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No recovery for VAT on takeover deal fees

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 29 2013

The UK Court of Appeal has held in the case of BAA plc that VAT on a holding company's deal fees for acquiring target company shares is not

British Airways - High Court dismisses novel class action claim

  • White & Case LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 12 2009

In its recent judgment in Emerald Supplies Limited & Anr. v British Airways Plc the High Court has struck out an attempt by US claimant law-firm, Hausfeld & Co LLP, to bring what was, in effect, a US-style class action claim before the English courts

Barclay v British Airways plc

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 2 2009

Ms Barclay appealed against the dismissal of her claim by Oxford County Court

British Airways fights off a “class action”

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 27 2009

The Chancellor of the UK ’s High Court dismissed a claim brought against British Airways ("BA ") on behalf of a broad group of air-freight customers

Earl of Malmesbury v Strutt & Parker 2007 EWCH 999 (QB)

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 16 2007

A cautionary tale for surveyors following the High Court’s decision that Strutt & Parker was negligent in valuing an airport car park lease for the Earl of Malmesbury to the tune of £18,000,000

CAT publishes summary of BAA's appeal against Competition Commission's final market investigation report

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 3 2009

On 22 May 2009, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) published a summary of the application, under section 179 of the Enterprise Act 2002, by BAA to challenge the legality of certain findings of the Competition Commission in its final report on the BAA airports market investigation

English High Court strikes out "class action" against British Airways

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 13 2009

On April 8, 2009, the Chancellor of the High Court (who is the head of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales) granted an application by British Airways ("BA") to strike out the representative element of a claim for damages arising from its alleged participation in an air cargo cartel

The GMF defence: selecting the pool

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 7 2008

In a case involving part-time cabin crew at British Airways, the Court of Appeal has delivered some important guidance on a key aspect of the genuine material factor (GMF) defence

OFT announces criminal charges in airline fuel surcharges cartel case

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 31 2008

Four men have been charged with cartel offences under the Enterprise Act in connection with the OFT's criminal investigation into price-fixing of fuel surcharges for long haul passenger flights

Whether claimant demonstrated that correct choice of law was English law

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 30 2010

In the case of FR Lurssen Werft GmBh & Co V Halle 2010 All ER (D) 159 (Apr), the claimant was a German shipbuilding company

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