David Mumford KC was a part of the team, instructed by BCLP, acting for the Legal & General claimants in Various investors v Glencore and Steven Kalmin. Read the full judgment: Aabar Holdings SARL v Glencore Plc
David Mumford KC and James Kinman acted for the National Iranian Oil Company (“NIOC”) before the Court of Appeal, together with Bankim Thanki KC, Laura Newton and Marc Delehanty. The wide-ranging judgment explores fundamental issues relating to the law of trusts and their interaction with the transaction avoidance provisions of...
David Mumford KC and Watson Pringle, instructed by Mark Hastings and Abigail Healey of Quillon Law, acted for PJSC Far-Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO) in its successful challenge to the English Court’s jurisdiction to hear the $13.8 billion claim brought against it in the Commercial Court by Ziyavudin Magomedov and others....
In Oscar Trustee Limited v MBS Software Solutions Limited, Mr Justice Webster has dispelled the Halliwel myth that r 7.14 of the BVI CPR (now r 7.17) is a freestanding source of power to grant permission to serve an application out of the jurisdiction. Oscar Trustee had pursued a claim against a...
David Mumford KC and James Kinman acted, with assistance from Emily Gailey, for the claimant in Asturion, one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2023. David and James were successful on a number of important and difficult issues relating to the nature and effect of ostensible authority, how English conflict...
Just and equitable winding up proceedings in the BVI and Cayman relating to 4 investment funds, in which some $500m has been invested and (allegedly) mismanaged. David Mumford KC led in the EC Court of Appeal in a sizeable appeal on issues relating to the appointment of provisional liquidators and...
On 26 May 2023 Mr Justice Butcher handed down judgment in Goyal & Anor v BGF Investment Management Limited & Ors [2023] EWHC 1180 (Comm). David Mumford KC and Ryan James Turner acted on behalf of four of the defendants in successfully resisting a claim for damages for deceit and unlawful means conspiracy in excess of £40...
The appeal concerned the jurisdiction of the Courts of the British Virgin Islands to grant freezing orders in support of foreign proceedings, to permit service of an application claiming only freestanding freezing relief out of the jurisdiction, and to injunct third parties to the underlying proceedings against whom no substantive...
David Mumford QC and Thomas Munby (with Hugo Leith of Brick Court) act for the State of Qatar in proceedings in the Commercial Court against Banque Havilland SA (the “Bank”). In an important decision on 30 July 2021, David Edwards QC (sitting as a Judge of the High Court) made a number...