We are pleased to announce that Student Group Claim members have agreed a settlement with UCL. The settlement represents a positive end to UCL students’ Court case where they sought to obtain financial compensation from the university for the periods when teaching was moved online and libraries were closed during the pandemic. Shimon Goldwater, partner […]
Summary: focus on improving procedure and distribution of damages 1. Opt-out collective actions in the UK are assailed by challenges to their funding and questions about their legitimacy. The former are fuelled by the Supreme Court’s ruling in PACCAR and ongoing litigation; the latter from a long campaign by certain large business groups designed to […]
Harcus Parker has successfully represented Soprim Construction in the latest stage of a £135 million enforcement action. This important victory marks another step forward in securing justice for our client. Read the full announcement here.
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, […]
