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Disposals in administration [Part 1]: Who is “connected”?
David Pollard and Thomas Robinson have recorded our latest WebChat which discusses new restrictions on sales and other disposals in administration under paragraph 60A of Sch B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 and the Administration (Restrictions on Disposal etc to Connected Persons) Regulations... Read more
David Pollard | Thomas Robinson KC
Monday 28 February 2022
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Articles
Can unlawful dividends received by company director/shareholders be later reclassified as remuneration to avoid liability?
By Jessica Brooke
Monday 28 February 2022
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News
Lebanese banks – who have been refusing to pay customers due to the country’s economic crisis – ordered to make international transfers
In one of The Lawyer’s ‘Top 20 Cases of 2022’, Manoukian v Société Générale Banque Liban and Bank Audi, Bobby Friedman and Caspar Bartscherer (led by Daniel Toledano QC), have successfully acted for Mr Manoukian in obtaining an order for... Read more
Monday 28 February 2022
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Alice Hawker joins Wilberforce Chambers
Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to announce that commercial chancery junior Alice Hawker has joined Chambers, with effect from today, Monday 14th February 2022. Alice has significant experience of property litigation, and is also regularly instructed on cases involving civil fraud... Read more
Monday 14 February 2022
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Webchats
What’s the Broad Idea? Freezing injunctions in the Privy Council
John McGhee KC and Daniel Petrides discuss the important recent decision of the Privy Council in Broad Idea International Ltd v Convoy Collateral Ltd (British Virgin Islands) [2021] UKPC 24 on the scope of injunctive relief.
John McGhee KC | Daniel Petrides
Tuesday 8 February 2022
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Articles
Virtual property as trust assets and investments
By Gilead Cooper KC
Thursday 20 January 2022
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Articles
Voices of women at the Chancery Bar
Thursday 20 January 2022
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News
Wilberforce features three times in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2022
We are delighted to announce that Wilberforce Chambers appears in three of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2022, identifying this year’s most talked about disputes: The Executive Counsel to the Financial Reporting Council v KPMG, Peter Noel Meehan, Alistair... Read more
Monday 10 January 2022
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Articles
Summarily judging fraud: Bringing claims to an early close
Tuesday 14 December 2021
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News
New Title: Connected and Associated: Insolvency and Pensions Law
We are delighted to announce that David Pollard‘s new book: Connected and Associated: Insolvency and Pensions Law has just been published by Bloomsbury Professional. It discusses, in detail, the meaning and scope of the ‘connected’, ‘associated’ and ‘control’ tests used... Read more
Thursday 9 December 2021
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Publications
Connected and Associated: Insolvency and Pensions Law
David Pollard
December 2021
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Recent Cases
The Libyan Investment Authority v Credit Suisse and others [2021] EWHC 2684 (Comm)
Commercial disputes, Banking and financial services, Civil fraud and asset recovery
Alan Gourgey KC | Anna Littler
Wednesday 8 December 2021
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Disposals in administration [Part 1]: Who is “connected”?

Can unlawful dividends received by company director/shareholders be later reclassified as remuneration to avoid liability?

Lebanese banks – who have been refusing to pay customers due to the country’s economic crisis – ordered to make international transfers

Alice Hawker joins Wilberforce Chambers

What’s the Broad Idea? Freezing injunctions in the Privy Council

Virtual property as trust assets and investments

Voices of women at the Chancery Bar

Wilberforce features three times in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2022

Summarily judging fraud: Bringing claims to an early close

New Title: Connected and Associated: Insolvency and Pensions Law

Connected and Associated: Insolvency and Pensions Law

The Libyan Investment Authority v Credit Suisse and others [2021] EWHC 2684 (Comm)