The Judgment of the Supreme Court in R (on the application of PACCAR Inc and others) v Competition Appeal Tribunal and others[1](“PACCAR”) provoked litigation funders and class action claimants (amongst others) to reconsider whether their funding arrangements were enforceable. The recent judgment of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (“CAT”) in Commercial and Interregional Card Claims I & II v Mastercard and Visa on the enforceability of funding arrangements, sheds more light on the CAT’s approach in determining whether a litigation funding arrangement is enforceable for the purposes of collective proceedings post PACCAR.

Harcus Parker represents Commercial and Interregional Card Claims I & II at the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

The trial of several preliminary issues in the Whistletree Mortgage Prisoner Litigation against TSB Bank is due to commence in the High Court on 22 July 2024 and last for four days.  This is the first of the ‘mortgage prisoner’ cases to go to trial and could set a precedent for all mortgage prisoners to […]

The firm’s Jenny Morrissey is due to speak at the Law Society’s Dispute Resolution Section’s event on big trends to watch out for in commercial dispute resolution in 2024.   The other speakers and Jenny will discuss the trends and new challenges faced by commercial litigators in the English courts, including Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), the […]

HHJ Keyser KC (sitting as a Judge of the High Court) has handed down judgment dismissing the Defendants’ appeal on the issue of security for costs in Lazarichev & Ors v Lyndou [2024] EWHC 8 (Ch).  In dismissing the appeal, the Judge referred to the “thorough and carefully reasoned judgment” of Master Pester at first […]

We are pleased to report that Harcus Parker is involved in one of the cases featured in The Lawyer’s recently published Top 20 Cases of 2024.  Harcus Parker acts for the Claimants in Dr Wright & Ors v BTC Core & Ors in relation to various intellectual property claims and are therefore involved in the Joint Trial […]