Mortgage broker John Bagguley, a founder of the Provincial Finance Company, is reportedly set to file a libel lawsuit against a former client after he was accused of mis-selling Payment Protection Insurance (PPI). Banks and other lenders have been swamped with PPI mis-selling claims in the last year, as soon as the UK courts ruled …
An engineering firm based in the Lancashire town of Burnley has been prosecuted and fined by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a contractor fell from the roof of its factory. Lupton & Place was fined £6,000 over the incident, in which a 67-year-old contractor fell through a roof panel. He was lucky enough …
The Building Design Partnership (BDP) is reportedly facing a professional negligence lawsuit over ventilation problems at the Westminster Academy building in Westbourne Green in London. The Education Secretary Michael Gove is said to have joined the Academy in filing the lawsuit against BDP, which was the lead consultant on the £23 million school project. According …
The controversial US singer Lady Gaga has reportedly been named in a copyright infringement lawsuit over her hit single, ‘Judas’. The lawsuit, which was filed by aspiring singer Rebecca Francescatti in a federal court in the US earlier this month (August 2011), alleges that Lady Gaga’s single ‘Judas’ was lifted from one of her own …
A construction firm with offices throughout the UK has reportedly filed a lawsuit against its own lawyers over allegations of negligence in the drafting of contracts. In the lawsuit filed at the High Court, Shepherd Construction accuses law firm Pinsent Masons of negligence in drafting contracts for the company. This complaint stems from a court …
The music streaming service Spotify is reportedly being sued in the US for infringing on patents owned by another company, despite launching in the States just a couple of weeks ago. Spotify, a service which allows music fans to listen to their favourite tracks online, has been widely praised for preventing copyright infringement by discouraging …
The US-based social networking company Facebook Inc. has filed a lawsuit against a total of 25 domain name holders whom it believes are infringing on its trademark. Amongst the 25 listed defendants are the owners of sites such as: • ffacebook.com • facebobk.com • facemook.com • facefook.com • facemook.com Facebook is claiming that these domain …
The film studio Dreamworks Animation has triumphed in a lawsuit in which a writer alleged that studio bosses had stolen his ideas for the hit 2008 film Kung Fu Panda. Writer Terrence Dunn filed his lawsuit in 2010, two years after the animated film was released. He says that he pitched the idea for a …
The popular group-buying websites Groupon and LivingSocial are reportedly facing a lawsuit from a small firm in the US which alleges that they infringe on its patents. The lawsuit has been filed by SellerBid Inc.in the Virginia Eastern District Court, in which it is alleged that Groupon, LivingSocial, OpenTable and Buywithme all infringe on two …