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Can unlawful dividends received by company director/shareholders be later reclassified as remuneration to avoid liability?

By Jessica Brooke
Monday 28 February 2022

Articles

TL4 HNW Divorce Magazine – 60 seconds with Jonathan Hilliard KC

By Jonathan Hilliard KC
Monday 28 February 2022

News

Lebanese banks – who have been refusing to pay customers due to the country’s economic crisis – ordered to make international transfers

In one of The Lawyer’s ‘Top 20 Cases of 2022’, Manoukian v Société Générale Banque Liban and Bank Audi, Bobby Friedman and Caspar Bartscherer (led by Daniel Toledano QC), have successfully acted for Mr Manoukian in obtaining an order for... Read more

Monday 28 February 2022

Recent Cases

Lucas v Gilbert [2022] 2 WLUK 177

County Court

James Goodwin
Thursday 24 February 2022

News

Lucas v Gilbert [2022] 2 WLUK 177: joint ventures between solicitors and clients, fiduciary duties and undue influence

Judgment has been handed down in Lucas v Gilbert [2022] 2 WLUK 177. A solicitor and his client entered into a joint venture in respect of the development of a property, by which the solicitor provided the purchase costs and... Read more

Thursday 24 February 2022

Articles

Womble Bond Dickinson (Trust Corporation) Ltd (as trustee of the Stephris Trust) v No Named Defendant [2022] EWHC 43 (Ch): Taking action against potentially collusive actions?

To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Benjamin Slingo Introduction One way this case differs from most is obvious from its name. There was a claimant, but no defendant. Nevertheless, the court was... Read more

By Benjamin Slingo
Thursday 17 February 2022

News

Alice Hawker joins Wilberforce Chambers

Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to announce that commercial chancery junior Alice Hawker has joined Chambers, with effect from today, Monday 14th February 2022. Alice has significant experience of property litigation, and is also regularly instructed on cases involving civil fraud... Read more

Monday 14 February 2022

News

Wilberforce Chambers announces TL4 Private Client Community Partnership

Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to announce that we have joined ThoughtLeaders4 Private Client as a Community Partner. This comes as an addition to our already existing Community Partnership with ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE which we have renewed for another year. ThoughtLeaders4 is... Read more

Tuesday 8 February 2022

Webchats

What’s the Broad Idea? Freezing injunctions in the Privy Council

John McGhee KC and Daniel Petrides discuss the important recent decision of the Privy Council in Broad Idea International Ltd v Convoy Collateral Ltd (British Virgin Islands) [2021] UKPC 24 on the scope of injunctive relief.

John McGhee KC | Daniel Petrides
Tuesday 8 February 2022

Recent Cases

Punter Southall Governance Services Ltd v Benge [2022] EWHC 193 (Ch)

Pensions

Paul Newman KC | Michael Ashdown
Monday 7 February 2022

News

Leading Pensions and Trusts Junior Jennifer Seaman joins Wilberforce

Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to announce that Jennifer Seaman has joined our pensions and trusts teams, with effect from today, Monday 7th February 2022. Jennifer is recommended as a leading junior by both Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500,... Read more

Monday 7 February 2022

Articles

The Correction of Mistakes in Trusts

To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Paul Newman QC We all make mistakes; and we are often judged, not by the mistake itself, but by how we respond to it. In my... Read more

By Paul Newman KC
Thursday 3 February 2022