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Attys Fight For Slice Of Flight Delay Claims At Top UK Court
Law360, London (May 20, 2021, 5:43 PM BST) Claims for Ryanair flight delays handled by solicitors on behalf of passengers are litigation services entitling lawyers to claim a cut of any money secured from the airline for their fees, a law firm argued at the U.K. Supreme Court on Thursday.
A law firm is appealing against a High Court decision in favor of Ryanair that airlines could settle claims for flight delays directly with passengers and were not obliged to pay the settlement to lawyers who filed the claims. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) Bott & Co. Solicitors is fighting lower court rulings that airlines could settle such matters directly with.
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Activist Urges Top Court To Allow Google Mass Privacy Suit
Law360, London (April 29, 2021, 4:01 PM BST) The former head of a consumer rights group told the U.K. Supreme Court on Thursday that allowing his multibillion-pound privacy suit accusing Google of unlawfully tracking iPhone users would solve a fundamental problem of access to justice in England.
Hugh Tomlinson QC said that a 2019 Court of Appeal decision that allowed his client, Richard Lloyd, former executive director of Which?, to serve his claim against Google LLC on behalf of 4.4 million U.K. residents should be upheld.
The ruling creates a legal mechanism and benefits millions of people who would otherwise not have any remedy for data breaches, Tomlinson told the.
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Google Fights Phone Data Consumer Action At Top UK Court
Law360, London (April 28, 2021, 3:37 PM BST) Google urged the U.K. Supreme Court on Wednesday to reject a multibillion-pound privacy suit accusing the company of tracking iPhone users, arguing that the proposed claimants did not suffer from a sufficiently similar level of harm to form a representative class.
Antony White QC, counsel for Google LLC, told the court that consumer rights activist Richard Lloyd should be refused permission to serve his proposed claim, brought on behalf of approximately 4.4 million U.K. residents, against the technology giant in the U.S.
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LONDON The U.K. Supreme Court on Friday allowed a group of 42,500 Nigerian farmers and fishermen to sue Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) in English courts after years of oil spills in the Niger Delta contaminated land and groundwater. Senior judges said there was an arguable case that U.K.-domiciled Shell, one of the world s biggest energy companies, is responsible, in the latest test of whether multinationals can be held to account for the acts of overseas subsidiaries. Represented by law firm Leigh Day, the group of Nigerians have argued that the parent company Shell owed them a duty of care because it either had significant control of, and was responsible for, its subsidiary SPDC. Shell countered that the court had no jurisdiction to try the claims.