8th Mar 2021
Richard Dew successfully defends a claim asserting that Norwegian inheritance applies to the estate of an individual who had lived in Norway but died domiciled in Wales – and at the same time shows that the earlier decision in Banks v Natwest Bank regarding the principles of ademption (which he also appeared in) did not […]
10th Feb 2021
Sam Laughton recently acted for the successful claimant in Patel v Barlows Solicitors (A Firm) [2021] 4 WLR 6. After a 5-day trial in the Chancery Division, it was held that an abortive joint venture for the purchase and sale of properties was a “business” within the meaning of the Partnership Act 1890. In the alternative, it was held that the monies advanced […]
22nd Sep 2020
Paul Stafford recently appeared with Fenner Moeran QC in a trial in the Chancery Division before Falk J in Wynne-Finch & Ors v Natural Resources Body for Wales [2020] EWHC 1924 (Ch) (27 July 2020). The decision has already aroused much interest and is the first for some years on the subject of manorial mineral […]
27th Aug 2020
Richard Dew recently appeared before Chief Master Marsh in Cotterell and Cutsem v Allendale and Beaumont [2020] EWHC 2234. The case clarified an important point of principle for practitioners—whether section 57 of the Trustee Act 1925 permits the court to vary trustees’ management or administration powers generally, or whether a specific transaction must be envisaged. […]
6th Aug 2020
Simon Taube QC recently appeared in the Supreme Court on behalf of the successful appellant in Lehtimäki and others v Cooper [2020] UKSC 33. The Court restored the decision at first instance of Vos J, holding that the court had an inherent jurisdiction to order a member of a charitable company, as a fiduciary, to […]
24th Jun 2020
Eason Rajah QC, Georgia Bedworth and James Kirby act for the successful claimaint in Hinduja v Hinduja in the High Court on Tuesday. “The billionaire Hinduja brothers are locked in a bitter High Court battle over the family’s vast assets. Srichand Hinduja, 84, is suing his brothers Gopichand, Prakash and Ashok over a July 2014 […]
12th May 2020
Philip Jenkins recently represented the successful claimant in the High Court and the Court of Appeal in a farming proprietary estoppel claim reported at [2019] EWHC 869 (Ch) and [2020] EWCA Civ. 387. The first instance decision and the decision of the Court of Appeal contain important analysis of the correct approach to ‘remedy’ in […]