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Digital assets and crypto security team win gold award for thought leadership
Posted: 25/06/2025
Penningtons Manches Cooper's digital assets and crypto security team have won the Corporate Thought Leadership – Crypto Gold Award at the annual Citywealth Brand Marketing & Reputation Awards. The team, led by partner Charlotte Hill, was celebrated for '…leading the conversation on crypto with clarity, rigour, and relevance', and praised......>>
High Court on appeal rejects novel 'retrieval duty' on a recipient bank
Posted: 03/04/2025
On 25 March 2025 the High Court handed down its judgment in the seminal case of Santander UK PLC v CCP Graduate School Ltd [2025] EWHC 667 (KB), which considered whether there is a tortious duty of retrieval on a recipient bank in relation to funds transferred as a result of fraud, when the victim of fraud is not a customer of that bank......>>
Group claims – which procedural route should I use?
Posted: 23/09/2024
Group litigation has become a key tool for claimants seeking cost-effective collective redress. However, managing large-scale disputes and navigating the complexities of the court rules on class actions requires specialist knowledge. Penningtons Manches Cooper’s group actions team is delighted to have been asked by LexisNexis to produce......>>
Banks have new duties to protect consumers – so why can’t consumers sue for breach?
Posted: 18/06/2024
Fairness to consumers, and the integrity of the financial markets, underpin the new duties being imposed on financial institutions in 2024. But is it fair that a consumer can only seek redress for breach from an ombudsman, and not the court? And why do consumers not have a private right of action for breach of these duties, when such a right......>>
Representations, reverse engineering, and Russian dolls: a case study in complexity in Loreley v Credit Suisse
Posted: 22/02/2024
Most businesses presume that their counterparts are honest. But can you claim for misrepresentation if that presumption proves wrong? In Loreley Financing (Jersey) No 30 Ltd v Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Ltd & Ors [2023] EWHC 2759 (Comm), the court confirmed that the answer, generally, is no. Rejecting the fraudulent......>>
Investor protection: a guide to spread betting
Posted: 02/02/2024
Placing a spread bet is when you bet on the movement of a financial market. You do not purchase the underlying security or asset that you are betting on, you are instead betting on the direction that you think the price of the security or asset will go. These bets can be placed in relation to a variety of different securities and assets including......>>
Investor protection: a quick guide to the Conduct of Business Sourcebook
Posted: 13/12/2023
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Handbook contains the Conduct of Business Sourcebook (COBS) which sets out rules for the way firms regulated by the FCA conduct their business. These guidelines include rules both for the conduct of business with retail and professional clients and for the disclosure of information......>>
Investor protection: a quick guide to PRIIPs
Posted: 05/12/2023
Packaged Retail and Insurance Based Investment Products (PRIIPs) is an EU regulation brought into force on 26 November 2015 which set out a requirement for the provision of Key Information Documents in relation to certain financial products. The intention of the regulation was to improve the information provided to retail customers......>>
Class actions in England and Wales: a client guide
Posted: 24/11/2023
Class actions are becoming increasingly popular in England and Wales, with this type of litigation ranging from those claims brought together by a few individuals to ‘opt-out’ collective or representative proceedings which may be brought on behalf of potentially millions of individuals. The infrastructure in England and Wales to manage such claims......>>
Philipp v Barclays Bank - Supreme Court judgment finds payment service providers are not liable to reimburse victims of 'APP' fraud
Posted: 12/07/2023
On Wednesday, 12 July 2023, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Fiona Philipp v Barclays Bank UK Plc. In what is a blow to consumers and a relief for banks, the Supreme Court has disagreed with the Court of Appeal’s decision and ruled in favour of Barclays, meaning victims of authorised push payment (APP) fraud cannot call......>>

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