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• Vneshprombank LLC v Bedzhamov [2019] EWCA Civ 1992
  Determination by the Court of Appeal of issues relating to the role of the court in freezing injunction cases, with a lavish lifestyle and high-level of legal costs.
• Al-Nesnas v Al-Najar [2018] EWCA Civ 1619
  Summary judgement in a case involving investment in property ventures, following fraudulent misrepresentations and misappropriation.
• Neil v Henderson [2018] EWHC 90 (Ch)
  Contempt of court proceedings relating to the use of forged documents, and a forged signature on a witness statement.
• Petroleum Co of Trinidad & Tobago Ltd v Ryan [2017] UKPC 30
  Claims for environmental damage from a capped oil well, where the Privy Council considered the appropriate approach to causation on policy grounds.
• Dell Emerging Markets v IB Maroc.com SA [2017] EWHC 2397 (Comm)
  Jurisdiction to grant an anti-suit injunction in a claim by a non-party to the contract, seeking a quasi-contractual injunction to enforce a jurisdiction clause.
• Vincent Tchenguiz v Grant Thornton & ors [2016] EWHC 3727 (Comm)
  Summary judgement where the defendants could rely on an earlier settlement agreement.
• Barnsley v Noble [2016] EWCA Civ 799
  Court of Appeal considering the proper interpretation of an exoneration clause, relieving trustees under will trusts from personal liability for breaches of duty.
• Rabiu & ors v Marlbray Ltd  [2016] EWCA Civ 476
  Contract enforceable in a contract naming two purchasers against the one that signed. The Court of Appeal also considered the right to forfeit a deposit paid under a void contract.
• Creative Foundation v Dreamland Leisure Ltd  [2015] Ch 253Entitlement of tenant to remove a Banksy  from an external wall, relying on repairing covenant.
• Ramsay v Love [2015] EWHC 65 (Ch)
  Guarantee of leased signed with a ‘Ghost Writer’.  Extent of authority, and doctrine of estoppel by negligence.
• Zarbafi v Zarbafi [2014] EWCA Civ 1267 / [2014] 1 WLR 4122 
  Court of Appeal consider standing as litigation friend in the context of conflicting interests, and protection by injunction where threats to vulnerable adult.
• Barnsley v Noble [2014] EWHC 2657 (Ch) 
  Requirements for enforceable oral agreement; extent of scope of exoneration clause in a will where self-dealing by executor.
• Group Seven Ltd v Allied Investment Corp Ltd [2014] 1 WLR 735 
  Freezing injunction does not extend to assets belonging to a company owned or controlled by defendant.
• Serious Organised Crime Agency v Szepietowski [2013] UKSC 65 [2014] AC 338 
  Remedy of marshalling not available to second mortgagee where the common property did not secure a debt owed by the mortgagor.
• Mellor v Partridge [2013] EWCA CIV 477 
  Court of Appeal considered the constituents of fraudulent misrepresentation claim relating to the sale of a business, as well as the application of the reflective less doctrine to quantum and difficult causation issues
• Fanfare Properties Ltd v Grafton Estate No.2 LP (Nominee One) Ltd [2012] EWHC 2918 (Ch) 
  Represented adjoining landowner enforcing rights under a deal threatened by a major Mayfair office development.
• Ibrahim v Barclays Bank Plc [2012] EWCA Civ 640 [2013] Ch 400
  Court of Appeal considered subrogation in the context of a letter of credit, and analysed the effect in law of the disclosure of the draft by the bank issuing the letter of credit.
• Baturina v Times Newspapers Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 308
  Clarifies the law relating to innuendo in defamation arising in the contect of overseas sales of an English newspaper.
• Innovatis Investment Fund Ltd v Ejder Group Ltd [2010] EWHC 1851 (Norris J.)
  Obtained judgment at trial for over US$4m under a disputed ‘repo’ agreement concerning a Lehman Brothers Medium Term Basket Note with a face value of US$7m. This was the first reported decision in which the High Court has considered the legal nature of a securities repurchase agreement. The case also concerned issues of an agent’s liability under a contract in the context of securities trading.
• Good Harvest Partnership v Centaur Services Ltd [2010] NPL 22
  Whether original guarantor’s guarantee of assignee is enforceable under 1995 Covenants Act.
• Transview Properties Ltd v City Site Properties Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 1255
  Admissibility of fresh evidence on appeal; rectification of override liabilities under a sale contract.
• Pocket Kings Ltd v Safenames Ltd & Kentucky [2009] EWHC 2529 (Ch)
  US state of Kentucky not a state for the purposes of the State Immunity Act 1978.
• Invertec Ltd v de Mol Holdings BV [2009] EWHC 2471 (Ch)
  Liability for fraudulent warranties in share sale agreement, and extent of liability for post-completion losses including loss of opportunity claims.
• Welford v EDF Energy Networks (2007) 24 EG 170
  Court of Appeal upheld finding of Lands Tribunal that compensation for loss of profits not too remote in law in compulsory purchase and similar cases where investment in land made in anticipation of starting a business, even though that business did not trade.
• Bexley London Borough Council v Maison Maurice Ltd [2007] 2 EG 124
  Local authority precluded by estoppels from denying access to public highway.
• Capita Trust (Channel Islands) Ltd v Chatham Maritime J3 Devps Ltd [2007] 2 L & TR 2
  Mandatory injunction requiring grant of underlease under estate management obligations of lease.
• Halpern v Halpern [2006] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 83
  Conflict of laws, application of Shamil Bank of Bahrain EC v Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd & Ors [2004] 1 WLR 1784 to Jewish law and to a compromise agreement embodied in an arbitration award.

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