Insights - Wilberforce

Articles

When doing nothing is not enough: the liabilities of directors for inaction

Daniel Lewis has written an article for Issue 14 of TL4 FIRE Magazine’s annual ‘Contentious Insolvency Edition 2023‘. Read the full article

By Daniel Lewis
Monday 25 September 2023

Recent Cases

Supreme Court and Privy Council simultaneously deliver important judgments on arbitration stays

Commercial disputes, International / offshore, International arbitration

Thomas Lowe KC
Monday 25 September 2023

Recent Cases

Tax Tribunal decision on whether partnership structure involved trading

Tax, Joint venture and partnership disputes

Jonathan Davey KC
Monday 25 September 2023

Recent Cases

Judgment handed down: Invest Bank v El Husseini

Commercial disputes, Banking and financial services, International / offshore

Tim Penny KC
Friday 22 September 2023

Articles

Pensions, personal bankruptcy and creditor recovery: recent developments

David Pollard and Joseph Steadman’s article, ‘Pensions, personal bankruptcy and creditor recovery: recent developments’, has been published in Issue 37.2 of Trust Law International by Bloomsbury Publishing. Trust Law International is a well established quarterly journal with a mixed readership... Read more

By David Pollard | Joseph Steadman
Friday 15 September 2023

News

Wilberforce shortlisted in five categories at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2023

We are delighted to announce that Wilberforce has been shortlisted in five different categories at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2023. Chancery Set Real Estate Set Chancery Silk – Tim Penny KC Professional Negligence Silk – Jonathan Seitler KC Real... Read more

Monday 11 September 2023

News

Marcia Shekerdemian KC and Jessica Brooke on the Women in FIRE Advisory Committee

ThoughtLeaders4 has recently launched an initiative that embodies the core values of empowerment, knowledge exchange, and inclusivity – Women in FIRE. We are delighted to announce that Marcia Shekerdemian KC and Jessica Brooke are on the advisory committee. TL4 says: “This endeavour... Read more

Tuesday 29 August 2023

News

Jennifer Seaman appointed to the London A Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown

We are delighted to announce that Jennifer Seaman has been promoted to the London A Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. The appointment is for a period of five years commencing 1st September 2023 and expiring on 31st August... Read more

Tuesday 1 August 2023

Articles

The Separability Principle: the Newcastle Express Case

To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. Ever since the House of Lords decision in Fiona Trust & Holding Corporation v Privalov [2007] UKHL 40, the principle of the separability of arbitration agreements has been... Read more

By Stuart Isaacs KC | Elizabeth Houghton
Monday 10 July 2023

Recent Cases

City Gardens v Dok 82: High Court confirms that a winding up petition may be brought notwithstanding a foreign exclusive jurisdiction clause

Insolvency, International / offshore

Bobby Friedman KC
Monday 15 May 2023

Articles

Mittal v Westbridge: Singapore Court of Appeal charts a novel course for pre-award arbitrability

To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. Arbitrability is a hot topic in international commercial arbitration. There is a developing body of recent case-law, of which the most interesting and important is perhaps the decision... Read more

By Stuart Isaacs KC | Jia Wei Lee
Tuesday 9 May 2023

Recent Cases

Permission to appeal in Mitchell v Al Jaber [2023] EWHC 364 (Ch)

Company law, Commercial disputes, International / offshore

Clare Stanley KC | Jia Wei Lee | Lemuel Lucan-Wilson
Wednesday 5 April 2023