An employee succeeded in a disability discrimination case which found that her employer had unfairly dismissed her due to her health issues. The significant damages (£1.1m) reflected the fact that…
The Claimant in Fiona Lorraine Philipp v Barclays Bank UK PLC [2022] EWCA Civ 318 went to the Court of Appeal recently with judgment delivered on 14 March 2022. Mrs…
On 23 February 2022, Mr Justice Foxton handed down judgment in the case of Hotel Portfolio II UK Limited (In Liquidation) & Elizabeth Aird-Brown (as Hotel Portfolio II UK Limited…
2022 saw us celebrate Spring Law’s 20th anniversary and as we move forward, we continue to be true to our core values of excellence, integrity and commitment to clients. This…
In The Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance and others, the High Court ruled that insurers, under certain circumstances, might be liable to pay out on claims to businesses forced…
Company directors and insolvency practitioners responsible for the carrying out of furlough schemes in response to Covid-19 must consider their financial and legal implications. However, this exercise may be complicated…
Developments in the statutory provisions governing corporate entities during the Covid-19 crisis On 20 May 2020, the UK Government introduced the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill (‘the Bill’) into Parliament.…
A common clause in banking facility agreements is what is called a ‘material adverse change’ (‘MAC’) clause. These clauses cover provisions for unpredictable events that could cause an adverse change…
At the start of April 2020 the UK Supreme Court passed judgement confirming that employers cannot be held vicariously liable for data breaches of their employees, where an employee has…
As people cautiously return to the office in the coming months, they will find a workplace transformed by the coronavirus. The pandemic has and will place significant stress on businesses,…
The common law doctrine of ‘frustration’ offers an alternative source of release from contractual performance, where (for example) a party cannot rely on a ‘Force Majeure’ clause to excuse its…
The reality of the Covid-19 outbreak is forcing businesses to adapt to a changing economic environment. In some cases, businesses are struggling to meet their contractual obligations and may seek…
It’s great to be appreciated following three years of heavily contested High Court contract and patent litigation! “Tom, Dick & Harry” are code names for confidential trade secrets...
Following inquiry into green finance, Environmental Audit Committee concludes large companies and asset owners - such as pension funds - should be forced to report their exposure to climate change…
Leading obesity experts are considering litigation against the food industry in the light of emerging research suggesting that junk food marketing could hijack a child’s brain. Neuromarketing is of growing…
The court has ruled that Bodo community in Nigeria, which had been involved in a protracted legal battle with Shell over the cleanup of two 2008 oil spills, should retain…
Lawyers for the Bodo community in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta, which was devastated by two major oil spills a decade ago, went to court in London on Tuesday to fend…
Sir John Kingman, the head of an independent review into the audit, accountant and actuary regulator the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), has today (Friday 18 May) announced details of the…
Insys Therapeutics Inc said on Tuesday that it believed a previously estimated $150 million would be sufficient to cover expenses from an ongoing litigation related to the company’s sales practises.…
Manolete Partners, which focuses on taking over claims from liquidators of insolvent companies, is the latest litigation funder to weigh up a float on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Chief…
A unit of Panasonic Corp agreed to pay about $280 million on Monday in a deal with the U.S. government to resolve criminal and civil charges that the company falsified…
Publishers say Google’s new ad rules claim ‘broad rights’ over the data they collect, while leaving them exposed to data protection litigation. Publisher trade groups representing thousands of newspapers and…
Litigation funder Vannin Capital is working with advisory firm Evercore on plans for a London float that could value it at close to £1bn. Sky News reports that the litigation…
Barclays has been pushed into a first quarter loss after paying $2bn (£1.4bn) to settle a lawsuit in the US over the sale of mortgage-backed securities. The bank also put…
When glass panels fall from multi-storey buildings, quite understandably, the press and television take an interest. It is not an everyday occurrence when glass panels, forming part of the refurbishment…
Car owners in England and Wales wishing to sue Volkswagen for diesel emissions fraud have seven months to join the case at London’s High Court, which on Thursday appointed law…
Apple Inc.’s war with Qualcomm Inc. over its lucrative use of patents has spilled into a UK court. But Qualcomm says their legal fight should stay firmly across the Atlantic.…
Lawyers for more than 50,000 UK car owners began a lawsuit against Volkswagen Group in London's High Court in a battle for compensation over a diesel-emissions cheating scandal that has…
The government has hinted at passing a British version of the so-called Magnitsky Act, a US law that freezes assets and imposes travel bans on Russians suspected of corruption and…
Two businessmen who want Google to stop linking their names to media reports about past crimes are waiting to see if they have won High Court fights. Both say their…
Europcar net profits fell by almost half in 2017 as it took a €71 million non-recurring charge. This related to merger and acquisition fees, “unexpected” UK litigation-related costs and headquarters…
In just a few short years, litigation finance has become an important part of the commercial litigation landscape. The number of lawyers who said their firms had used litigation finance…
BlackBerry has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps, arguing that they copied technology and features from BlackBerry Messenger. Litigation over patent infringement is…
One of the UK's biggest electronics retailers has collapsed into administration after talks with buyers failed to secure a sale. Maplin, which has more than 200 stores and 2,300 staff,…
A plumber's legal battle for working rights will be closely watched by "gig economy" workers when it reaches the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Gary Smith, who worked for Pimlico Plumbers…
HMRC has defeated a BBC presenter in the first IR35 ruling in nine years. In the case of Christa Ackroyd Media (CAM) Ltd v Revenue & Customs, former ‘Look North’…
Facebook's failure to make people aware that it was collecting their data for advertising purposes was illegal, a German court has found. The Berlin Regional Court ruled that Facebook did…
Therium Capital Management, the litigation funder behind Noel Edmonds against Lloyds Banking Group, yesterday announced the completion of £300m in new funding, thought to be led by US insurer Amtrust…
Google's sister company Waymo sued Uber over the alleged theft of self-driving technology from it by a former employee. Uber will pay $245 million (£177 million) in the form of…
Google is facing a class action lawsuit over problems with the original Pixel phone. The class action complaint was filed this week, with plaintiffs alleging that Google was already aware…
Tesco is facing its first – and the largest ever in UK history – equal pay claim, in which claimant employees are seeking a massive £4bn from the supermarket giant.…
A trial pitting two of the biggest players in self-drive technology against each other has begun in San Francisco. Ride-sharing firm Uber is being sued by Waymo, the self-driving company…
Broadband providers, BT and sibling EE, have today gone to the Supreme Court in London to appeal two key aspects of an earlier ruling, which forced major UK ISPs to…
TV presenter Noel Edmonds has secured millions of pounds of litigation funding for a legal battle with Lloyds Banking Group over the actions of HBOS before it was acquired. Therium…
VW is facing litigation in the UK — and in other jurisdictions — in the wake of claims that it manufactured and sold cars with diesel engines that failed to…
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has dismissed the government's challenge to a ruling that transitional pension arrangements for more than 200 judges amount to unlawful age discrimination. However, after nearly three…
Research published by Thomson Reuters this week shows that the UK’s four biggest banks’ litigation and regulatory provisions make up over half of the FTSE 100’s litigation costs. The research…
Britain’s competition regulator delivered a blow to Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday, but he’s still in the game. 21st Century Fox’s 11.7 billion pound bid for Sky would give the 86-year-old…
The European Court of Human Rights has held that a Spanish employer's decision to install hidden video cameras to monitor suspected thefts by a number of supermarket cashiers violated the…
On 3 January 2018, the Department for Education (DfE) published updated privacy notice model documents for local authorities that aim to assist their compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation…
The total value and volume of reported fraud in 2017 hit a 15-year high, at over £2bn, with substantial increases in fraud in the financial services sector, according to research…
The EAT has upheld an employment tribunal’s decision that an employee who raised compliance issues purely out of self-interest did not make a qualifying disclosure for the purpose of whistleblowing…
A judgment on what is thought to be the largest civil case in Guernsey's history handed down on 4 September by the island's Royal Court cleared Carlyle Capital Corporation, a…
The High Court has found that an employer, Wm Morrisons Supermarkets PLC, was vicariously liable for the deliberate and criminal disclosure of co-workers’ personal data by a rogue employee. This…
For warranty claims to be valid, a claimant must give notice in accordance with the notice provisions for breach of warranty in a sale and purchase agreement. This was underlined…
A recent decision of the High Court has considered legal privilege – the rule in law that communications between a lawyer and solicitor are confidential. In the Matter of Edwardian…
An employee who was told that he was being dismissed resigned and brought a breach of contract claim. The employer had misled the employee as to the real reason for…
The Law Society will seek permission to intervene in a landmark dispute between the Serious Fraud Office and mining company the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation which could reset the parameters…
Arbitrations are often favoured by companies as an alternative to the Courts in order to resolve disputes. The main reason for this preference is that arbitrations subject to English law…
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) has dismissed an appeal against a lower tribunal's decision that Uber drivers were workers for the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996, the National…
Fears over privacy and the application of GDPR, concern over lax rules for spies, and the omission of regulation on fake news were just some of the issues raised at…
The law relating to harassment and bullying, as it currently stands, is an amalgam of statute law (Equality Act 2010) and common law. “Harassment” and “bullying” are terms which are…
Directors can be personally liable for their conduct or if they breach certain rules and regulations imposed by English and EU law. These liabilities can range from the risk inherent…
The Court of Appeal has decided that, in a whistleblowing dismissal case, it is irrelevant that the employer genuinely believed that the employee's disclosure was not protected. A disclosure will…
The Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has warned businesses that there's no time to delay in preparing for "the biggest change to data protection law for a generation". In a YouTube…
The value of a brand is not just reflected on the balance sheet. Employees can affect the value of a brand in a number of ways. Employees are visible, both…