United Kingdom: Court Procedure

In two separate decisions handed down on the same day, the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) imposed a licensing bar on certain employees of the defendants...

The Commercial Court has ruled that legal advice privilege extends beyond communications between clients and lawyers to include internal client communications and documents created for the purpose of seeking legal advice.

A recent English court judgment reveals how poorly drafted dispute resolution clauses can generate costly satellite litigation. The case examines whether parties intended arbitration to be compulsory and whether mediation was a mandatory precondition, highlighting the perils of imprecise contract drafting and the importance of clear escalation procedures.

If the decision is maintained, or no response is received within the specified timeframe, you can then submit an application for permission to apply for judicial review.

You can master complex constitutional doctrine or navigate intricate tax regulations, then find yourself scrambling to meet a discovery deadline or watching a strong case crumble because you missed the window to respond to a complaint.

A recent decision of the Düsseldorf Local Division of the UPC hammers home its aim of achieving efficient and front-loaded procedure in Europe. The case reaffirms that...

The High Court was faced with a peculiar set of facts in which the biological father, who is also one of the applicants, was known but the biological mother was not.

Yesterday, the Court of Appeal handed down its highly anticipated judgment in the case of Higgs v Farmor's School.

On 11 February 2025, in a further, and perhaps final, twist to the ongoing legal battle between UniCredit Bank GmbH ("UniCredit") and RusChemAlliance LLC ("RCA")...