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.
NGHL and AFL (formerly AFL Insurance Brokers Limited) brought claims against Alec Finch and his son Bob Finch, former directors of AFL. NGHL claimed fraudulent misrepresentation and breach of warranty over its 2017 purchase of a…
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…
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…
Centrillion Point in Croydon is a former office building which Durkan Estates Limited converted into dwellings in the late 2000s and of which Wallace Estates Limited has been freeholder since 1 May 2014. On 4 January 2024 the…
The claimant, Trafigura PTE Limited, a Singapore-incorporated commodities trader, sold gasoil and gasoline to the defendant, Société Nationale de Raffinage (SONARA), an oil refining company 96% owned by the Republic of Cameroon…
The claimant, Andron Contract Services Limited, provides facilities management services such as cleaning and security to office buildings and shopping centres. From 19 October 2020 it provided those services at the Golden Square…
The Competition and Markets Authority brought Part 8 proceedings in the Chancery Division against Emma Matratzen GmbH and other defendants, a group whose business consists principally of selling its own brand of mattresses online…
Onecom Partners Limited, a leading UK provider of telecommunications and cloud-based services, supplied telecoms and cloud services to resellers known as Reseller Partners, who in turn sold to their own end customers. Yello Voice…
The claimant, Danion Limited, a sub-contractor, was engaged by the defendant, IPS Roofing Limited, to carry out specialist scaffolding-related works at a site in High Street, Southampton, under a JCT standard building…
The claimant, Grainful Holding Limited, obtained an order under section 66 of the Arbitration Act 1996 for the enforcement of an arbitration award against the defendant, Mr Igor Mineev, and in aid of that enforcement Henshaw J…
The appellant, Ikpaisong Effiong Ukpe, trading as Ikpaland Enterprises UK, is a sole trader running a grocery store at 15 High Street, Romford. In December 2022 he entered into a "Fixed Certainty Electricity Supply" contract with…
CAFI – Commodity & Freight Integrators DMCC bought 28,000 metric tonnes of Russian milling wheat from GTCS Trading DMCC under a contract dated 11 March 2022, reference RMW125-11032022-1, at US$465 per tonne C&FFO one Egyptian…
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…
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 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…
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…
The defendants own a retail building in Margate, Kent, forming part of a retail estate. By a lease dated 11 August 2006 they let the premises to Dreams plc for a term ending in 2031 at a market rent, on full tenant's repairing…
Inmarsat plc is a globally recognised provider of mobile satellite services, formed in 1979 as a treaty-based organisation and listed in England since 2005, with some 463,058,610 shares in issue. Part of its income derives from a…