English High Court holds that alleged breaches of a director’s statutory duties can engage the ‘iniquity exception’, which disapplies legal professional privilege under certain conditions.
In Barrowfen Properties v Girish...more
High Court holds that English law legal advice privilege can extend to such communications regardless of whether or not the lawyers are in-house practitioners.
In PJSC Tatneft v Gennady Bogolyubov & Ors.,[i] the English...more
Objective test applies if a prior concluded contract exists, but subjective test applies if there is a continuing common intention.
In the recent case of FSHC Group Holdings Limited v. GLAS Trust Corporation Ltd [2019]...more
Applicants challenging jurisdiction must satisfy a single three-limbed test, rather than establish a ‘good arguable case’ and ‘better of the argument’.
The English Court of Appeal has clarified the correct test to be...more
Third-party assets controlled (de facto or de jure) by the respondent are ordinarily outside the scope of a freezing injunction unless exceptional circumstances can be established.
In the recent case of FM Capital Partners...more
English High Court confirms that without notice applicants are under an onerous duty to satisfy the requirement of full and frank disclosure.
In the recent cases of Fundo Soberano de Angola & ors v. Jose Filomeno dos...more