Harcus Parker received an award for Impact Case of the Year at the Managing IP EMEA Awards 2024 in London. The firm was recognised for its work on Wight & others v BTC Core and others. This included an important judgment in the Court of Appeal in July last year which addressed the requirement of fixation […]
Jenny Morrissey and Edward Argles have written an article on the structuring of funding in representative securities claims for the April 2024 edition of Litigation Funding magazine. The article reviews developments in representative securities claims since the Supreme Court judgment in Lloyd v Google [2021] UKSC 50, which raised the possibility of a ‘bifurcated’ approach to bringing […]
Harbour Litigation Funding have published their 2024 White Paper examining the growth the challenges law firms are facing, and how they are working to overcome them. As part of this, the authors of the paper spoke to 100 leaders at top 200 law firms. The role of AI is a key theme in the report. […]
The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Global Plaintiff Lawyers guide is intended to recognise claimant lawyers ‘for the significant role they play in cases of global import’. Lawdragon note that the named lawyers ‘are standouts in antitrust and competition, investor and shareholder rights, mass torts and aviation accidents’. Lawdragon select lawyers for inclusion through a process which […]
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 […]
Harcus Parker has been ranked for Group Litigation in the 2024 edition of the Chambers UK guide. The strengths identified by Chambers include “a host of very capable technical lawyers”. The guide ranks the firm’s Damon Parker in the top tier for Group Litigation. He is described as a “leader in the field”, and a […]
The Legal 500 rankings for 2024 have been released and Harcus Parker has been ranked in Group Litigation and Civil Fraud. It was also named as a firm to watch in Civil Litigation.
Damon was interviewed by Nigel Farage about the launch of the firm’s PPI GLO.
Harcus Parker has launched its PPI GLO at Birmingham County Court. The PPI GLO has been covered extensively in the national press including This is Money and the Sun.
The firm is delighted to support the setting up of the Ukraine Britain Business Council (UBBC), and to announce that the firm’s Nataliya Yankovska has been appointed as a legal advisor to the organisation. The UBBC is intended to help facilitate trade, investment, and the transfer of knowledge through high level partnerships and business in […]
Matthew Patching and Edward Argles have contributed to the Practical Law Dispute Resolution column on the topic of GLO publicity and defendant financial disclosure.
Partner Jennifer Morrissey and Associate Edward Argles were quoted in an article published today by Investment Week. Jennifer commented on the recent collapse of a number of Home REIT’s charity / CIC tenants and the rent cover payments they have been receiving from property aggregators who have sold property to Home REIT. Edward commented on […]
Ryan Dunleavy, Head of Technology, Media and Communications Litigation at Harcus Parker, spoke yesterday to LBC Radio about the numerous WhatsApp messages given by Matt Hancock to journalist Isabel Oakeshott.
The Court of Appeal (the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, and Carr LJ) today unanimously upheld Cockerill J’s decision to dismiss UBS’s challenge to the jurisdiction of the English courts over claims worth some US$495 million which have been brought against UBS in relation to financing it provided for the acquisition of […]
Spear’s has just released its 2023 rankings for the best reputation and privacy lawyers. The index includes details of practitioners who operate in jurisdictions all around the world. The well-regarded publication recommended Harcus Parker Partner Ryan Dunleavy as a specialist lawyer in the above category, following peer nominations, telephone and face-to-face interviews, data supplied by law […]
Jennifer Morrissey and Edward Argles have written about commercial litigation funders’ liability for adverse costs in the latest edition of Litigation Funding.
At a case management hearing today, the Competition Appeal Tribunal directed that the hearing to determine the proposed class representatives’ applications for what are known as “collective proceedings orders” shall take place between 3 and 5 April 2023
Harcus Parker has today launched a claim on behalf of investors in Home REIT.
The firm is pleased to report that it has been recommended for Claimant Group Litigation in Chambers & Partners’ 2023 guide of UK law firms.
Acting on behalf of the proposed class representatives, Harcus Parker has made applications in the Competition Appeal Tribunal for collective proceedings orders against various Visa and Mastercard entities. The class action relates to the level of the Merchant Interchange Fee Visa and Mastercard have charged to merchants in respect of inter-regional card transactions and/or commercial […]
Harcus Parker has today issued a claim on behalf of hundreds of former and current “Whistletree” customers of TSB against TSB in relation to the level of interest charged on their mortgages. The Claimants originally took out their mortgages with Northern Rock. Their mortgages were sold to TSB in a process which concluded in 2016, […]
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 options for potential claimants. It […]
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 who allege that they were […]
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 (Removal) Act 1919 paved the […]
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.
