Summary It was not appropriate to discharge an anti-suit injunction preventing the former owners of Liverpool Football Club from issuing proceedings in the United States in relation to the sale of the club. Facts The applicants (RBS and B) applied for permission to amend claims brought against the respondent former...

Summary Claims by a bank, controlled by the state of Kazakhstan, for repayment of sums of money from its former chairman, where the chairman denied the claims on the basis that the claims were politically motivated, were not actions that involved the direct enforcement of a foreign penal, revenue or...

Summary The claimant football club failed to establish on the evidence both that an oral contract had been concluded between it and a football promoter, and that there had been any breach of a warrant of authority by a director of a sports event management business in allegedly purporting to...

Summary An early termination provision in the contract between the parties was not subject to any reasonableness requirement. Facts The claimant (L) claimed damages for breach of contract against the defendant (T). T was a substantial commodities trading company with its principal offices in London and Switzerland. The group had...

Summary Freezing and search orders made against the defendants in a claim for inducing a breach of contract were discharged where the claimant had failed to demonstrate that it had a good arguable case in relation to that claim, there was no real risk of dissipation of the defendants' assets,...

Summary A name and arms clause in a will, which made a beneficiary's enjoyment of an estate conditional upon the adoption of the testator's surname and upon "applying for and endeavouring to obtain" a royal licence to bear arms, was construed as containing two requirements, namely use of surname and...

Summary Where the two members of a joint venture residential development company had agreed upon a final allocation of a parcel of land in the belief that a planning application for development of the land would be granted, there was no scope for re-opening the agreed allocation when planning permission...

Summary On a proper construction of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 s.2, a nominee purchaser could acquire only those parts of a leasehold interest that it needed. Facts The appellant (D), the nominee purchaser in respect of a claim for the collective enfranchisement of a block of...