Summary The lifting of a suspended committal order was set aside where a solicitor who had been instructed by a contemnor had, for over three years, been conducting fictitious litigation which had impeded the contemnor's ability to comply with orders and prepare for the committal hearing, and thereby impacted upon...

Summary A bank's application to set aside the registration of a freezing order and an ancillary disclosure order of a Nigerian court under the Administration of Justice Act 1920 s.9 was granted as those orders could not be registered as they were not "judgments" as defined under s.12 of the Act....

Summary The judge below had been entitled to make an order for costs on the indemnity basis following the claimant's unsuccessful application under the CPR r.31.22; among other things, the fact that the claimant was seeking the relevant documents for extraneous purposes took the case outside the norm. However, there...

Summary A solicitor had acted negligently in failing to advise an investor that a bank guarantee did not form security for a €3 million investment. Facts The claimant (O) brought a claim in negligence against the defendant solicitor (G) for failing to advise him on the effect of a bank guarantee....

Summary The court determined questions of construction in respect of a 1944 trust deed relating to the transfer of a library of books and photographs by its founding family to a London university. The construction summons concerned the scope of the deed, the ownership of property, the status of funding under...

Summary A German municipal water company had made out two grounds on which it was entitled to rescind a single tranche collateralised debt obligation (STCDO) which it had entered into with a bank: there was an agency relationship between the company's financial advisers and the bank, and the advisers had...

Summary The discretion to vary or revoke an order under r.3.1(7) was broad, but considerations of finality required a principled exercise of discretion. It did not provide for a judge of co-ordinate jurisdiction to vary or revoke on the basis that he would have made a different order. Facts The...

Summary The best indication of the value of an asset at any particular time was what someone would pay for it after reasonable attempts had been made to sell it. Evidence to the effect that nobody had been prepared to offer even £2 million for a property after six months' marketing...

Summary The claimant retailer succeeded in its claim for monies due under a contract for the supply of films for sale in its stores. Facts The claimant retailer (S) claimed £1,276,000 from the respondent film distributor (F) pursuant to a contract for the supply of films. Between 1999 and 2006, F supplied S...