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Harcus Parker Secures New Rankings in Chambers UK 2025

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…

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Harcus Parker Recognised by Legal 500 in its 2025 UK Guide 

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….

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Harcus Parker welcomes three Senior Associate promotions

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….

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Managing IP Impact Case of the Year

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…

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Structuring funding in representative securities claims

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…

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Eight lawyers named in the 2024 Lawdragon 500 Global Plaintiff Lawyers guide

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…

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The Enforceability of Funding Arrangements after PACCAR
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…
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Trial date for Whistletreee Mortgage Prisoner Litigation

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…

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Jenny Morrissey due to speak at Law Society event

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…

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Harcus Parker acts for successful Respondent in High Court appeal

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”…

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The Lawyer Top 20 Cases 2024

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…

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Harcus Parker ranked in Chambers UK 2024

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…

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Harcus Parker ranked in Spear’s for the third year running

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…

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Claims issued in the Whistletree Mortgage Prisoners group litigation

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…

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Kwok & Ors v UBS – judgment handed down in jurisdiction challenge

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…

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Harcus Parker ranked in Spear’s for the second year running

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,…

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Lateral hires bolsters Harcus Parker’s Competition Practice

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…

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Harcus Parker’s second trainee qualifies.

Harcus Parker is delighted to announce the qualification of its second trainee, Edward Argles. Edward qualified in January 2022. Edward joins the ranks of Harcus Parker’s home grown associates closely following Olivier Altymer who qualified with the firm in September 2021. 

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Harcus Parker acting in one of the Top 20 cases of 2022

We are delighted that one of our cases has featured in the top 20 cases for 2022 in the Lawyer magazine: Suppipat v Narongdej and 16 others. The Harcus Parker team, headed by Adam Zoubir, act for the principal defendant and the 17th defendant. The case is due to come…

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Harcus Parker listed as a “firm to watch” in the Legal 500

The latest Legal 500 has listed Harcus Parker as a “firm to watch” in relation to reputation management claims. This follows the launch of our technology, media and communications department in February 2021, which has recently received instructions from clients ranging from a high profile member of one of the…

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Harcus Parker takes on competition litigation practice

We are delighted to announce that Tom Ross and Jeremy Robinson, formerly partners at a leading international firm, have joined the firm as partners.  They will be joint heads of a new competition litigation practice.  Tom is a heavyweight commercial litigation partner with particular experience in handling disputes in the banking…

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Ryan Dunleavy joins as head of technology, media and communications litigation

Harcus Parker is pleased to announce that Ryan Dunleavy has joined the firm as a partner. He will lead the firm’s technology, media and communications litigation practice. His hire is part of Harcus Parker’s ongoing expansion as a specialist litigation firm that deals with complex, high value matters, particularly multi-party…

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Which? podcast: Damon Parker discusses Mortgage Prisoner litigation

Click here to listen, or visit the Which? website On 3 September 2020 Damon Parker was invited by Which? to discuss the Mortgage Prisoners litigation. Harcus Parker is acting on behalf of several thousand mortgage prisoners in claims against their lenders to recover overcharged interest rates in circumstances where they…

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Sophie Clarke writes about the importance of equal pay for supermarket workers who are asked to go above and beyond during the Covid-19 outbreak

Sophie Clarke was published today in The Grocer, a magazine leading coverage of the supermarket and consumables sector. Sophie writes that many leading supermarkets have promised to pay their in-store workers more to reflect the additional responsibilities they have assumed and risks they are taking to serve customers amidst the…

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Olivier Altmeyer and Edward Argles start training at Harcus Parker

Olivier Altmeyer and Edward Argles have started their training contracts with the firm as our first trainees.  They are due to qualify in September 2021. Olivier and Edward were both paralegals in the litigation team at Harcus Sinclair LLP and moved to Harcus Parker when it was founded in 2019. …

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Harcus Parker welcomes new partner Adam Zoubir

Harcus Parker is pleased to announce that Adam Zoubir has joined the firm as a partner. Adam has a broad commercial litigation practice, with a particular emphasis on high value commercial fraud, complex contractual disputes, insolvency and banking and finance matters.  Adam has been selected by Who’s Who Legal: Litigation…

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Mortgage Prisoners in the news

On Thursday 23 January 2020, The Independent wrote about the experience and problems faced by homeowners who have been trapped paying high rates of interest on their mortgage for more than a decade, and who are now fighting back against the lenders by joining the Mortgage Prisoner Litigation with Harcus…

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Festive fundraising

Over December the Harcus Parker team took part in several festive fundraising initiatives. Some members of the team took part in a running challenge in support of Mind charity.  Run Up To Christmas aims to get people active in December and encourage them to talk about mental health, reminding people…

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Damon Parker on the Victoria Derbyshire show

On Wednesday 18th December Damon Parker appeared on the Victoria Derbyshire show on BBC 2 to speak about the mortgage prisoner issue. You can read more about the Victoria Derbyshire show and watch Damon’s interview on the BBC website. Find out more about the Mortgage Prisoner case at www.mortgageprisoners.com or call…

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Quindell claim in the news

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…

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Equal Pay Claim in the news

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…

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Edward Parkes to speak at Banking Litigation and Regulation Forum

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:

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Launch of litigation firm Harcus Parker

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…

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Quindell Shareholder Action

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…

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Harcus Parker solicitors participate in First 100 Years project

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…

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Damon Parker to speak at the Trusts and Estates Forum

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…

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Court of Appeal handed down a judgment in the Asda Equal Pay case

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…

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