Summary In a claim concerning alleged bribery and corruption, a confidentiality club was extended to include an officer of the claimant, which was a sovereign wealth fund in Libya, who had been on a committee investigating corruption. His knowledge of the authority's trades, employees and the people in power at...

Summary Proceedings concerning the trustees of a company limited by guarantee that was a registered charity were charity proceedings under the Charities Act 2011 s.115(2) that required permission from the Charity Commission or the court. The proceedings were stayed and an interim injunction preventing a trustee election was continued pending a...

Summary The court considered applications under CPR r.31.22 and r.32.12 for permission for the collateral use of documents disclosed and witness statements served in proceedings arising out of an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. It observed that the public interest was against the collateral use of documents forming part...

Summary The court refused to grant an interim order for delivery up of various valuable items which had been seized by court enforcement officers pursuant to a writ of delivery. The claimants had not established that there was a serious issue to be tried. Furthermore, they could not assert that...

Summary Where a lease had been assigned by a tenant in breach of covenant, a re-assignment of the lease back to the original tenant, together with the guarantor of the original tenant's obligations giving a fresh guarantee, would not be invalidated by the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995 s.25 as...

Summary The court construed clauses in limited liability partnership agreements to determine the extent of the designated member's obligation to disclose tax documents to members who were seeking to establish that the partnerships had engaged in fraud. A clause requiring disclosure of "relevant information ... necessary for the administration of members'...

Summary There had been no good reason for ordering that a claimant's emailing a copy of a claim form to the defendant should be permitted as good service. Facts The appellant (B) appealed against a deputy master's order that the emailing to it of a claim form by the respondent ...

Summary A judge had not erred in approving a scheme put forward by the executor of an estate aimed at facilitating the resolution of personal injury claims against the estate. The scheme was neither intrinsically flawed nor one that no reasonable executor could have promoted. Facts The appellant trustees of...

Summary A judge had been right to refuse to allow a claimant to re-amend its particulars of claim. The proposed re-amendments fundamentally recast the particulars of claim, made it five times longer than the original, and did not contain a concise statement of the facts relied upon in support of...