juice cartel squeezes into Court of Appeal Pogust Goodhead is representing 1,600 orange growers, 22 companies and the Brazillian Association of Citrus Growers in a one-day hearing at the Court of Appeal on Tuesday (2 July) in a suit against the estate of Brazil’s “Orange King”, José Luis Cutrale, who died in 2022. The […]
Bird & Bird and Holman Fenwick Willan are the latest firms to announce pay increases for their newly-qualified solicitors, with the latter rising to £100,000. HFW has increased its pay from £95,000 to £100,000, while Bird & Bird has put in place a slightly lower rise of £3,000 to £98,000. Bird & Bird’s increase comes […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is set to defend mining giant Rio Tinto in a new dispute regarding pollution in Madagascar, The Lawyer can reveal. Leigh Day sent a letter of claim to Rio Tinto on 2 April on behalf of 64 residents in villages near a mine in southeast Madagascar, announcing the dispute publicly the following […]
The universal government of the Catholic Church, the Holy See, appeared in an English court for the first time in history today before Mr Justice Knowles, in a sweltering courtroom on the hottest day of the year so far. This case is one of The Lawyer‘s Top 20 of 2024. From the halls of the Vatican […]
Paul Hastings’ Paris office is set for a major boost in its white collar practice, with the arrival of a team from a local firm. The firm has taken on specialist boutique firm Antonin Lévy & Associés. Its team will join Paul Hastings from September 2024, comprised of three partners and nine associates. Partners Antonin […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has over 20 live investigations ongoing into solicitors and firms who worked on behalf of the Post Office or Royal Mail Group. In a statement released yesterday, the regulator said it is looking into a number of issues raised in debates about the Horizon scandal. Between 2000 and 2015, Post Office […]
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 […]