Summary It was appropriate to make an order requiring a company and its liquidators to disclose and permit the inspection of certain documents in accordance with the Insolvency Act 1986 s.112 and s.155 for use by companies in respect of overseas arbitration in which they were involved with other parties. Facts...

Summary A notice purportedly exercising a put option was not a valid notice in terms of the put option agreement. Facts The applicant (D) applied to set aside orders for service out of the jurisdiction and alternative service, the service that took place pursuant thereto and judgment entered in default....

Summary Provided that the Copyright Tribunal discharged its statutory duty under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s.126 to determine the terms of a licence that were reasonable in the circumstances by having regard to comparable schemes and licences as well as all other relevant considerations, then the precise way...

Summary In an expedited trial the court construed aspects of various agreements between mobile phone network operators and the owners of sites on which telecommunications equipment was provided. Facts In an expedited trial the court construed aspects of various agreements between the claimants (X) and defendants (E and O), who...

Summary The court had jurisdiction to confer power on the trustees of a family trust to carry out a proposed transaction to appropriate and partition trust property to create a sub-fund as it was "administration of any property vested in the trustees" within the Trustee Act 1925 s.57(1). Facts The appellant...

Summary Christopher R. Parker QC succeeds before the Caribbean Court of Justice in Trinidad in overturning two decisions of the Guyana Court of Appeal as to the validity of a directors’ resolution and a contrary resolution of a shareholders’ meeting.

Summary A judge had been entitled to find that a tenant had no reasonable prospect of defending a claim for trespass made by a head lessee concerning the tenant's installation of air-conditioning units on the roof of a block of flats. The freeholder and head lessee would not have consented...

Summary An application by administrators for directions to enable them to identify client money and its traceable proceeds received or held by a company which was in administration was adjourned as it was appropriate to await the outcome of a pending appeal to the Supreme Court on related matters. Facts...

Summary An insolvent Kazakh bank had not abused the court process by pursuing actions to recover misappropriated assets. Although it was arguable that the President of Kazakhstan had persuaded the bank to bring the actions in order to eliminate a political opponent, it was unrealistic to suppose that the proceedings...