Judge rules for England’s Water Companies on Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR)

On 28 June 2024, Richard Smith J handed down judgment following the Stage 1 trial in Surrey Searches Limited...

Tribunal rules Merricks’ class action is partially time-barred

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has handed down judgment in Walter Hugh Merricks CBE v Mastercard Incorporated...

April-May 2024 Issue

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...

Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal dismisses $3bn freezing order appeal

The Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal has upheld the discharge of three freezing orders relating to assets...

Deutsche Bank wins Court of Appeal battle in contempt dispute

Deutsche Bank AG has prevailed in the latest phase of its long-running dispute with Monaco-based billionaire...

Northern Ireland Protocol - House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee

Tom Sharpe KC was invited to give evidence to the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee on 1 February...

Virgin obtains declarations in dispute with Alaska Airlines Inc.

Virgin Aviation Ltd v Alaska Airlines Inc. [2023] EWHC 322 (Comm) The Commercial Court handed down...

Sonia Tolaney KC and James Ruddell featured in The Lawyer’s Top 10 Appeals of 2023

We are pleased that Sonia Tolaney KC and James Ruddell are featured in one of The Lawyer’s “Top...

One Essex Court is Associate Sponsor of C5’s Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery Geneva 2023

One Essex Court is pleased to once again sponsor C5’s Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery Geneva...

Commercial Court judgment on the impact of the UK’s Russia sanctions regime

In her recent judgment in PJSC National Bank Trust v Mints, Cockerill J has considered a number of important...

Commercial Court rules that an arbitral order for specific performance, which is expressly subject to variation by the arbitral tribunal, is, nonetheless, an award within the meaning of the Arbitration Act

In YDU v (1) SAB and (2) BYH [2022] EWHC 3304 (Comm), the Claimant brought a claim for a declaration...