Jan 23, 2023 Post Brexit: The return of anti-suit injunctions from the English court in cases involving EU member states By Ed Llewelyn-Evans Madeleine Brown Chloe Edworthy In Ebury Partners Belgium SA/NZ v Technical Touch BV and another [2022] EWHC 2927 (Comm), the English court granted an anti-suit...
Jan 12, 2023 Court of Appeal finds that those instructing lawyers in litigation will likely need to reveal their identities By Lois Horne Michael Freedman Madeleine Brown Loreley Financing (Jersey) No. 30 Limited v Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited & Ors [2022] EWCA Civ 1484 is a unanimous decision...
Dec 21, 2022 Embiricos v HMRC – a second bite of the procedural cherry By Luke Silverman Earlier this year, in Embiricos v HMRC [2022] EWCA Civ 3, the Court of Appeal held that HMRC could not issue a partial closure notice to...
Dec 14, 2022 Don’t be left in tiers – practical advice on using multi-tiered dispute resolution clauses By Richard Alam I recently attended a panel discussion at the Society of Construction Law Astra International Conference in Paris about the use of...
Dec 12, 2022 Market abuse in the bond market – FCA proposes prohibition orders for three traders By Dan Lavender Madeleine Brown The FCA is seeking to impose prohibition orders and fines on three traders for market abuse during their time working at Mizuho...
Nov 30, 2022 Putting the new gateways into practice: information orders against foreign non-parties By James Popperwell Nikolas Ireland Madeleine Brown In LMN v Bitlfyer Holdings Inc and others [2022] EWHC 2954 (Comm), the High Court has permitted service out of the jurisdiction using the...
Nov 29, 2022 Transparency, but not at any cost By Dominic Sedghi In a significant judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has struck down provisions of European Union law that give...
Nov 24, 2022 Expenses of management: what the judgment in Centrica means for the deductibility of deal fees By Lawrence Parkin The Court of Appeal's judgment in HMRC v Centrica Overseas Holdings Limited denies a corporation tax deduction for a range of sell-side...
Nov 18, 2022 Unpaid court costs orders could cost you By James Popperwell Ed Llewelyn-Evans Alex Douty The trial of an unfair prejudice petition (the Petition) has been vacated and the petition stayed for a year pending satisfaction of...
Nov 16, 2022 OFSI’s annual review of an unprecedented year By Neill Blundell Helen Harvey Chris Akka On 10 November 2022, the UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (“OFSI”) published its annual review. This has been a...
Nov 09, 2022 Non-party disclosure: Court of Appeal confirms expansive approach By James Popperwell Nikolas Ireland Madeleine Brown Earlier this year, we wrote about the case of Gorbachev v Guriev and others, which found that litigants can apply for disclosure by a...
Nov 08, 2022 When will developments in a foreign law affect your English law contract/financial instrument? By Christopher Charlton Ed Llewelyn-Evans Madeleine Brown In Banca Intesa Sanpaolo Spa and another v Comune di Venezia (2022) EWHC 2586 (Comm) (Venezia) the English High Court held that two...
Oct 24, 2022 Is the New Economic Crime Bill tough enough? MPs level criticism at its second reading By Neill Blundell Helen Harvey Mollie Biggadike The introduction of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (the Bill) on 22 September 2022 was met with support by many legal...
Oct 14, 2022 Lessons from a Grandmaster: what can chess teach us about witness credibility? By Jacob Ward Sheila Dines Matthew Pimley It is unusual for chess to make front page news. World champion Magnus Carlsen went into the recent Sinquefield Cup with a 53-game...
Aug 18, 2022 Court approves posthumous use of embryos By Elizabeth Doherty Imogen Courtney Jacob Ward In a landmark decision, the English High Court has granted a widower’s request to use the last embryo created with his late wife to try...
Aug 16, 2022 Cryptocurrencies meet class actions: investors take aim at cryptocurrency exchanges By Lorna Emson Luke Chinniah Sheila Dines The most recent in a flurry of proposed class action proceedings brought before the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal is a £9.9bn claim...