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Upper Tribunal rules in important charity case

Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs v Life Services Limited (Upper Tribunal) [2017] UKUT 484 (TCC) Jonathan Davey QC has acted successfully for the Appellants in an important charity / tax dispute before the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber).... Read more

Tuesday 30 January 2018

News

Kuehn v Victory Place Management

David Phillips QC has represented the Appellants in their appeal before the Chancellor in Kuehn v Victory Place Management.  The appeal was a challenge by lessees to the management company’s application of a no-pets policy.  As well as its human/canine... Read more

Monday 29 January 2018

Publications

Kerr & Hunter on Receivers and Administrators

December 2017

Recent Cases

The Pensions Regulator v Payae & Ors

High Court of Justice

Jonathan Hilliard KC | James Walmsley | Elizabeth Houghton
Thursday 25 January 2018

News

Groundbreaking fraud decision: The Pensions Regulator v Payae & Ors

Judgment was handed down in the case of The Pensions Regulator v Payae & Ors on 23 January 2018 following a trial at the end of 2017. The Regulator obtained judgment for over £13.7m against the mastermind of a liberation... Read more

Thursday 25 January 2018

News

Permission to appeal from the Supreme Court in the case of S Franses Ltd v The Cavendish Hotel (London) Ltd

Joanne Wicks QC and Benjamin Faulkner have secured permission to appeal from the Supreme Court in the case of S Franses Ltd v The Cavendish Hotel (London) Ltd. The case raises the issue whether a landlord can prevent the grant... Read more

Thursday 25 January 2018

Recent Cases

British Telecommunications Plc V (1) BT Pension Scheme Trustees Limited (2) Linda Bruce-Watt [2018] EWHC 69 (Ch)

Chancery Division

Brian Green KC | Robert Ham KC | Emily McKechnie | James McCreath | Michael Furness KC
Friday 19 January 2018

News

British Telecommunications Plc V (1) BT Pension Scheme Trustees Limited (2) Linda Bruce-Watt [2018] EWHC 69 (Ch)

Judgment was given today by Zacaroli J in BT plc v BT Pension Scheme Trustees Limited.  The case again raised the issue whether it was open to a Scheme’s sponsoring employer to move pension indexation from RPI to CPI.  In... Read more

Friday 19 January 2018

Recent Cases

IPCO (Nigeria) Ltd v Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)

Commercial Court

Alan Gourgey KC | Emily McKechnie
Wednesday 17 January 2018

News

Wilberforce co-edits and contributes to Kerr & Hunter on Receivers & Administrators

Members of Wilberforce Chambers’ Insolvency Team have co-edited, and contributed to, the latest edition of Sweet & Maxwell’s leading insolvency text, Kerr & Hunter on Receivers and Administrators. Tom Robinson was one of two editors of the work, and chapters... Read more

Monday 15 January 2018

News

Gazprom awarded $2bn in long-running SCC arbitration

Gazprom has secured a substantial award in its favour in a long-running and hard-fought SCC arbitration against Naftogaz. The dispute related to a long term gas supply contract. In a ruling handed down by the tribunal on 22 December 2017,... Read more

Tuesday 2 January 2018

Recent Cases

Naftogaz v Gazprom (SCC Arbitration)

The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce

Alan Gourgey KC
Friday 22 December 2017