Practice area
Business-to-business dealings: commercial contracts and their interpretation, sale of goods and supply of services, warranties and indemnities, agency, distribution and franchising, guarantees, and commercial arbitration disputes. Distinct from Company Law: a case belongs here when it concerns bargains between businesses, not the governance, membership or insolvency of a company.
The appellant, Paradise Island Lighthouse and Beach Club Company Limited, was incorporated on 4 June 2018 by Mr Toby Smith, a Bahamian citizen, as the vehicle to receive a proposed 21-year Crown lease of five acres of land on…
QuidPay Finance Limited, a payments business, held e-money accounts with Settlego Solutions Limited trading as OpenPayd. OpenPayd suspended QuidPay's account and the flow of funds through the linked vIBANs, and required the…
The claimant contractor, Westgreen Construction Limited, was engaged by the defendant employer, Mrs Irina Kiryukhina, under a JCT Standard Building Contract without Quantities, 2016 edition, with bespoke amendments, executed on…
Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA ("UBP"), a Swiss private bank and asset manager, applied for pre-action disclosure under CPR 31.16 and section 33(2) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 against L Catterton Europe SAS ("LCE"), a French…
Car-Wizard Limited, a small vehicle repair business, sued Vixen Surface Treatments Limited, a supplier of commercial lathes, in the Circuit Commercial Court in Bristol. The claim was issued in December 2023 and tried by HHJ Paul…
The dispute concerns the video game Six Days in Fallujah, a self-described "documentary military shooter" which Victura, Inc has spent some $52m over eight years developing and which has been on sale in "early access" over the…
Mackie Motors (Brechin) Limited ("MMBL") was a franchised distributor of Renault, Nissan and Dacia cars in the north east of Scotland, with dealership agreements terminable on not less than 24 months' notice and separate finance…
The owner, Pacific Basin Supramax Limited, chartered the motor vessel 'Grande Island' to the charterer, Olam International Limited, under a time trip charterparty contained in and evidenced by a recapitulation email dated 26…
The claimant, Alliance Petrochemical Investment (Singapore) Pte Ltd ("API"), is a Singapore company and shareholder in Mehr Petrochemical Company ("MHPC"), an Iranian producer of high-density polyethylene, whose product API was…
Alexander Luxury (Yorkshire) Limited owned a property at 2 Southfield, Hessle, and engaged Developstate Limited to redevelop it and manage the works. No written contract was entered into; the parties proceeded on an "elemental…
The claimants, Mr Evans, Mr Walters and Mr Wood, were members of JNP Northern LLP ("JNP North"), a civil engineering practice operating from Brighouse and Sheffield, which collaborated with JNP Engineers LLP ("JNP South"), based…
The claimant, Balbinder Singh Battu, invested in a residential property development in Southampton. He had first lent money to Canal Walk Developments Ltd ("CWD"), which owned the site, advancing some £597,000 in 12 tranches…
The claimants, Roadget Business Pte Ltd (the Singapore parent of the SHEIN group) and Shein Distribution UK Ltd, sued Whaleco UK Limited, which operates the Temu online marketplace in the UK, for copyright infringement under the…
The claimant, Xenfin Fund 1 Trading Limited (in liquidation), is a Guernsey non-cellular company incorporated on 9 March 2017 as the special purpose vehicle through which the Xenfin Securities Debt Fund 1 Cell of GFG Funds PCC…
Ecolog International FZE, a company established in the United Arab Emirates, challenged the award by the Ministry of Defence of a contract for soft facilities management services at British bases in Cyprus. The contract was…
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust owns Queen Mary's Hospital, East Heath Road, a prime Hampstead site with substantial redevelopment potential which has not been used as a hospital since about 2008. By a lease dated 1…
Sucden Financial Limited brought proceedings in the Commercial Court against TMT Metals AG, Mr Prateek Gupta and Mine Craft Limited, arising from events some four years earlier and involving allegations of dishonesty. The claim…
Aerotron Limited applied to resist the recognition and enforcement in England of two Maltese judgments obtained by Hermes Aviation Limited. Hermes had served an Article 53 certificate, demanded payment and threatened a winding up…
By an underlease dated 9 December 2015 the defendant landlord let warehouse premises in Ellesmere Port to the claimant tenant for a term expiring on 19 May 2025. The tenant covenanted to keep the property in good repair and to…
The claimants are creditors under two arbitration awards made in London-seated arbitrations. The first claimant, the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan ("SOCAR"), is the direct or indirect parent of the other…