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Last week, Harcus Parker issued a letter before action in the proposed claim against Watchstone Group plc (formerly Quindell plc). Several news outlets circulated stories about the letter including The Times, the Daily Mail and The Law Society Gazette. The letter before action is the first step in the potential action…

Damon Parker and Jenny Morrissey are speaking at the Law Society’s Civil Litigations Autumn Conference on October 9th.  Damon will be one of the main speakers at the event and Jenny will be co- chairing the conference in her capacity as a member of the Civil Litigation Committee of the…

Last week the Mirror featured an article about the Tesco claim which included details of the ‘Tesco Equal Pay Map of the UK’ developed by Harcus Sinclair UK Limited. The story was also picked up by the Metro and The Scotsman. We act for Tesco workers through Harcus Sinclair UK…

Edward is speaking at the Banking and Litigation Forum 2019 in London on 13 June. This Legal Week conference is the annual forum for the world’s leading banking litigators. He will be debating the pros and cons of contingency fee agreements Further information about the conference can be found here:

Damon Parker, formerly the head of the litigation practice at Harcus Sinclair LLP, and one of its founding partners, has today, the 29 April 2019, announced the launch of a new litigation firm: Harcus Parker. Harcus Parker will be a commercial litigation practice which can provide a variety of funding…

In 2015, Quindell plc shocked the market by announcing that its £107m profit in 2013 had, in fact been, a £64m loss, and that it had lost £375m in the first half of 2014. Harcus Parker has launched a claim against Quindell (since renamed the Watchstone Group) for institutional investors…

Jenny Morrissey is speaking on the ‘Future of Global Securities Class and Collective Actions’ at the DRRT investor conference in Frankfurt on 4 April 2019. More information about the conference can be found: here.

This March, Jenny Morrissey and Emily Fernando from the Harcus Parker team took part in an important project to create a historical record of women in the law. The First 100 Years project was created to record the progress of women in the law since 1919, when the Sex Disqualification…

Jenny is speaking at the 18th Annual Securities Regulation in Europe Conference.

She will be joining a panel discussing developments in Securities Litigation for Corporate Lawyers. Further information about the conference can be found here.

Damon is speaking at the Trusts and Estates Litigation Forum 2019 in Girona Spain. This Legal Week conference is the annual forum for the world’s leading trust and estate litigators. He will be discussing litigation funding and debating the pros and cons of obtaining litigation funding for trust disputes. Further…

In January 2019, the Court of Appeal handed down a judgment in the Asda Equal Pay case on the issue of ‘comparators’ (Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley [2019] EWCA Civ 44). Jennifer Cassidy and Emily Fernando discuss the implications of this case on other equal pay cases which are proceeding…