04/25/2023
The Macfarlanes team acting for the successful respondent to the appeal included partners Piers Barclay and Charles Lloyd, senior counsel Paul Hardwick and senior associate Sarah-Louise Fernandez.
04/25/2023
The Court found that non-payment of hire amounted to a deduction from hire if the vessel was allegedly off hire at the instalment date
04/21/2023
This decision is relevant to both shareholders and Cayman Islands companies involved in take-private transactions.
04/21/2023
At first blush, this seems like an entirely usual fact pattern and the relief uncontentious.
04/19/2023
The English law case is not binding on the Jersey courts and the language of the English legislation is different from the Security Law.
04/19/2023
In a recent case, the account holder brought a private law action against the bank to establish that the monies were not the proceeds of criminal conduct, allowing the business to deal with the property with the protection of a court order.
04/14/2023
It was the Plaintiff's case that the dispute fell outside of the scope of the arbitration agreement
04/14/2023
A lamp manufacturer claimed that a showcase light fixture sold by Montblanc had infringed its copyright.
04/06/2023
By the second stage of the arbitration, the Thai law experts on a closer review of Thai laws, agreed that compound interest was only recoverable in respect of loan agreements.
04/04/2023
Charan also brought claims for rescissions relating to the family shares in Choiceclassic Ltd and various other agreements previously made.
03/30/2023
Although every case is different, and needs to be considered on its own facts, some questions reoccur repeatedly.
03/30/2023
The case demonstrates Guernsey common law-making as being influenced, but not bound by, English case law whilst looking to the case law of leading Commonwealth jurisdictions for persuasive guidance.
03/30/2023
The German Patent Act stipulates that revocation claims are only admissible in Germany if the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) or the European Patent Office (EPO) have formally "concluded" their granting procedures.
03/29/2023
The UK Supreme Court has held (85-page / 564KB PDF) that it is necessary for Ukraine’s defence against non-repayment of the loan
03/27/2023
The Petitioners sought the Grand Court’s appraisal of the fair value of their shares pursuant to section 238 of the Companies Act.
03/13/2023
By the time the brothers were released from imprisonment, Henry McCollum had spent longer on Death Row than any other North Carolina prisoner.
03/09/2023
The guidance has been issued in the run-up to the Moneyval inspection of Jersey’s financial services regulatory apparatus, which is due to begin later in 2023.
03/07/2023
The decisions of the English courts are not binding on these jurisdictions
03/06/2023
There is optimism within the Cayman Islands legal and insolvency community that recognition of and assistance to a restructuring officer will be forthcoming from the HK Court.
03/03/2023
The report considers the evidence heard by the Chairman during the oral hearings