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Welcome to the latest finance litigation update, in which we summarise some of the most significant cases and other developments relevant to banks and other financial ..
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Our first article in this series summarised a recent English judgment in the long-running dispute between the Republic of Kazakhstan, the National Bank of Kazakhstan a..
LIBOR will cease to be published (or at least LIBOR panel banks will no longer be compelled to submit quotes) in December 2021.
In recent years there has been a growing trend for injunctions against unnamed defendants or “persons unknown”.
The Commercial Court in London has recently given judgment in the latest instalment of a long-running dispute concerning the Republic of Kazakhstan, the National Bank ..
The answer (in 1881) was: “This subject is always a difficult one” Quoting from that judgment in 2020, the Court of Appeal observed: “the subject has not become any mo..
In a recent decision, the Commercial Court has provided guidance on the interpretation of the ISDA Master Agreement and 2000 Definitions.
Nobody knows what will happen over the coming months. But decisions on complying with contractual obligations need to be taken now nonetheless. We highlight key issues..
When and why will the courts imply a term into a contract? This vexed question was recently considered by the courts in Taqa Bratani & Ors v Rockrose UKCS8 LLC [2020] ..
The EU Withdrawal Act 2018, as amended by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020, (the “Act”) repealed the European Communities Act 1972 (the “ECA”) on Exi..
In what looks likely to be a long-running and high profile legal battle, with enormous sums of public money at stake, the Court of Appeal has upheld the decision of th..
The Court may dispense with service of a claim form in exceptional circumstances (CPR 6.16(1)).
This Supreme Court decision concerned the enforceability of an agreement between an estate agent and a vendor.
In one of the first cases to apply Cavendish Square v Makdessi [2015] UKSC 67, the Supreme Court's seminal decision on penalty clauses, the Commercial Court has held t..
In this case, Abbeygate (a developer) appealed a decision of the High Court awarding Gaia damages of £1.4 million.
In this Court of Appeal case, the Appellants succeeded in bringing a claim under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (the “Act”), even though they were ne..