Practice area
The conduct of civil litigation itself: costs, case management, jurisdiction and service, limitation, disclosure, procedural appeals, and enforcement of judgments.
The appeal arose out of 14 personal injury claims in which the claimants had succeeded and become entitled to costs. GSD Law Limited was on the record for the claimants in nine of those cases and acted as agents for Sovereign…
The OCEAN VICTORY, a Capesize bulk carrier built in China in 2005, was owned by Ocean Victory Maritime Inc ("OVM") and demise chartered to Ocean Line Holdings Ltd ("OLH"), a related company, on the Barecon 89 form by a…
The claimants, Affinity Financial Awareness Limited and Affinity Connect Limited, are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Farleigh Group Ltd, which offers two services to public sector employees: pre-retirement educational seminars…
Ready Rentals Limited, now in liquidation, brought proceedings in 2010 against Mr Kaamran Ahmed and Mr Aref Zakari concerning a property at 4-6 Victoria Terrace, Leamington Spa. On 28 March 2011 Judge Cooke, sitting as a Judge of…
The claimant, Burnden Holdings (UK) Limited, now in liquidation, was a holding company whose subsidiaries carried on a conservatory supply and construction business and, through Vital Energi Utilities Limited, a combined heat and…
Optaglio Limited, founded by Mr Philip Hudson in about 2000, manufactures optical technology including holographic security foils and labels, and by 2006 had a turnover of some £15 million and a Czech subsidiary, Optaglio s.r.o…
The claimants — the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, the Musicians' Union and UK Music 2009 Limited — sought judicial review of the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills's decision to…
Mr Joseph Garnham, a litigant in person, had been a party to a probate claim following the death of Mr Arthur Wilkins, which was compromised by a consent order dated 28 October 2003 imposing significant obligations on Mr Wilkins'…
The claimant, S.E.T. Select Energy GmbH, a German company, supplied bunkers to vessels on the River Danube for the defendant, F&M Bunkering Limited, a Cyprus company, and claimed $1.2m together with interest for the price of…
Vivergo Fuels Limited, a joint venture of British Petroleum, British Sugar and Du Pont, was building a bioethanol plant at Saltend, Hull, said to be the largest such facility in the United Kingdom. Aker Process Limited acted as…
The claimant, British Malleable Iron Company Ltd, owns Vernon Road, Halesowen, a private road in an old industrial area with residential housing nearby, which forms the only vehicular access to an industrial estate known as Acorn…
The parties were the unmarried parents of a 17-year-old boy referred to as James. A consent order made on 7 February 2005 under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 required the father to pay a lump sum of £40,000, index-linked…
Both parties are Spanish companies. Imagina acquires and manages broadcasting rights in audiovisual works and sub-licenses them; TVV is the publicly-owned broadcaster for the Region of Valencia. In April 2007 Imagina acquired…
BMW Financial Services (GB) Limited, successor to Land Rover Financial Services, hired a Land Rover Discovery to Mr Damon Hart under a hire purchase contract signed by both parties on 1 March 1999. The total price was just over…
Darren Bent's claim against Highways and Utilities Construction and its insurer Allianz Insurance concerned the recovery of credit hire charges, in particular the Basic Hire Rate recoverable by him. Before trial he had received…
Mrs H Paneser appealed to the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) against a surcharge imposed by the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs for the late payment of income tax for the tax year ending 5 April 2009. Her…
Sunwing Vacations Inc and Vacances Sunwing Inc applied against E-Clear (UK) PLC, a company in voluntary liquidation, and its liquidators, Mr Cohen and Mr Nygate. The applicants sought an order that the company, through its…
Corporate Synergy International Limited, then trading in wholesale mobile phones, claimed repayment of input tax of £1,671,801.25 for VAT period 01/06 and £1,859,480.00 for period 02/06. By two decision letters dated 12 December…
The eight Digicel claimants alleged that they had been wrongfully obstructed by the incumbent monopoly telecommunications operators, the Cable & Wireless defendants, in their attempts to establish mobile networks in seven West…
Grattan plc appealed to the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) against decisions of HMRC. By a decision released on 12 January 2011, [2011] UKFTT 31 (TC), the tribunal decided to refer to the Court of Justice of the European Union…