Case studies

In November 2016, members of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense were travelling to the 2016 Copa Sudamericana Finals on LaMia Flight 2933. That flight tragically crashed, killing almost all on board, and seriously injuring those that survived.

Our group actions team is representing around 90 businesses in a major Commercial Court claim against NFU Mutual, challenging its refusal to pay Covid-19 business interruption claims — a case with potentially far-reaching implications for insurers.

Penningtons Manches Cooper has successfully defended a High Court challenge to a group claim, in a ruling that supports cost-effective collective redress and confirms that multiple claimants can use a single claim form where it is considered convenient.

We are currently acting for almost 100 clients to recover multi-million pound damages from their former London-based solicitors, Giambrone Law, for professional negligence, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of trust.

We have advised clients in relation to the recovery of substantial damages for money lost in another off-plan holiday home fraud.

We have been acting for 21 victims of a Ponzi fraud scheme in which a fraudulent mortgage broker arranged that two firms of solicitors acting for the victims pay the balances of the clients’ mortgage loans secured by the fraudulent broker into an account under the broker’s control.

We are acting for individuals who invested in a scheme set up by a company called Zen Gold ATM Limited. They were persuaded to invest in the alleged Ponzi scheme which was to acquire ATM vending machines from which to dispense 24-carat gold coins and bars within shopping centres.

We are representing a number of steelworkers who have been persuaded by financial or professional advisers to transfer out of their British Steel pension scheme into a self-invested pension plan.