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The Pensions Regulator v Payae & Ors
High Court of Justice
Jonathan Hilliard KC | James Walmsley | Elizabeth Houghton
Thursday 25 January 2018
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Groundbreaking fraud decision: The Pensions Regulator v Payae & Ors
Judgment was handed down in the case of The Pensions Regulator v Payae & Ors on 23 January 2018 following a trial at the end of 2017. The Regulator obtained judgment for over £13.7m against the mastermind of a liberation... Read more
Thursday 25 January 2018
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Permission to appeal from the Supreme Court in the case of S Franses Ltd v The Cavendish Hotel (London) Ltd
Joanne Wicks QC and Benjamin Faulkner have secured permission to appeal from the Supreme Court in the case of S Franses Ltd v The Cavendish Hotel (London) Ltd. The case raises the issue whether a landlord can prevent the grant... Read more
Thursday 25 January 2018
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British Telecommunications Plc V (1) BT Pension Scheme Trustees Limited (2) Linda Bruce-Watt [2018] EWHC 69 (Ch)
Chancery Division
Brian Green KC | Robert Ham KC | James McCreath | Michael Furness KC
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Friday 19 January 2018
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British Telecommunications Plc V (1) BT Pension Scheme Trustees Limited (2) Linda Bruce-Watt [2018] EWHC 69 (Ch)
Judgment was given today by Zacaroli J in BT plc v BT Pension Scheme Trustees Limited. The case again raised the issue whether it was open to a Scheme’s sponsoring employer to move pension indexation from RPI to CPI. In... Read more
Friday 19 January 2018
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IPCO (Nigeria) Ltd v Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
Commercial Court
Alan Gourgey KC
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Wednesday 17 January 2018
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Wilberforce co-edits and contributes to Kerr & Hunter on Receivers & Administrators
Members of Wilberforce Chambers’ Insolvency Team have co-edited, and contributed to, the latest edition of Sweet & Maxwell’s leading insolvency text, Kerr & Hunter on Receivers and Administrators. Tom Robinson was one of two editors of the work, and chapters... Read more
Monday 15 January 2018
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Gazprom awarded $2bn in long-running SCC arbitration
Gazprom has secured a substantial award in its favour in a long-running and hard-fought SCC arbitration against Naftogaz. The dispute related to a long term gas supply contract. In a ruling handed down by the tribunal on 22 December 2017,... Read more
Tuesday 2 January 2018
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Naftogaz v Gazprom (SCC Arbitration)
The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce
Alan Gourgey KC
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Friday 22 December 2017
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Privy Council decision on delivery of deeds in escrow and pre-incorporation contacts.
Andrew Mold appeared for the successful Respondent in the recent Privy Council decision of Rolle Family & Company Ltd v Rolle [2017] UKPC 35. The case (on appeal from the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas) considered the subjects of... Read more
Wednesday 20 December 2017
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Rolle Family & Company Ltd v Rolle
The Judicial Committee of The Privy Council
Andrew Mold KC
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Wednesday 20 December 2017
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Three New Silks at Wilberforce Chambers
Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to announce Julian Greenhill, Tiffany Scott and Nikki Singla have been successful in their applications for silk. The appointments to Queen’s Counsel will be made at a ceremony to be held on Monday 26th February 2018... Read more
Tuesday 19 December 2017
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