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Benjamin Blacklock
Awards
Apr 12, 2024
Apr 12, 2024
Eight BCLP Partners Ranked in 2024 Lawdragon 500 Global Plaintiff Lawyers
Insights
Nov 06, 2023
Nov 06, 2023
Can multiple claimants use the same claim form in group actions?
A recent decision in the Birmingham County Court has added to the body of case law growing around the test for listing multiple claimants on the same claim form. In Angel and others v Black Horse…
Insights
Oct 31, 2023
Oct 31, 2023
Disputes in Focus: Quick Q&A on group claims
There are various ways in the English High Court to bring a claim, including as a group or representative action. Historically they have been underused but that is changing. Businesses are becoming…
Insights
Sep 14, 2023
Sep 14, 2023
Raising the stakes in activist shareholder claims
The High Court has ordered that ClientEarth pay Shell’s costs in connection with all aspects of ClientEarth’s unsuccessful application for permission to continue a derivative claim against Shell and…
Insights
Sep 12, 2023
Sep 12, 2023
The High Court has made a Group Litigation Order (GLO) in the class action proceedings of Tongue & Ors v Bayer Public Ltd Company & Ors [2023] EWHC 1792 (KB). This appears to be only the second GLO…
Insights
Aug 30, 2023
Aug 30, 2023
In the High Court’s recent judgment in Município de Mariana & Ors v BHP Group (UK) Limited & Anor the Court found that England was “clearly the appropriate forum” to determine whether Vale SA, a…
Insights
Jul 12, 2023
Jul 12, 2023
Learning from the Trucks Cartel judgment: Mitigation
The Competition Appeal Tribunal’s judgment in Royal Mail and BT’s claim against DAF Trucks has provided welcome clarity on how the legal test for pass on should be applied. It provides helpful…
Insights
Mar 17, 2023
Mar 17, 2023
Financing losses and interest - simple pleasures or compounding the misery?
It has long been a mystery to economists, accountants and business people why lawyers have regard to simple interest in commercial cases, in circumstances where companies generally do not (and cannot)…
Insights
Mar 02, 2023
Mar 02, 2023
Trucks cartel decision: overcharge gets green light
In the first "trucks cartel" litigation to go to trial in the UK, the Competition Appeal Tribunal has ruled that a cartel of truck manufacturers led to a material overcharge on a UK market-wide basis.…
News
Feb 15, 2023
Feb 15, 2023
Landmark cartel damages judgment for BCLP clients Royal Mail and BT
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