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New Authority on Freezing Orders
On 19.11.19 the Court of Appeal delivered judgement in the case of Vneshprobank LLC v Georgy Ivanovich Bedzhamov and others [2019] EWCA Civ 1992 which has set out the key principles to be applied when an individual who is subject to a freezing order applies for reasonable living expenses to be more...
6 Feb 2019 12:14
Worldwide Freezing Orders: disarming a nuclear weaponA “nuclear weapon” Described by the Courts as a litigant’s “nuclear weapon”, Worldwide Freezing Orders or freezing injunctions are extremely powerful remedies that a party can use to prevent their opponent from disposing of or dealing with assets or putting them out of reach of enforcement of a more...
The perils of non-disclosure: Fundo Soberano de Angola v dos Santos [2018] EWHC 2199 (Comm)
The perils of non-disclosure: Fundo Soberano de Angola v dos Santos [2018] EWHC 2199 (Comm) Overview In a scorching judgment handed down on 16 August 2018, Popplewell J discharged a US$3 billion worldwide freezing order granted on a without notice to the sovereign wealth fund of Angola against the more...
PACE POLANSKI
KHRAPUNOV V. JSC BTA BANK [2018] EWCA 819 In 2005 the House of Lords, by a bare majority, ruled that a claimant who was not prepared to come to England to give evidence at his defamation trial because he feared extradition to another country if he did, could be allowed to give his evidence via a more...
21 Mar 2018 12:57
JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov [2018] UKSC 19JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov [2018] UKSC 19 (Lords Mance, Sumption, Hodge, Lloyd-Jones and Briggs) is an important judgment in the fields of conspiracy, contempt and conflict of laws. In particular: · Lords Sumption and Lloyd-Jones provide an illuminating overview of the economic torts in more...
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