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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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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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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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Voices of women at the Chancery Bar
Thursday 20 January 2022
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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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Summarily judging fraud: Bringing claims to an early close
Tuesday 14 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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A Question of Character: Problems facing the disguised distribution claim
By Daniel Lewis
Tuesday 12 October 2021
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Limitation and Deliberate Concealment after Canada Square v Potter [2021] EWCA CIV 339 (“Canada Square”)
By Thomas Robinson KC
Thursday 13 May 2021
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Recent Cases
Dion Friedland v Charles Hickox
International / offshore, Commercial disputes | Privy Council
David Phillips KC
Thursday 4 February 2021
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Recent Cases
Estate Management and Business Development Co Ltd v Namalco Construction Services Ltd & Ors
International / offshore, Commercial disputes | Court of Appeal, Trinidad & Tobago
David Phillips KC
Tuesday 12 January 2021
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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

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

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

A Question of Character: Problems facing the disguised distribution claim

Limitation and Deliberate Concealment after Canada Square v Potter [2021] EWCA CIV 339 (“Canada Square”)

Dion Friedland v Charles Hickox

Estate Management and Business Development Co Ltd v Namalco Construction Services Ltd & Ors