Summary The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal had been justified in imposing a total fine of £75,000 upon a firm and two partners who had been found guilty of misconduct after allowing the firm's client account to be used as a banking facility by a client who was at risk of insolvency. There...

Appeared for defendants as sole counsel in Commercial Court trial on liability for breach of contract.

Court of Appeal dishonest assistance, breach of duty and fraudulent trading (led by Christopher Parker KC).

A bank established on the civil standard of proof that its customer, an individual who controlled various companies, had adduced untruthful evidence and had forged documents relating to a legal charge over property. The court also considered what kind of error might fall within a "mistake of a clerical or...

Summary In determining a rent review, an arbitrator was not required to set out every reason he had as to the weight to be given to each comparable property. Facts The applicant landlords (L) challenged the award of the second respondent arbitrator regarding a rent review under the commercial lease...

Summary The late Boris Berezovsky's daughter, who was involved in a dispute with the Russian airline, Aeroflot, as to who should administer her father's estate, would be entitled to rely, at the final hearing, on confidential information in the hands of non-parties relating to the solvency of the estate, subject...

Summary A Russian company's action to enforce a money judgment of the Russian court could not be summarily dismissed on the basis that the judgment breached the principle of finality. The English courts would not hold that a foreign judgment infringed the finality principle when it interfered with a prior...

Summary The court was bound by Choudhary v Bhattar [2009] EWCA Civ 1176, [2010] 2 All E.R. 1031 to hold that it was not permitted to order the service of committal proceedings on a director domiciled in a non-Member State under Regulation 44/2001 art.22(5), notwithstanding contrary decisions of the European Court. However, the court could...

Summary In assessing the diminution in value of the landlord's reversion caused by a tenant's breaches of repairing covenants, a judge had been entitled to conclude that the amount of the diminution could be inferred from the cost of the necessary repairs. Facts The appellant tenant (T) appealed against an...