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 High Court held that the actor, Ms Eva Green, was entitled to payment of her fee of $1million in respect of the collapsed film “A Patriot” and dismissed the Defendant and Additional Claimant’s claims against Ms Green in full.
The High Court has handed down judgment in THJ Systems v Sheridan [2023] EWHC 927 (Ch), a dispute about intellectual property and expulsion from a two-member limited liability partnership in which Amanda Hadkiss and Ted Loveday acted for the Defendants. The Defendants succeeded in defending all the intellectual property claims...
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...
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...
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...