Andrew Twigger KC succeeded in the Court of Appeal in upholding the Judge’s order, despite the Court of Appeal rejecting the reasons the Judge gave for his decision. The dispute concerned the beneficial ownership of shares in a company. The shares had been held on trust for individuals...

On 22 November 2022, joint administrators were appointed to Scentrics Information Security Technologies Limited (“Scentrics”) by the executors of a deceased qualifying floating charge holder. Scentrics was described in the proceedings as a “technology IP company operating in the field of post-quantum cryptography and advanced machine learning techniques”. Mr Guruparan Chandrasekaran (Scentrics’...

A highly anticipated judgment has been handed down from the High Court, allowing for service via Non-Fungible Token (NFT) on a defendant as the sole means of service. Osbourne v Persons Unknown & Ors [2023] EWHC 340 (KB) concerns Ms. Lavinia Osbourne, who sought to restrict the movement of two NFTs, which were...

Richard Morgan KC leading Ryan Turner acting for the Claimants in US$500m fraud proceedings before the Gibraltar Supreme Court

Andrew Twigger KC represented the successful appellant in the Supreme Court. The lead judgment by Lady Rose contains important clarifications to the law concerning implied terms and the circumstances in which the terms of a contract between the parties bar an unjust enrichment remedy. Mr Barton agreed orally with...