Ocado Group Plc v Raymond McKeeve [2022] EWHC 2079 (Ch) On 3 August 2022, Mr Justice Adam Johnson held that Raymond McKeeve – a leading private equity lawyer – was guilty of criminal contempt of court. By destroying documents in response to a Search Order and thwarting the purpose of that order, Mr McKeeve intentionally interfered with the administration of justice. The facts of this case...
Matthew Hoyle has written a note for Practical Law on the practice of pleading and proving foreign law in the English courts. The note covers a variety of important issues for commercial practitioners, including the meaning and scope of a “foreign law”, the various methods of proving such laws (including by expert evidence) and the approach of the English courts in applying foreign law....
In a further phase in the long running Deutsche Bank (DB)/Sebastian Holdings Inc (SHI) litigation, Moulder J has now committed SHI’s former director, Mr Alexander Vik, to prison for 20-months, suspended on extensive conditions of future compliance. Earlier in the year, following a heavily contested multi-week committal application, Moulder J found DB had shown beyond all reasonable doubt that...
The Commercial Court handed down its judgment on 27 July 2022 on a £366 million claim for damages arising from a failed bid to acquire the iconic exhibition centre, Olympia London. The Court awarded the Claimant “loss of a chance” damages of £14.98 million. The judgment of Knowles J follows a four-week trial in October–November 2021. The trial featured extensive expert...