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
Anna Hoffmann speaking at Legal ESG’s Conference “Greenwashing for Lawyers – Balancing Legal Risks and...
Tomorrow, Anna Hoffmann will be speaking at Legal ESG’s Conference “Greenwashing for Lawyers – Balancing Legal Risks and Opportunities amidst Green Misinformation”. Anna will be speaking on the “Wrap Up Session – What’s Next?” panel (with Stuart Woollard, Organizational Maturity Services LLP and Tamara Cizeika, Allen & Overy). The wrap-up panel session serves as a […]
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
Andrew Stevens speaks at IDRC for LSLC talk
Andrew Stevens spoke on a panel with Mr Justice Foxton and HHJ Pelling KC – the Judges in Charge of the Commercial Court and the London Circuit Commercial Court respectively – along with Sally-Ann Underhill, a partner at Reed Smith (London and Athens). The event took place on 19 July 2023 at the IDRC in […]
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
Simon Goldstone successful in s994 Companies Act (Unfair Prejudice) trial
This morning the Companies Court (ICC Judge Prentis) handed down judgment on a Petition concerning Mitt Wearables Ltd, a start-up company designing and manufacturing revolutionary prosthetic limbs. The Petition was brought by a co-founder who had been dismissed following what he said was a premeditated scheme to dilute his shareholding and misappropriate the Company’s assets. […]
19th July 2023
Judgment handed down in Topalsson v Rolls-Royce Motor Cars [2023] EWHC 1756 (TCC)
Yesterday, the Technology and Construction Court handed down an interesting judgment in Topalsson v Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. The dispute was in relation to the Service Agreement for the supply of Future Configurator Landscape between Topalsson (a software and services company specialising in digital data visualisation based in Germany) and Rolls-Royce (a subsidiary of BMW). Terry […]
13th July 2023
Alex Potts KC registered as a DIFC Part II Legal Practitioner
Alex Potts KC has been registered as a DIFC Part II Legal Practitioner. Alex now has rights to practice in the DIFC Courts. For full details see here.
11th July 2023
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