8 award nominations for One Essex Court at Chambers UK Bar Awards 2024

Chambers UK have announced the nominees for this year’s Bar Awards, and One Essex Court is delighted...

One Essex Court sponsors Legal Business Commercial Litigation Summit 2024

One Essex Court is pleased to once again sponsor the Legal Business Commercial Litigation Summit, which...

June-July 2024 Issue

Award issued in claims against the Russian Federation for compensation for unlawfully expropriating Ukrainian real estate investments in Crimea

(1) Limited Liability Company Lugzor, (2) Limited Liability Company Libset, (3) Limited Liability Company...

One Essex Court to co-host LIDW23 event on joint ventures and disputes in oil and gas sector

One Essex Court is delighted to co-host an event during London International Disputes Week 2023 (LIDW23)...

Commercial court upholds jurisdiction in major fraud claim against Indian financial group

The Commercial Court has dismissed a jurisdiction challenge brought by three corporate defendants in the...

High Court dismisses economic torts and rectification claims arising from share transfer

Aziz v B & S Partnership Limited and Ors [2023] EWHC 658 (Ch) In 2009, the Claimant’s 25% shareholding...

Commercial Court delivers judgment in first ever cyber-attack claim

Mr Justice Foxton has delivered judgment in the first civil claim in the English courts arising out of...

Court of Appeal determines novel issue of costs of jurisdictional challenge

On 28 March 2023, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in Gorbachev v Guriev [2023] EWCA Civ 327....

Second preliminary issues trial in the SKAT litigation

On 24 March 2023, the Commercial Court handed down judgment following the second preliminary issues trial...

Silks Day 2023

Congratulations to Henry Forbes Smith KC and Marcos Dracos KC following today's Silk ceremony...

International Women’s Day 2023 #EmbraceEquity

International Women’s Day has inspired us to actively reach out to school aged young women to encourage...

Litigant represented pro bono establishes that FOS acted irrationally in refusing to consider new evidence

In a significant judgment recently handed down by the Administrative Court, the Court has concluded that...

Article on the appropriation of financial collateral under English law security financial collateral arrangements

Kenneth MacLean KC has written an article on the exercise of the remedy of appropriation over financial...

Court of Appeal upholds Lugano Jurisdiction judgment

In its decision in Kwok v UBS handed down today ([2023] EWCA Civ 222), the Court of Appeal (Lord Burnett...