Summary It was not unarguable, nor was there no reasonable prospect of success in establishing, that there had been a breach of fiduciary duty and knowing receipt of profits arising out of that breach by a group of defendants with inter-related corporate vehicles in relation to a farm property development....

Summary Borrowers who had not repaid a loan on time and had not properly complied with the terms of an offer of settlement made by the lender were not entitled to possession of two Land Registry "Form DS1s" which would cancel entries on the Land Register relating to charges...

Contested application for freezing order against managing director of firm of solicitors accused of £22m fraud against the Legal Aid Agency (as sole advocate).

Summary The court had jurisdiction under the Senior Courts Act 1981 s.37 to grant a notification injunction restraining defendants in an unlawful means conspiracy claim from disposing or dealing with their assets without prior notification. The injunction was granted as the claimants had demonstrated a good arguable case that there was...

Summary The court had jurisdiction under the Senior Courts Act 1981 s.37 to grant a notification injunction restraining defendants in an unlawful means conspiracy claim from disposing or dealing with their assets without prior notification. The injunction was granted as the claimants had demonstrated a good arguable case that there was...

Summary Certain "land banking" schemes, under which a company marketed plots of land on sites to investors by undertaking to progress planning procedures at the sites, procure the sites' sale and pay the investors a share of the consideration, were unauthorised collective investment schemes within the Financial Services and Markets...

Summary On the proper construction of a "clawback" agreement between a hedge fund and its fund managers, the hedge fund could claw back a discretionary bonus paid to an individual fund manager only if it could establish a causal link between the losses sustained by the funds for which that...

Summary It was not fatal to a claim to an equity under the principle in Pallant v Morgan [1953] Ch. 43 that negotiations between the parties were expressly subject to contract. However, the court determined that two companies which had entered into negotiations with a view to acquiring a property as joint...

Summary The extent of an exclusive prescriptive right to take cockles and mussels from a stretch of the foreshore on the east side of the Wash, on the west coast of Norfolk, was to be determined, on its western, seaward boundary, by reference to the lowest astronomical tide. The right...