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Insolvency & Restructuring Chambers of the Year at 2021 TRI Awards

We are delighted to have won Insolvency & Restructuring Chambers of the Year at last week’s TRI (Turnaround, Restructuring & Insolvency) Awards. This follows a headline year for our insolvency team and is the third year in a row that... Read more

Tuesday 14 December 2021

Articles

Summarily judging fraud: Bringing claims to an early close

Tuesday 14 December 2021

Articles

Chancery barrister and mathematician: Arthur Cayley (1821-1895)

To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Emily Campbell The Chancery Bar has a long history of mathematician barristers, some of them famous. For a period, there was a tradition that the “Senior... Read more

By Emily Campbell TEP
Tuesday 14 December 2021

News

Dismissal of multi-billion dollar claim in energy dispute

An award was issued this week in relation to claims in an LCIA arbitration seeking damages in a joint venture dispute concerning oil and gas fields in the Middle East. The Claimants sought damages initially of $3.5bn, subsequently reduced to... Read more

Friday 10 December 2021

News

New Title: Connected and Associated: Insolvency and Pensions Law

We are delighted to announce that David Pollard‘s new book: Connected and Associated: Insolvency and Pensions Law has just been published by Bloomsbury Professional. It discusses, in detail, the meaning and scope of the ‘connected’, ‘associated’ and ‘control’ tests used... Read more

Thursday 9 December 2021

Publications

Connected and Associated: Insolvency and Pensions Law

David Pollard
December 2021

Recent Cases

The Libyan Investment Authority v Credit Suisse and others [2021] EWHC 2684 (Comm)

Commercial disputes, Banking and financial services, Civil fraud and asset recovery

Alan Gourgey KC | Anna Littler
Wednesday 8 December 2021

Articles

The Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill: Part 2 – what is happening in Parliament?

To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Sir Paul Morgan. This is my second article on the Commercial Rents (Coronavirus) Bill. As is well known, the Bill provides for a statutory arbitration where the arbitrator... Read more

By Sir Paul Morgan
Monday 6 December 2021

News

Too many hats, not enough time and the wrong people – the difficulties of Smith v Michelmores Trust Corporation

To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Lemuel Lucan-Wilson The recent case of Smith v Michelmores Trust Corporation [2021] EWHC 1425 (Ch) is a timely reminder for trustees of the need to critically... Read more

Thursday 2 December 2021

Articles

Too many hats, not enough time and the wrong people – the difficulties of Smith v Michelmores Trust Corporation

Thursday 2 December 2021

Recent Cases

In the matter of the Mitchells & Butlers Pension Plan [2021] EWHC 3017 (Ch)

High Court of Justice

Friday 26 November 2021

News

Mitchells & Butlers Pension Plan: Successful Rectification of Plan Increase Rules

Michael Tennet QC, Edward Sawyer and Jonathan Chew (instructed by Gowling WLG led by Ian Gordon and Charlotte Scholes) acted for the successful trustee of the Mitchells & Butlers Pension Plan on a series of rectification and other claims, following... Read more

Friday 26 November 2021