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LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - A 14 billion pound ($18.5 billion) class action against Mastercard for allegedly overcharging more than 46 million people in Britain over a 15-year period was on Friday shown the green light by the UK Supreme Court.
The judgment, that upholds last year’s Court of Appeal decision, sets the scene for Britain’s first mass consumer claim brought under a new legal regime and offers guidance for a string of other class actions that have been stalled in its wake. (Reporting by Kirstin Ridley; Editing by Mark Potter)
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2021 ICC Arbitration Rules Come Into Force Friday, January 8, 2021
ICC”) launched the Revised Rules of Arbitration (“
2021 ICC Rules”), on 1 December 2020.
1 The 2021 ICC Rules enter into force on January 1, 2021. The ICC Arbitration Rules 2017 (“
2017 ICC Rules”) will continue to apply to cases registered prior to January 1, 2021.
2 The amendments in the 2021 ICC Rules are a step towards greater efficiency, flexibility and transparency in ICC arbitrations.
3
Joinder of Parties and Consolidation of Proceedings;
Disclosure of Third-Party Funding;
Provisions for Investment Treaty Arbitrations;
Remote Hearings;
Governing Law and Settlement of Disputes
We are glad to have comments and inputs from leading arbitrators, practitioners and ICC members around the world on the implications of the 2021 ICC Rules.
Hausfeld hires Trowers & Hamlins arbitration head to boost London disputes team
07 January 2021
Hausfeld hires Trowers & Hamlins arbitration head to boost London disputes team
Investment in US firm s London office continues with arrival of Ned Beale and an of counsel Ned Beale, head of Towers & Hamlins’ international arbitration team, has joined specialist litigation firm, Hausfeld, in London. Beale joins with of counsel Olena Gulyanytska and brings with him international disputes experience spanning Russia, Ukraine, the Middle East and Africa. His track record includes acting in high-value, London-centred Commercial Court claims embracing civil fraud work, as well as aviation, TMT and financial services. Beale acted for UK legislators intervening in a 2020 UK Supreme Court case, Marex Financial, which is now an authority on the rule against reflective loss in damages and is acting for the same clients in the forthcoming Times Travel Supreme Court case which is consideri
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On 26 August 2020, the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) handed down its
judgment on the combined appeals in the Unwired Planet v Huawei and
Conversant v Huawei & ZTE cases (Unwired and Conversant
respectively). We ve looked at the judgement previously, first
with a short summary, followed up by a longer review, and then in an article focusing on the IP perspective.
Now Pat Treacy and Matthew Hunt have written for the The Licensing Journal, and
their piece (published in the October 2020 issue) focuses more on
the consequences for SEP holders. Read the full PDF here.
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