Harcus Parker, working in coalition with Hausfeld, Milberg, and Charles Lyndon, acted for the Respondents in a key Court of Appeal hearing concerning the validity of post-PACCAR litigation funding arrangements. Each of the firms represents class representatives in collective proceedings currently before the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CICC, Kent, Neill and Gutmann). At first instance, the […]

Is it really a win? The UK Supreme Court’s PACCAR judgment disrupted long-standing assumptions about how litigation funding works, and upended many funding agreements.1 The Civil Justice Council has now made fifty-eight recommendations, including the reversal of PACCAR through legislation. Some commentators have cast this as a victory for access to justice and the continued […]

We are pleased to announce that seven Harcus Parker lawyers have been recognised in the 2025 edition of the Lawdragon 500 Global Plaintiff Lawyers guide. Now in its second year, the guide honours what Lawdragon describes as “global gladiators bringing a newfound and empowered voice to claimants throughout the world”. The selection process combines rigorous […]

The Civil Justice Council (the “CJC”)’s Litigation Funding Working Group, co-chaired by Dr John Sorabji and Mr Justice Simon Picken, has published an interim report and opened a consultation on the current landscape of litigation funding. Harcus Parker Partner Jennifer Morrissey sits as a representative of the Law Society on the wider consultation group to […]

Harcus Parker has secured a new ranking as a Dispute Resolution Specialist Firm in the Chambers UK 2025 guide.  In addition, the firm continues to hold its ranking for Claimant Group Litigation.   The Dispute Resolution Specialist Firm ranking, introduced by Chambers for the first time this year, highlights law firms specialising in dispute resolution, and […]

Harcus Parker has been recognised in the 2025 Legal 500 UK Guide, with several of the firm’s practice areas receiving rankings.  The firm is ranked as a leading firm for commercial litigation, civil fraud, and claimant group litigation.  Damon Parker is ranked as a leading partner for claimant group litigation. Highlights from the Editorial Commentary […]

We are very pleased to announce that the firm’s Legal Operations Director, Jennifer Cassidy, and two Associates, Olivia Selley and Jennifer Harvey, have been promoted to Senior Associate roles. Jennifer Cassidy was recently admitted to the roll of solicitors, but has been operating at a senior level for some time. She joined the firm when […]

In a significant win for UK merchants, the Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled in favour of certifying a set of four collective actions – brought by proposed class representatives Commercial and Interregional Card Claims I and II Limited (“CICC I” and “CICC II”) – against Mastercard and Visa. These claims sit alongside both the individual merchant claims within the “Umbrella Proceedings” and the Merricks consumer collective action.

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.

Jennifer is a long-standing member of the Law Society’s Dispute Resolution Committee and had been a key part of the annual conference organising committee.

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 […]

Cockerill J today handed down judgment in Kwok and others v UBS [EWHC245 (Comm)] on jurisdiction under the 2007 Lugano Convention. Her decision considered the location of “the place of the damage” in the context of pure economic loss claims under Article 5.3 and on tort claims “arising from the operations of a branch” under […]

Spear’s has released its 2022 rankings for the best reputation and privacy lawyers for high-net-worth individuals. 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 […]

Harcus Parker has recruited two competition specialists to its fast growing Competition Law practice headed by Jeremy Robinson and Tom Ross.  The firm is joined by Pierre Welsh and Alvaro Almeida who have moved from large city practices to join Jeremy and Tom. We are delighted to welcome them both. Find out more about our new […]