Business Law Updates

In a case which vividly revealed that the National Crime Agency (NCA) is on the alert to stifle the flow of dirty money through Britain, the Court of Appeal has opened the way for the

The Court of Appeal has narrowly upheld an asset freezing injunction issued against the former chief executive officer (CEO) of a Stock Exchange-listed company who vehemently denies involvement in alleged $135 million frauds. The Isle

In a warning to all that the fine print of insurance policies is well worth reading, a furniture company that suffered losses in excess of £700,000 in an arson attack on its warehouse will go

In discouraging an excessively formalistic approach to the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in the UK, the Court of Appeal has rejected a highly technical bid by two businessmen to shelter from liabilities totalling more

In a significant decision for the shipping industry, the High Court has ruled that a vessel owner’s insistence that it had the right to refuse to sail through the Gulf of Aden – where piracy

When a shopper bought a laptop computer on credit from a branch of PC World in 1998, he could not have imagined that the simple transaction would trigger a test case which, 15 years later,

A property development company which was plunged into financial crisis by a catalogue of local authority maladministration will receive just £50,000 in compensation despite the Local Authority Ombudsman’s recommendation that it should be paid five

An international trading relationship that ‘got off to a bad start’ continued in the same vein with disputes over money, the arrest of a vessel at an Iranian port and, after much contractual wrangling, a

A highly successful entrepreneur who incurred a Capital Gains Tax (CGT) liability in excess of £760,000 on the sale of shares in his company has failed to convince the Court of Appeal that an accountancy

A company that invested more than £60 million in the port of Great Yarmouth over a six-year period, greatly boosting its income, has nevertheless failed in a High Court bid to take over as its