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Some oddities of the law on age: So you thought you reached age 21 on your 21st birthday?
Written by David Pollard Well, yes you probably did as a legal matter reach (or attain) age 21 at the start of your 21st birthday – ie at midnight at the start of that day (even if you had been... Read more
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Terminating leases for repudiatory breach
Commentary by Charlotte Black of our property team. To view and download this article as a pdf, please click here. Introduction to repudiatory breach A repudiatory breach of a contract (or a renunciation)[1] can be a powerful weapon in... Read more
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Insolvency Breakfast Briefing – Remuneration tips from the top
Wilberforce Chambers’ insolvency team is delighted to invite you to our latest breakfast briefing, featuring topical talks delivered by Lexa Hilliard QC and Cara Goldthorpe. Please see below for more information. 8.30am: Registration and breakfast 8.45am: Talks delivered by Lexa... Read more
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Zoë Barton and Andrew Mold to be appointed Queen’s Counsel
Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to announce that Zoë Barton and Andrew Mold are to be appointed Queen’s Counsel. The formal ceremony at which newly appointed QCs make the declaration before the Lord Chancellor will take place at Westminster Hall on... Read more
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Court of Appeal case Grupo Mexico v Registrar of Companies features in The Times
The Court of Appeal case of In re Infund LLP (Grupo México SAB de CV and another v Registrar of Companies (England and Wales) and others) appeared in yesterday’s edition of The Times (16th January 2020). John Wardell QC and... Read more
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Trusts in Litigation (ConTrA) – Debate Civil Fraud: Is civil fraud about anything other than making sure the fraudster loses?
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Recent Cases
National Bank Trust v Ilya Yurov & Ors [2020] EWHC 100 (Comm)
Following an eight week trial in late 2018, the High Court has handed down judgment finding against the former majority shareholders of Russia’s National Bank Trust who were alleged to have misappropriated over $1billion of Bank funds via a sophisticated... Read more
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National Bank Trust v Ilya Yurov & Ors [2020] EWHC 100 (Comm)
Following an eight week trial in late 2018, the High Court has handed down judgment finding against the former majority shareholders of Russia’s National Bank Trust who were alleged to have misappropriated over $1billion of Bank funds via a sophisticated... Read more
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In the matter of Comet Group Limited (in Liquidation) [2018] EWHC 1378 (Ch) – reporting restrictions lifted on 28 January 2020
This judgment is an important one. It concerned an application by the joint liquidators of Comet (formerly joint administrators) for directions permitting them not to carry out any further investigation into the validity of the fixed and floating charge held... Read more
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Alan Gourgey QC and Joanne Wicks QC recognised in The Lawyer Hot 100 2020
We are delighted to announce that both Alan Gourgey QC and Joanne Wicks QC have been listed in this year’s “The Lawyer Hot 100”! The Lawyer’s annual list “recognises the most daring, innovative and creative lawyers from in-house, private practice... Read more