Judgment handed down in Ahmad v Ouajjou & Perez

On 10 October 2023, Mr. Justice Jacobs handed down judgment following a substantive amendment application in Ahmad v Ouajjou & Perez, a fraud claim concerning loans made to fund the supply of PPE during the Covid-19 pandemic.  The judgment is a useful illustration of the approach that the Court will deploy when a defendant’s amendment […]

17th November 2023

Judgment handed down in Providence Building Services Limited v Hexagon Housing Association Limited: Important...

In an ex tempore judgment handed down by Mr Adrian Williamson KC (sitting as a judge of the High Court) on 7 November 2023, the Technology and Construction Court provided important clarification as to the effect of certain of the termination provisions included in the widely-used JCT Design and Build Contract 2016. The decision will […]

16th November 2023

The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal refuses application for permission to appeal in Kattina Anglin v The Governor of the...

The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal has recently refused an application for permission to appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the case of Kattina Anglin v The Governor of the Cayman Islands and Colours Caribbean, CICA Civil Appeal No. 6 of 2022. The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal accepted the submissions […]

7th November 2023

Important TCC Judgment on limitation, accrual of cause of action, and more

Summary In a decision which will be of wide interest and general application, Eyre J has handed down a wide-ranging and important judgment in Lendlease Construction (Europe) Limited v AECOM Limited [2023] EWHC 2620 (TCC). Alexander Hickey KC (instructed by Shoosmiths LLP) acted for the Claimant, Lendlease. Lynne McCafferty KC and Matthew Thorne (instructed by […]

1st November 2023

Alex Potts KC represents Dubai Sotheby’s Real Estate in DIFC Court of First Instance

Alex Potts KC has recently been representing SIR Real Estate LLC, now trading as Dubai Sotheby’s Real Estate, in the DIFC Court of First Instance, on the instructions of Al Tamimi and Company. On 27 September 2023, Mr. Justice Robert French (former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia) delivered an important judgment in favour […]

25th October 2023

Ruth Bala successful in Nash v Volkswagen Financial Services (UK) Ltd [2023] EWHC 2326 (KB)

Freedman J has handed down judgment in Nash v Volkswagen Financial Services (UK) Ltd [2023] EWHC 2326 (KB). Ruth Bala successfully represented Volkswagen FS, instructed by Lester Aldridge LLP. The case concerned a newly purchased motor vehicle which had caught fire: the purchaser’s expert said that the most likely cause was an electrical defect, whereas […]

25th September 2023

DIFC Court of Appeal: Important New Jurisdiction Judgment

In September 2022 the DIFC Court held in Jones v Jones that it has an unfettered freestanding jurisdiction to grant injunctions, without any reference to jurisdictional gateways (see Laurence Page’s note). On 6 September 2023, a year later, the DIFC Court of Appeal has found that Jones v Jones was wrong. Injunctive relief can be […]

6th September 2023

Anti Suit Injunctions and Foreign IP claims: Topalsson judgment

On 17 August 2023, Waksman J handed down judgment in Topalsson v Rolls-Royce [2023] EWHC 2092 (TCC). Matthew Lavy KC and Gideon Shirazi acted for Topalsson; Alex Charlton KC and Iain Munro acted for Rolls-Royce. Topalsson is a German company which had developed cutting-edge automotive software. It had agreed to a project to implement and […]

23rd August 2023

Elliott Cook acts for FCA in unauthorised collective investment scheme case: ‘FCA v Forster & Ors’

On 28 July 2023, the High Court handed down judgment in The Financial Conduct Authority v Forster & Ors [2023] EWHC 1973 (Ch), a claim by the FCA relating to an unauthorised collective investment scheme. The unlawful scheme involved the sale to investors of 125-year leases in individual rooms within care homes owned by Qualia […]

7th August 2023

TCC hands down judgment in ‘ISG Retail Limited V FK Construction Limited [2023] EWHC 2012’

Yesterday, the TCC handed down judgment in the long running dispute regarding default payee notices ‘ISG Retail Limited V FK Construction Limited [2023] EWHC 2012’. It concerns default payee notices under s110B(4) of the Construction Act, and the restitution of sums paid under an adjudicator’s decision that is later found by the Court to have […]

3rd August 2023

Keeping things simple: complexity and time pressures in adjudication

The TCC yesterday handed down judgment in Home Group Limited v MPS Housing Limited [2023] EWHC 1926 (KB), enforcing an adjudication for over £6.5 million. Matthew Thorne (instructed by Devonshires Solicitors LLP) acted for the successful claimant. Background The claimant (Home Group) is a social housing provider and owns thousands of properties in England and Scotland. The underlying contract, […]

26th July 2023

Judgment handed down in an appeal which raised issues of wider importance for the QFC and Qatari law- Simon Hale

Simon Hale appeared on behalf of the defendant bank in an appeal against a first instance decision in the Civil and Commercial Court of the Qatar Financial Centre (the “QFC”), which raised issues of wider importance for the QFC and Qatari law. Background In 2014-2015, the Government of Qatar introduced a policy to provide better […]

25th July 2023

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