Articles
Cryptocurrencies and trusts: Watch and learn
By Daniel Scott
Thursday 7 April 2022
Insights
Recent Cases
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank PJSC v Shetty & others [2022] EWHC 529 (Comm)
Commercial disputes, Banking and financial services, Civil fraud and asset recovery
Tim Penny KC
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Monday 4 April 2022
Articles
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
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Thursday 31 March 2022
Articles
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
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Thursday 17 March 2022
Articles
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
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Thursday 3 March 2022
Articles
TL4 HNW Divorce Magazine – 60 seconds with Jonathan Hilliard KC
By Jonathan Hilliard KC
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Monday 28 February 2022
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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Articles
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
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Thursday 17 February 2022
News
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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News
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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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
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Tuesday 8 February 2022
News
Leading Pensions and Trusts Junior Jennifer Seaman joins Wilberforce
Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to announce that Jennifer Seaman has joined our pensions and trusts teams, with effect from today, Monday 7th February 2022. Jennifer is recommended as a leading junior by both Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500,... Read more
Monday 7 February 2022
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