Litigation PR Experience
Group Action
Law firm Edwin Coe LLP, acting for a 500 strong consumer group bringing a multi-million pound class action lawsuit against timeshare excha...
Banking
Bell Yard advised the beneficial owners of two companies suing a Swiss bank at the High Court in London for breach of duty over the sale, at...
Hedge Funds
Bell Yard has worked with a number of hedge fund managers involved in disputes, with a brief to minimize their resonance in the public arena...
Fraud
Bell Yard has been hired by organisations finding themselves subject to sizeable fraud at the hands of employees. We work with the company,...
Divorce
Divorces of the super-rich can be super-costly in reputation terms too. Telephone number payouts, an aggrieved spouse or cases that push the...
Charities
Bell Yard assisted an international children’s charity when it decided to take action in London against a former UK Trustee. The claim, w...
Bonus Dispute
Bell Yard supported a group of former Dresdner Kleinwort bankers during their high profile and protracted legal dispute with Commerzbank ove...
Carole Caplin
Bell Yard was instructed by the health and fitness coach, Carole Caplin, on the occasion of her settlement with the Daily Mail over a seriou...
IP Disputes
Bell Yard was hired by a European retailer to expose its copyright dispute with a UK online fashion retailer intent on expanding into the Eu...
Corby Families
Bell Yard supported the Corby families and their lawyer, Des Collins, with the announcement of the conclusion of their long-running legal ba...
Fraud
Bell Yard represented independent trader Rajesh Gill in his successful fraudulent misrepresentation claim against his former broker, MF Glob...
Credit Crunch
When the London branch of a foreign bank found itself in dispute with a high-profile individual trader client counterclaiming negligence and...
Aluminium Smelter
Bell Yard advised Ansol, an international aluminium trading company, in its various high-octane disputes against TadAZ (now known as Talco)...
Patents
Bell Yard advised the directors of Neuftec Energy Limited in their dispute with Oxonica Energy Limited over patents and substantial royalty...
Unfair Dismissal
Bell Yard acted for Malcolm Perry, an Australian, in his Race Discrimination and Unfair Dismissal claim against Dresdner Kleinwort. Incidenc...
Sex Discrimination
Madarassy – v – Nomura International plc* This case has provided a useful and keenly sought interpretation of the burden of proo...
Employment Dispute
Steven Horkulak, a former senior manager at the interdealer broker, Cantor Fitzgerald, successfully sued the firm in the High Court in a cas...
Lehman Brothers
Kerim Derhali, a star in the fixed income world, brought a breach of contract and constructive dismissal claim by one of the stars of the fi...
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson* & MJJ Productions* – v – Granada Media Group Limited. Instructed the morning after Martin Bashir’s...
City Poaching
Cantor Fitzgerald – v – ICAP* & Others was a London High Court trial of a claim that Cantor employees were induced to breac...
Libel Action
Elite Model Management* & Others – v – BBC & Others. This libel action was brought by Bell Yard’s client against BBC d...
