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International Women’s Day 2023 #EmbraceEquity
March 08 2023
International Women’s Day has inspired us to actively reach out to school aged young women to encourage them to think about becoming a barrister at the Commercial Bar. Michelle Menashy and Daniele Thripp are visiting Coloma Girls’ School today to speak to...
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Court of Appeal determines novel issue of costs of jurisdictional challenge
March 29 2023
On 28 March 2023, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in Gorbachev v Guriev [2023] EWCA Civ 327. The Gorbachev litigation is a long-running dispute between two Russian businessmen for control of a $6 billion chemicals empire.
It essentially turns on...
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Second preliminary issues trial in the SKAT litigation
March 28 2023
On 24 March 2023, the Commercial Court handed down judgment following the second preliminary issues trial in the SKAT litigation.
At the hand-down hearing, Andrew Baker J observed that SKAT had won “handsomely and by a clear margin” on the issues...
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Silks Day 2023
March 27 2023
Congratulations to Henry Forbes Smith KC and Marcos Dracos KC following today's Silk ceremony at Westminster Hall...
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Litigant represented pro bono establishes that FOS acted irrationally in refusing to consider new evidence
March 07 2023
In a significant judgment recently handed down by the Administrative Court, the Court has concluded that the FOS acted irrationally in refusing to consider new evidence put before it by a litigant in person...
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Article on the appropriation of financial collateral under English law security financial collateral arrangements
March 03 2023
Kenneth MacLean KC has written an article on the exercise of the remedy of appropriation over financial collateral as a means of security enforcement.
The remedy was introduced into English law by...
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Court of Appeal upholds Lugano Jurisdiction judgment
March 01 2023
In its decision in Kwok v UBS handed down today ([2023] EWCA Civ 222), the Court of Appeal (Lord Burnett of Maldon LCJ, Sir Geoffrey Vos MR and Carr LJ)
unanimously dismissed UBS’s appeal against Cockerill J’s judgment holding that UBS...
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Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal dismisses $3bn freezing order appeal
March 01 2023
The Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal has upheld the discharge of three freezing orders relating to assets with a gross value of over US$3 billion in the long-running Emmerson—Renova litigation.
In dismissing three related appeals brought by Emmerson...
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