Summary A court declared that if Russian enforcement proceedings against a former bank chairman were to conclude that a pledge of shares by him as security in a business transaction had been perfected, then he was in breach of receivership and freezing orders and should use his best endeavours to...

Summary The court had an inherent jurisdiction to make a civil restraint order against a third party who was controlled by an individual who had persistently made totally without merit applications where that party, still under the individual's control, was either making or issuing, or threatening to make or issue,...

Summary There was sufficient evidence of a risk that an individual might dissipate assets in which his former partner claimed to have an interest to justify granting an interim freezing injunction without notice. However, since the evidence did not demonstrate that the individual had a general propensity to dissipate assets,...

Summary An order that a Kazakhstan law firm pay interim costs stayed on condition that it pay that sum into court immediately, otherwise its pending appeal would be stayed. It was also just for the firm to pay a sum into court as security for the respondents' costs of the...

Summary A court found that the last will and testament of a deceased had been executed as a result of the undue influence of a person whose children were the principal beneficiaries of that will and under which the deceased's step-children were largely disinherited. The court found in favour of...

Summary A district judge had not erred in refusing to set aside a statutory demand issued following a guarantor's failure to comply with his repayment obligations, as the guarantor had not demonstrated that there was a genuine issue to try. Facts The appellant (F) appealed against a decision of a...

Summary It was generally accepted practice that if a company could demonstrate that a debt on which a winding-up petition was founded was genuinely disputed on substantial grounds, the petition would be struck out. The extent to which the court should go to determine whether there was such a dispute...

Summary The evidence of a company director in disqualification proceedings, asserting his lack of knowledge of his company's involvement in VAT evasion, was struck out as an abuse of process. The VAT tribunal had previously found that the director had knowledge of the VAT evasion, and although there was an...

Summary In view of its very wide ambit, the test in Owners of the Sardinia Sulcis v Owners of the Al Tawwab [1991] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 201 as to whether it was possible to identify an intended claimant or defendant "by reference to a description which was more or less specific to the...