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News

Mitchell v Al Jaber features in The Lawyer’s Top 10 Appeals of 2025

We are delighted to announce that Clare Stanley KC and Jia Wei Lee‘s case of Mitchell v Al Jaber appears in The Lawyer’s Top 10 appeals of 2025 which identifies this year’s most-talked-about disputes in the Court of Appeal and... Read more

Monday 13 January 2025

News

Nine Wilberforce barristers feature in three of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2025

We are delighted to announce that Wilberforce barristers appear in three of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2025, identifying the upcoming year’s most-talked-about disputes. Nine of our members are involved across the highlighted matters. The Public Institution For Social... Read more

Monday 6 January 2025

Recent Cases

Supreme Court hands down judgment in LA Micro Group Inc v LA Micro Group (UK) Ltd and others [2024]

Company law, Commercial disputes, Trusts, probate and estates: contentious

Clare Stanley KC
Wednesday 11 December 2024

Articles

Marcus v Marcus: can a non-biological child be ‘a child of the settlor’?

Article by Elizabeth Houghton, 4th December 2024 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. In the recent judgment of Marcus v Marcus [2024] EWHC 2086, Master Marsh found that the words “the children and remoter issue of... Read more

By Elizabeth Houghton
Wednesday 4 December 2024

Recent Cases

Invest Bank P.S.C. v El-Husseini & Ors: Important Commercial Court case providing guidance on pleading and proving cases under s.423 Insolvency Act 1986

Commercial disputes, Civil fraud and asset recovery

Tim Penny KC | Tiffany Scott KC
Tuesday 3 December 2024

Recent Cases

Receiver restored – an interim remedy in shareholder disputes

Company law, Commercial disputes, International / offshore

Nikki Singla KC
Thursday 7 November 2024

Recent Cases

Blower v GH Canfields – claimant fails to establish case on negligence or causation

Professional liability, Insolvency, Trusts, probate and estates: contentious

Jonathan Seitler KC | Lemuel Lucan-Wilson
Tuesday 5 November 2024

Recent Cases

Court rejects application for Norwich Pharmacal order in the Magomedov litigation

Commercial disputes, Civil fraud and asset recovery, Company law

Bobby Friedman | Rachael Earle
Thursday 24 October 2024

Recent Cases

Commercial Court grants Norwich Pharmacal order in Filatona Trading and Oleg Deripaska v Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK

Civil fraud and asset recovery, Commercial disputes, Company law, International / offshore

Thomas Grant KC
Tuesday 15 October 2024

Recent Cases

High Court hands down judgment on Jaffé v Greybull Capital LLP

Commercial disputes, Civil fraud and asset recovery

John Wardell KC
Thursday 10 October 2024

Articles

Testamentary capacity: warning signs and professional best practice

Article by Simon Atkinson, 30th September 2024 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. The recent decision of Joanna Smith J in Leonard v Leonard [2024] EWHC 321 (Ch) is instructive for private client practitioners, non-contentious and... Read more

By Simon Atkinson
Monday 30 September 2024

Articles

Guidance on representatives appointed under CPR 19.12: Answers… and more questions

Article by Benedict Evans, 29th August 2024 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. 1. The role of a representative appointed to represent an estate for the purpose of litigation only was first created by section... Read more

Tuesday 3 September 2024