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Holding court – cases of the year
Disputes Yearbook 2024From group actions to competition claims and ESG-related litigation, 2024 is set for an array of complex and multifaceted disputes, with the stars of the Bar out in force. LB analyses the cases of the year
Inside this Edition
Groundhog Day?
Disputes Yearbook 2024A quick scan of the inevitable January opinion pieces predicting trends in the litigation market for the year ahead gives a fairly consistent view of topics we are likely to see. Against a backdrop of continued economic and geopolitical instability, ongoing inflation, high interest rates and supply chain disruption, commentators foresee an increase in insolvency-related …
Holding court – cases of the year
Disputes Yearbook 2024From group actions to competition claims and ESG-related litigation, 2024 is set for an array of complex and multifaceted disputes, with the stars of the Bar out in force. LB analyses the cases of the year
Gormsen v Meta
Disputes Yearbook 2024Following the refusal of the CAT to allow Dr Gormsen to commence collective proceedings in February 2023, a hearing at the start of January considered the reformulated claim. The revised claim alleged that Meta had abused its dominant position through its collection of ‘off-Facebook data’, and had combined this with data gathered on the platform …
Justin LePatourel v BT
Disputes Yearbook 20242018 saw Ofcom decide that BT held significant market power in relation to stand-alone landline customers, finding that the company had been overcharging customers by at least £7 a month. Due to the significant market power exerted by BT, Ofcom and BT agreed to reduce its prices going forward. However, compensation was not provided for …
Train tickets cases
Disputes Yearbook 2024Gutmann v Govia Thameslink Railway, Govia Ltd, The Go-Ahead Group, Keolis Ltd, MTR South Western, Stagecoach South Western, London & South Eastern Railway, and Secretary of State for Transport The train tickets cases continue to move through the courts, with trial one set to take place in June and July. Issues linked to the alleged …
Shepherd Construction v Kingspan & Ors
Disputes Yearbook 2024Building contractor Shepherd Construction is bringing a claim valued at almost £70m against 12 defendants, including building materials company Kingspan in the first dispute to consider the new cause of action against cladding manufacturers introduced in the Building Safety Act 2022. The dispute concerns four cladding systems used on a mixed-use development in Colindale, London. …
Serco
Disputes Yearbook 2024Serco hits the High Court at the start of June in the first s90A securities group action to go to trial. Claimants allege that they were shareholders of Serco and acquired, held, or disposed of shares in Serco between 2006 and 2013, asserting that they suffered loss due to untrue or misleading statements published by …
Municipio de Mariana & Ors v BHP Group
Disputes Yearbook 2024Described by one London disputes head as ‘the biggest class action ever’, Municipio de Mariana & Ors v BHP Group sees a claimant class of more than 700,000 bringing claims for damages in excess of £36bn arising from the 2015 collapse of Brazil’s Fundão Dam. On 5 November 2015 the dam suffered a catastrophic failure. …
Mastercard proceedings
Disputes Yearbook 2024Complex claims are being brought against Mastercard and Visa in an ongoing decade-long saga involving over 1,800 corporate claimants across the hospitality, arts, financial services, and leisure sectors. With three different strands of cases – Merricks v Mastercard, collective cards, and umbrella proceedings – lawyers involved are finding themselves in court almost weekly. The first …
Russian aircraft claims
Dispute Yearbook 2024In line with the trend towards mega-trials, the Commercial Court in October is due to hear the highly publicised Russian aircraft insurance claims, with aircraft lessors bringing multiple proceedings across a range of jurisdictions. The losses arise from the detention of hundreds of commercial aircraft in Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine and the …
Securities litigation in the UK: A changing landscape
Disputes Yearbook 2024Stewarts look at the UK financial market, with special focus on FSMA
Perspectives: Adrian Chopin
Disputes Yearbook 2024‘Never forget you are there to do a deal, not to burn the other side to the ground’ – Bench Walk co-founder Adrian Chopin on top trumps, pompous lawyer language and all-staff email calamities
Two themes in arbitration cases before the English courts: state parties and the nature and extent of the court’s pro-arbitration approach
Disputes Yearbook 2024Stewarts on some recent developments in arbitration in the UK
The UK mediation sector
Disputes yearbook 2024Independent Mediators’ provide insight into the recent developments in the mediation sector in the UK
Class/collective actions
Disputes yearbook 2024Mayer Brown discusses the importance of businesses understanding their exposure
A focus on ESG litigation
Disputes Yearbook 2024Osborne Clarke on how seriously companies should take greenwashing accusations