Michael Gibbon KC and Maxim Cardew acted for the Official Receiver in his successful appeal to the Court of Appeal against the judgment in Shop Direct Finance Company Limited v The Official Receiver [2022] EWHC 1355 (Comm); [2022] BPIR 1280. The case arose against the backdrop of the PPI mis-selling scandal, which has...
Michael Gibbon QC and Maxim Cardew acted for the Official Receiver in Shop Direct Finance Company Limited v The Official Receiver [2022] EWHC 1355 (Comm). The case concerned bulk PPI complaints made in respect of thousands of bankrupt consumers of whom the Official Receiver is the trustee in bankruptcy, and in particular...
The High Court handed down judgment in Sarah Butler-Sloss and Others v The Charity Commission and HM Attorney General [2022] EWHC 974 (Ch) on 29 April 2022. Maxim Cardew appeared with Edward Cumming QC for Sarah Butler-Sloss, Mark Sainsbury, and the other successful Claimants (as trustees of the Ashden Trust and the Mark Leonard...
Summary John McGhee QC and Maxim Cardew successfully appear for Prudential (the landlord) in a claim brought by EMI (the guarantor) in relation to a lease of valuable commercial premises on Oxford Street formerly occupied by HMV. Maxim also analyses the decision in an article, which can be found here....