Practice area
The conduct of civil litigation itself: costs, case management, jurisdiction and service, limitation, disclosure, procedural appeals, and enforcement of judgments.
Uniper UK Limited, the owner of the former coal-fired power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, brought proceedings to restrain trespass and nuisance on the site by two broad groups of trespassers: named defendants and other persons…
The applicant, Parvaiz Akhtar, was assessed to VAT by the Commissioners for His Majesty's Revenue and Customs for the periods 12/19 to 03/23 in the sum of £29,199.19. The assessments were best judgement assessments issued under s…
The claimant, Maidstone Borough Council, applied to commit the defendant, Fred King, for contempt of court arising from breaches of two injunctions concerning land known as Warren Lands at Sandway, Maidstone, whose lawful use is…
The claimant, Maersk A/S, a Danish shipping line, was the disponent owner of the container vessel Maersk Seoul, which it held under a chain of time charters descending from the registered owners. In July 2015 the defendant, Sree…
The claimant, Perseus Ventures Limited, is a British Virgin Islands company owned and directed by Martin Walsh, who conducted the litigation on its behalf having been granted rights of audience by Freedman J in July 2024. The…
The claimants are William Donald Lindsay and the estate of the late Euan McIntyre Lindsay, members of a family of Scottish dairy farmers who owned a farm in Scotland and a farm in Cumbria. After the family ran into financial…
Glint Pay Ltd (GPL) and its subsidiaries Glint Pay Services Ltd and Glint Pay UK Ltd operate a gold-backed debit card app. In January 2019 GPL borrowed £1.65 million from Brahma Finance (BVI) Ltd, secured by a debenture granting…
Dogwoof Ltd is a London documentary film company whose shareholders are Mr Paul Andrew Whittaker (approximately 25%), Bertha UK Ltd (approximately 40%), Ms Anna Godas and Mr Oliver Harbottle, their relations governed by a…
Alfie, a boy aged between 18 and 21 months at the material time and now aged three, sustained a range of injuries — including a skull fracture, a fractured right radius and four rib fractures — while living with his mother and…
BlackBerry Limited, a software company, contracted with Optiemus Infracom Limited, an Indian public listed handset supplier, under an agreement dated 1 February 2017 by which BlackBerry supplied software and services for mobile…
FGF applied for naturalisation as a British citizen in January 2020. The Home Secretary refused his application in February 2022 on good character grounds under section 6(1) of the British Nationality Act 1981, certifying that…
The appellant, DL, applied to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions for Personal Independence Payment. The application was refused, and she appealed to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber). The First-tier…
Four related actions in the Patents Court concerned patents belonging to Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (part of the Takeda group) protecting vedolizumab, marketed as Entyvio®, for moderately to severely active ulcerative…
The claimant, The Wine Enterprise Investment Scheme Limited ("TWEISL"), in liquidation and acting by its joint liquidators, sued its former auditors, Crowe U.K. LLP (formerly Clark Whitehill LLP), alleging that competent auditing…
Manaquel Company Ltd is the registered freehold owner of Dorchester Court in Herne Hill, an Art Deco estate of eight blocks containing 96 flats. Following inspections between March and June 2021, the London Borough of Lambeth, as…
Premium Contractor Solution LLC, a company established in Ohio in the United States, brought proceedings in the King's Bench Division against Mrs Ying Kang, a Chinese national domiciled in China who owns a property in…
The applicant, Janet D'Sa, was the defendant to possession proceedings brought against her by Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council in the Wandsworth County Court. Following an earlier hearing on 21 July 2025 which gave…
The London Borough of Harrow brought public law proceedings in the Family Court concerning child A. The proceedings, begun in the Family Court, were transferred by order of MacDonald J to be heard by a High Court Judge sitting in…
KHX, born in June 1974, was received into the care of the Isle of Wight Council in 1976 and, from March 1984 when he was nine, was placed at Richmond Row Children's Home at Brading, a home owned and managed by the Council, where…
The parties married in April 2013 and divorce proceedings between Meerna Ali Ghuloom Faraj ("the wife") and Sohail Sultan Ahmad ("the husband") began in October 2020. The husband is the majority shareholder, a director and chief…