In the case of Corbiere Limited v Xu , the Court ordered a defendant to surrender his passport until he had complied with a disclosure order requiring him to disclose the location of certain confidential information that he had obtained unlawfully. The...
Last week saw the final hearing of an application for permission to appeal in the long running ‘Holocaust fund’ case of Hamilton v Hamilton . The court’s judgment included interesting guidance for those who seek to adduce new evidence...
Hughes Paddison’s Head of Litigation, Rachel Stewart, represents the claimant (ARB) in a much publicised High Court case in which a father sued an IVF clinic for over £1 million, after a frozen embryo was thawed and implanted into his...
Hughes Paddison’s Head of Litigation, Rachel Stewart, represents the claimant in a much publicised High Court case in which a father is suing an IVF clinic for over £1 million, after a frozen embryo was thawed and implanted into his...
In the case of Marathon Asset Management LLP v Seddon, the trial judge stated that “ punishment and deterrence are not purposes for which damages for civil wrongs can be awarded in English law ”. In this case, the claimant was one of three...
Judgment was handed down this week in Heather Ilott’s battle in the Supreme Court involving her claim against her late mother’s Estate. Mrs Ilott had been disinherited and was doing battle with charities that her mother had chosen to be...
If you are owed money and the debtor sends a cheque stated to be in “full and final satisfaction” of the debt, you must proceed with caution. The temptation will obviously be to cash the cheque and pursue the balance, but can you do this? The...
A High Court judgment was handed down on Friday in favour of our client, the sister in the well publicised case of Hamilton -v- Hamilton. The case involved a brother and sister arguing about £3.2M of assets held offshore in a Liechtenstein Foundation,...
As of the 1 October 2015, the minimum level of debt that can trigger bankruptcy has risen from £750 to £5000. This is the first increase of the bankruptcy threshold since it was set 30 years ago. The new rules mean that you can no longer serve...
Consumer law has changed, with the new Consumer Rights Act (“CRA”) which came into force on 1st October 2015. The Act is exclusively about consumers doing business with traders, and will affect both consumers and businesses selling to consumers....
