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ADVERTISEMENT Bacardi Beats £51M Claim From Rival Over Soured Deal Law360, London (May 19, 2021, 6:38 PM BST) -- Bacardi U.K. Ltd. is not automatically obligated to cover £51.5 million ($73 million) in payments a subsidiary allegedly owes the spirits giant behind Jack Daniels under a cost-sharing deal even though it agreed to guarantee the payments, a London judge ruled on Wednesday. Bacardi U.K. is toasting a victory in the High Court where a judge has ruled that it is not automatically obl...

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Law Firm Must Share Docs In £17M Brazil Deal Fight Law360, London (April 14, 2021, 5:47 PM BST) -- A judge ordered a now-shuttered law firm on Wednesday to disclose information about its former managing directors interactions with two property development companies that are suing their former lawyers for breach of fiduciary duty over a thwarted development in Brazil. Judge Mark Pelling rejected arguments at the High Court by counsel for Nabas International Lawye...

Christopher Gosden, director of the Institute of Archaeology (Oxford) Oxford professor Christopher Gosden has been awarded £1 million after his mother left much of her wealth to her partner in her will. Gosden, the director of the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford, sued after being disinherited in the will left by his late mother Jean Weddell, a pioneering former medic and World Health Organisation lecturer who died in 2013 aged 84. Gosden was angered to discover that despite his mother once ...

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