Insights

Articles

Co-ownership in the business context: the odiousness of survivorship in equity

Article by John Grocott-Barrett, 27th June 2024 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. The co-ownership of property is a question that vexes all private client lawyers. The recent judgment of Nugee LJ, a former member of... Read more

By John Grocott-Barrett
Friday 28 June 2024

News

Andrew Barnes appointed as Deputy Practice Director

Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to announce that Andrew Barnes has been appointed as Deputy Practice Director with immediate effect. Andrew will work in a client-facing and leadership role alongside Nicholas Luckman and the wider Practice Management Team.

Monday 24 June 2024

Articles

Sian v Halimedia: Insolvency vs Arbitration – Article by Ernest Leung cited in recent Privy Council decision

In Sian Participation Corp v Halimedia International Ltd [2024] UKPC 16, Lords Briggs and Hamblen considered the issue of whether insolvency proceedings should be stayed where the underlying debt was covered by an arbitration agreement. In an appeal from the BVI,... Read more

By Ernest Leung
Friday 21 June 2024

Recent Cases

Judgment handed down in The Tropical Zoo Ltd v The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow

Property

Martin Hutchings KC | Julian Greenhill KC | Daniel Petrides | Ernest Leung
Thursday 20 June 2024

Recent Cases

Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal hands down judgment in China Life Trustees v China Energy Reserve and Chemicals Group

Trusts, probate and estates: contentious, International / offshore

Jonathan Hilliard KC
Monday 17 June 2024

Recent Cases

Upper Tribunal decides tax and trusts appeal in respect of gilt strips

Tax, Trusts, probate and estates: contentious, Trusts, probate and estates: non-contentious

Jonathan Davey KC
Friday 14 June 2024

Articles

Trust me, I’m a dolphin!

Joseph Steadman has written an article in which he considers McHale v Dunlop, a recent claim for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty, arising from the loss of pension assets transferred into a SSAS and invested in an overseas investment... Read more

By Joseph Steadman
Thursday 13 June 2024

Recent Cases

Judgment handed down in Re BHS Group Ltd

Insolvency, Company law

Lexa Hilliard KC | Rachael Earle
Tuesday 11 June 2024

Publications

The Edward Nugee Memorial Lectures 2024

Michael Tennet KC | Paul Newman KC | Jonathan Hilliard KC | Edward Sawyer | David Pollard | Sebastian Allen | James Walmsley | Jennifer Seaman | James McCreath | Jonathan Chew | Ram Lakshman
June 2024

Articles

A hidden gem? The ‘sufficient connection with the jurisdiction’ test under s.423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 in the light of Suppipat v Narogdej [2023] EWHC 1988 (Comm)’

Tim Penny KC and Daniel Petrides have written an article for TL4’s FIRE Starters magazine entitled “A hidden gem? The ‘sufficient connection with the jurisdiction’ test under s.423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 in the light of Suppipat v Narogdej... Read more

By Tim Penny KC | Daniel Petrides
Monday 3 June 2024

Recent Cases

Commercial Court judgment handed down in Gordiy v Dorofejeva & another

Commercial disputes, Civil fraud and asset recovery, Company law

Tim Matthewson
Wednesday 29 May 2024

Articles

Eternal life, or dead and buried – which claims survive death?

Article by Lemuel Lucan-Wilson, 23rd May 2024 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. Lois McMaster Bujold once wrote “the dead cannot cry out for justice. It is the duty of the living to do so... Read more

By Lemuel Lucan-Wilson
Thursday 23 May 2024