The High Court of Trinidad & Tobago has handed down judgment in Namalco v. Estate Management and Business Development Company Ltd (EMBD) CV 2016 01522, finding an unlawful means conspiracy between mega contractor Namalco Construction and ex-senior officials of the Government entity EMBD to inflate prices for the development of roads and housing...
Despite the fact that the UK has now left the EU, issues concerning the interpretation of EU regulations will continue to affect litigants in this jurisdiction for some time to come. Alec McCluskey recently represented a claimant seeking to obtain repayment of interest-free loans made in England to a resident...
Thomas Munby and James Mitchell were instructed by Georgina Squire and Hannah Sharp of Rosling King LLP on behalf of WWRT Limited and led by Andrew Ayres QC of Twenty Essex. Facts WWRT Limited (“WWRT”) had obtained, ex parte, a worldwide freezing order (“the WFO”) against Mr Serhiy Tyshchenko (“ST”)...
Summary Richard Fowler acted for the successful appellant landlord, Sara, before the Court of Appeal and at first instance in a dispute over service charges claimed pursuant to a “conclusive certification” clause in leases of commercial premises. The reasoning of the Court of Appeal’s judgment is also applicable in...
Summary Thomas Grant QC and Thomas Fletcher were instructed by Grosvenor Law on behalf of the Claimants (“Maroil”) in respect of an application for security for costs made by the Defendants (“Novoship”). The application raised an important point of principle on when a claimant should be ordered to provide security...
Summary Thomas Grant QC, Narinder Jhittay, Ryan Turner, and Charles King were instructed by Berkeley Rowe International Lawyers in a commercial dispute in the Circuit Commercial Court on behalf of the UK College of Business & Computing. At the outset, Thomas Grant QC and Ryan Turner successfully obtained an interim injunction...
The court was required to determine issues in the administrations of two Lehman Brothers companies (P and L) concerning the priority of certain subordinated debts for the purpose of distributing funds in the administrators' hands. P and L were intermediate holding companies in the Lehman Brothers group. L was the...
Summary The Court of Appeal has provided authoritative guidance on the abuse of process known as “warehousing” in its first judgment on the subject for almost 20 years. David Mumford QC and James Kinman appeared for the successful respondent. Facts The case concerns a dispute over a high value London property,...
Summary Thomas Grant QC and Ryan Turner, acting on behalf of the owners of the Canary Riverside development, have successfully resisted an application for an injunction to control the use of documents over which the applicant asserted confidentiality and legal professional privilege. Mr Justice Nicol handed down judgment yesterday, despite...