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.
MBNA Europe Bank Ltd is a "monoline" credit card bank and a partially exempt trader, its core business consisting of exempt supplies of credit falling within Group 5 of Schedule 9 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994. It raises…
Capital One Bank (Europe) plc ("COBE"), a monoline credit card issuer incorporated in the United Kingdom and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the United States corporation Capital One Bank ("COBUS"), took over COBUS's United Kingdom…
In 1995 Mr Sandhu and Mr Gill agreed as partners at will to purchase 59 Mountdale Gardens, Leigh On Sea, Essex, to convert it into an old people's residential home and to carry on that business there. The property was duly…
The claimant, Hawk Shipping Limited, the owners of the vessel Sea Hawk II, and the defendant, Cron Navigation Limited, the charterers, are both Maltese companies. The vessel was time chartered on an amended Baltime 1939 form for…
The appellant, R J Tilbury & Sons (Devon) Ltd, trading as East Devon Shellfish, processed whelks at Exmouth in Devon, some 200 miles by road from Milford Haven. On 15 February 1996 the Sea Empress grounded at St Ann's Head…
Broomco (1984) Ltd, formerly Anchor Foods Ltd, imported butter from New Zealand between 7 March 1994 and 8 December 1997 accompanied by certificates that it satisfied the conditions for preferential access to the European…