Practice area
The conduct of civil litigation itself: costs, case management, jurisdiction and service, limitation, disclosure, procedural appeals, and enforcement of judgments.
Vine House Property Management Ltd borrowed £1,177,500 from Bank of Scotland plc on 19 July 2002, secured by a legal charge over Vine House, 143 London Road, Kingston upon Thames. Further advances followed: £125,000 in 2003 and…
The parties, referred to as LE ("the wife") and EL ("the husband"), were engaged in financial remedy proceedings in the Family Court at Birmingham arising out of their marriage, the wife having applied for financial relief under…
Michael Wilson & Partners Limited ("MWP"), represented by Mr Wilson, and Mr John Forster Emmott have been engaged in protracted litigation arising out of an arbitration between them. Mr Emmott obtained an arbitral award in his…
The appellant, Mr Tareque Hossain, is a national of Bangladesh who entered the United Kingdom in February 2010 on a Tier 4 student visa valid until 30 April 2013. He applied for further leave to remain on 1 May 2013 and was…
LSC Finance Ltd is an unregulated lender providing short-term finance for the purchase and development of real property; Mr Shaun Morley is its managing director and Mr Adam Turner its finance director. The first appellant, Mr…
The claimants are seven poultry farming businesses whose flocks were affected by Avian Influenza during the 2021/22 and 2022/23 outbreaks. The defendant Secretary of State, acting through the Animal and Plant Health Agency, has…
The property at 159-167 Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3PY comprises several long leasehold flats. The appellant, Assethold Limited, purchased both the freehold and the headlease of the property from Millcastle Limited on 10…
The claimant, Rubikon Shipping Company DOO, a Serbian company, and the defendant, Jetfly Hub SRL, a Romanian company, entered into a contract dated 28 January 2020 ("the Frame Contract") for the sale of gasoline, an umbrella…
Mr William Hay, a tattoo artist working in Glasgow, brought a libel claim against Ms Nina Cresswell over publications she made in June and July 2020 alleging that he had sexually assaulted her on the night of 27 – 28 May 2010…
The claimant, Mr Khakimov, was employed by Nikko Asset Management Europe Limited, a fund management business, from 1 January 2013 until his dismissal on 13 January 2021, latterly as Product Management Director, UK; he had been…
Praetura Asset Finance Ltd brought a claim against S Line Rentals Ltd, Neil Vitale and Sundeep Gohil arising out of transactions entered into in 2019. A Mercedes S Class diesel saloon which had belonged to Mr Gohil was…
The claimant, referred to as LMN, is a company incorporated in England and Wales which operates a cryptocurrency exchange. Its case is that it does not hold customers' cryptocurrency on trust but holds it in its own name, owing a…
Phoenix Life Ltd ("PLL") and ReAssure Life Ltd ("RLL") are large English insurers in closed-fund run off, both authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority to carry on long term business and holding some 4 million policies…
C4C Investments Limited appealed against penalties of £162,587.31 assessed on 13 January 2020 under Schedule 24 Finance Act 2007 for inaccuracies in its VAT returns, assessed on the basis that the inaccuracies were deliberate…
Mr Andrew Nuttall purchased shares in Readybuy in August and September 2003 in connection with the flotation of that company's shares on AIM, and on 8 September 2003 gifted 328,000 of those shares to charity. In his…
The claimant, Alexander Reid, is a martial artist and television personality; the defendant, Katie Price, is a well-known TV personality, author and former glamour model. They became a couple in about 2009, married on 2 February…
On 30 June 2006 Mr Tony Ricky Gardner agreed to sell the shares in Gardner and Barnard Mining (UK) Limited ("GBUK"), whose wholly owned South African subsidiary was GB Mining and Exporation South Africa (Pty) Limited ("GBSA"), to…
The claimant, Praetura Asset Finance Limited, issued a claim form on 25 January 2019 in the Circuit Commercial Court in Manchester seeking to recover over £1.5 million said to be due from the defendant, Derek Thomas Hood, under…
Mr Hodgson and his former wife owned a bungalow in Northamptonshire built in around 2002 by PA Groves Ltd and covered by an NHBC Buildmark policy. In September 2004 he began an arbitration against Groves under the policy…
Abdel Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar brought judicial review proceedings challenging the decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions not to bring a prosecution for alleged cooperation and participation in their rendition to…