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• Contract Wording Leads to $12.5 Million Payout

  • Posted3 February 2015

  Millions can hang on the precise wording of a contract. Just how important this can be was illustrated in a recent case in which an agreement in respect of a...

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• Bias Apparent, Not Real, Rules Court of Appeal

  • Posted14 January 2015

  Just because a court ruling seems harsh does not mean that the judge making it was biased, as is illustrated by a decision by the Court of Appeal that a...

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• Unlawful Intent Does Not Prevent Recovery of Debt

  • Posted2 January 2015

  Although, as a general rule, an illegal contract is unenforceable, a City broker who offered to supply insider information to a friend for £620,000 but then reneged on the promise...

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• Not All Mistakes Are Mistakes

  • Posted12 December 2014

  It is fairly widely known that in a legal dispute some documents can be ‘privileged’, which means that they cannot be used in evidence. Normally, communications between a solicitor and...

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• Company Caught in Takeover Debacle Wins Its Money Back

  • Posted2 December 2014

  A company that paid more than £17 million too much for another company’s shares – due to inaccuracies in the latter’s accounts – will get most of that money back...

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• Foreign Director Can’t Escape English Jurisdiction

  • Posted13 November 2014

  In a ruling which powerfully confirmed the extra-territorial reach of the English courts, the Court of Appeal has opened the way for civil proceedings for contempt of court to be...

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