Civil fraud and asset recovery, Commercial disputes, Insolvency, PropertyMonday 6 January 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 Security v Al Rajaan and others
Tim Penny KC, Emily McKechnie and John Grocott-Barrett are acting for the 39th and 40th defendants, Aerium Finance Limited and Ely Michel Ruimy, in this “mammoth multi-party £1.2bn fraud claim“, as described by The Lawyer.
Credit Suisse Virtuoso SICAV-SIF and another v SoftBank, Joint Liquidators of Greensill Ltd, and others
Daniel Lewis is acting for the seventh defendant, the Greensill Liquidators, in this $440m claim, a figure which Credit Suisse claims is owed to its customers by Katerra, a company funded by Greensill.
38 Curzon Lease (Fantasio) v Curzon Cinemas and Curzon Restaurant & Bar
Curzon Cinema and its landlord, Fantasio, are engaged in a significant real estate dispute concerning a proposed multimillion-pound refurbishment which will unite the cinema and adjoining restaurant. Meanwhile, Curzon wishes to extend its 90-year tenure at the premises.
Jonathan Seitler KC, Benjamin Faulkner and Francesca Mitchell are acting for the claimant, and Joanne Wicks KC and Emer Murphy are acting for the defendant.
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Articles
Tiffany Scott KC has written an article analysing the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Fairmont Property Developers v Venus Bridging Ltd. In the article Tiffany poses the question: When will the court order that a borrower be given conduct of... Read more
By Tiffany Scott KC
Monday 2 March 2026
Articles
In this article Philippe Kuhn analyses the recent decision in Gilbert v Broadoak concerning novel jurisdictional arguments about gateways for service out in the context of worldwide freezing orders against Chabra respondents.
By Philippe Kuhn
Thursday 26 February 2026
Articles
Daniel Jukes has written an article on the recent judgment in LLC Eurochem North-West-2 v Techimont SPA & others [2026]. The key issue in this case turned on a question of statutory construction, namely whether pursuant to section 42 of... Read more
By Daniel Jukes
Wednesday 18 February 2026
External Conferences
Thursday 23 April 2026 | 12.15pm
Foot Anstey, Southampton
Free to attend for PLA members
Speakers:
Jonathan Seitler KC | Mark Galtrey | Naomi Kilcoyne
