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Company law, Commercial disputesMonday 13 January 2025

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 Supreme Court.

Mitchell and another (Joint Liquidators of MBI International & Partners Inc (In Liquidation)) v Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber and others

Clare Stanley KC and Jia Wei Lee are acting for the appellant, in this case “set to make a landmark decision concerning the fiduciary duties of a person affiliated with a business without legal duties”, as described by The Lawyer. This case looks at Sheikh Al Jaber’s actions before his company was put into insolvent liquidation. This case presents the opportunity for the Supreme Court to offer clarification into the interpretation of laws surrounding the nature of equitable duties, and appropriate remedies upon their disregard.

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