LG Electronics has obtained a major victory in a competition damages case about cathode ray tubes (CRT). The multi-billion claim was brought before the Dutch civil courts by a Turkish television manufacturer in 2014.

The claimant initiated parallel proceedings against the same parties in Turkey, resulting in a final judgment in which was held that the claim was inadmissible against the defendant CRT manufacturers. LG Electronics and its co-defendants successfully argued that the Dutch court should recognise that final Turkish judgment. Accordingly, the Oost-Brabant District Court declared the claims against LG Electronics, Samsung SDI and Technicolor inadmissible.

The judgment has been published here (in Dutch only) and is a major victory for LGE, represented by the Houthoff team formed by Rick Cornelissen, Paul Sluijter, Albert Knigge, Lumine van Uden and Eline Groen (and previously other colleagues). The Houthoff team worked together with teams from Stek (representing Samsung SDI), NautaDutilh (representing Technicolor) and, at an earlier stage, De Brauw (representing Philips, against which the claims were withdrawn).