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New Balance v Liverpool [2019] EWHC 2837 (Comm)

25/10/19

Judgment was given today in the case of New Balance v Liverpool [2019] EWHC 2837 (Comm), in which Theo Barclay was the first junior counsel for Liverpool. Liverpool won the case, stopping New Balance from blocking a future kit sponsorship deal with Nike worth hundreds of millions of pounds. The case turned on contractual construction points and the scope of an implied duty of good faith.

Click here to read the full judgment.

The matter has been widely reported in the press, for example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-50181334