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    The boundaries of blessing applications – Re XYZ Trusts [2022] SC (Bda) 10 Civ

    To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Lemuel Lucan-Wilson The hearing dealt with a blessing application made by trustees in connection with the restructuring of the trust funds. of some 23 settlements between sub-funds in... Read more

    By Lemuel Lucan-Wilson
    Thursday 31 March 2022

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    Counsel General for Wales & Ors v Gareth Allen (as Official Receiver) & Ors

    On Monday last week, the High Court handed down judgment in Counsel General for Wales & Ors v Gareth Allen (as Official Receiver) & Ors [2022] EWHC 647 (Ch). The case is the first occasion on which the courts have... Read more

    Wednesday 30 March 2022

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    Standing in the Chancellor’s Shoes: Equitable Remedies in the Tribunals

    To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Daniel Petrides Regular readers of this eBriefing will need no persuading of the labyrinthine nature of English tax law, even by the standards of Chancery practice.... Read more

    By Daniel Petrides
    Thursday 17 March 2022

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    Disposals in administration [Part 2]: When is an evaluator independent?

    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 14 March 2022

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    Personal Property+

    To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Gilead Cooper KC For every legal textbook on Personal Property, there is usually a whole shelf devoted to Real Property; the law of personal property is... Read more

    By Gilead Cooper KC
    Thursday 3 March 2022

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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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    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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    TL4 HNW Divorce Magazine – 60 seconds with Jonathan Hilliard KC

    By Jonathan Hilliard KC
    Monday 28 February 2022

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    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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    Womble Bond Dickinson (Trust Corporation) Ltd (as trustee of the Stephris Trust) v No Named Defendant [2022] EWHC 43 (Ch): Taking action against potentially collusive actions?

    To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Benjamin Slingo Introduction One way this case differs from most is obvious from its name. There was a claimant, but no defendant. Nevertheless, the court was... Read more

    By Benjamin Slingo
    Thursday 17 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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    Wilberforce Chambers announces TL4 Private Client Community Partnership

    Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to announce that we have joined ThoughtLeaders4 Private Client as a Community Partner. This comes as an addition to our already existing Community Partnership with ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE which we have renewed for another year. ThoughtLeaders4 is... Read more

    Tuesday 8 February 2022

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