Results: 26

• Seedo v El Gamal

  24 Jun 2022 [2022] EWHC 1712 (Ch), Ch D

  30 Mar 2023 [2023] EWCA Civ 330; [2023] Ch 473; [2023] 3 WLR 505; [2023] 4 All ER 903; [2023] WLR(D) 165, CA (Bean, Nugee, Birss LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 7.
  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Postponement of limitation period — Fraud
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  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Postponement of limitation period — Fraud — Claim in fraudulent misrepresentation on basis defendant deceiving claimant into entering transaction by telling two lies — Whether claim time-barred — Whether time beginning to run when claimant discovering first lie — Limitation Act 1980 (c 58), s 32(1)(a)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Euro Securities & Finance Ltd v Barrett

  11 Jan 2023 [2023] EWHC 51 (Ch); [2023] Ch 279; [2023] 2 WLR 1285; [2023] WLR(D) 103, Ch D (Judge Tindal sitting as a High Court judge)

  DEED — Execution — Validity
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  DEED — Execution — Validity — Instrument validly executed as deed only if signed “in the presence of a witness” who “attested” signature — Nature of action required by witness for valid attestation — Whether witness’s single signature validly attesting multiple party signatures — Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 (c 34), s 1(3)(a)(i)

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• Darwall v Dartmoor National Park Authority

  13 Jan 2023 [2023] EWHC 35 (Ch); [2023] Ch 141; [2023] 2 WLR 877; [2023] WLR(D) 21, Ch D (Sir Julian Flaux C)

  31 Jul 2023 [2023] EWCA Civ 927; [2024] Ch 107; [2024] 2 WLR 397; [2023] WLR(D) 338, CA (Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, Underhill, Newey LJJ)

  20 Dec 2023 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given

  21 May 2025 [2025] UKSC 20; [2025] AC 1292; [2025] 2 WLR 1075; [2025] WLR(D) 276, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Sales, Lord Stephens, Lady Rose, Lady Simler JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 7.
  COMMONS — Common land — Right to roam

  COMMONS — Common land — Right of access

  STATUTE — Construction — Hansard
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  COMMONS — Common land — Right to roam — Statute giving public “right of access” to areas of Dartmoor Commons on foot and on horseback for purpose of “open-air recreation” — Whether conferring right to wild camp — Whether wild camping included in open-air recreation or ancillary to right of access — Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 (c xxxvii), s 10(1)

  COMMONS — Common land — Right of access — Statute giving public right of access to areas of Dartmoor Commons on foot and on horseback for purpose of “open-air recreation” — Whether conferring right to wild camp — Whether wild camping included in open-air recreation — Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 (c xxxvii), s 10(1)

  STATUTE — Construction — Hansard — Use of statements in Parliament to identify background, purpose or mischief at which Act aimed — Whether admissible other than pursuant to rule in Pepper v Hart

  STATUTE — Construction — Hansard — Use of statements in Hansard to identify background and purpose of Act or mischief at which Act aimed — Whether permissible if Act neither ambiguous, nor obscure, nor leading to absurdity

  7 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• James v Scudamore

  03 May 2023 [2023] EWHC 996 (Ch); [2023] Ch 391; [2023] 3 WLR 391; [2023] WLR(D) 244, Ch D (Judge Paul Matthews sitting as a High Court judge)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; most recently considered: 2023. Subsequent citations: 4.
  WILL — Validity — Laches
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  WILL — Validity — Laches — Claim for revocation of probate brought nine years after probate granted — Whether claim barred by laches — Wills Act 1837 (7 Will 4 & 1 Vict c 26), s 9

  9 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Bacci v Green

  07 Mar 2022 [2022] EWHC 486 (Ch); [2022] BPIR 641, Ch D (Andrew Hochhauser QC sitting as a deputy High Court judge)

  25 Oct 2022 [2022] EWCA Civ 1393; [2023] Ch 201; [2023] 2 WLR 681; [2022] WLR(D) 423, CA (Newey, Males, Arnold LJJ)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; most recently considered: 2023. Subsequent citations: 11.
  EXECUTION — Third party debt proceedings — Jurisdiction to make order

  JUDGMENT — Enforcement — Recovery from pension fund
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  EXECUTION — Third party debt proceedings — Jurisdiction to make order

  JUDGMENT — Enforcement — Recovery from pension fund — Judgment debtor having power to draw down on pension by taking lifetime allowance excess lump sum if first revoking enhanced protection — Whether court empowered to order judgment debtor to delegate to judgment creditors’ solicitors power to revoke enhanced protection and contigent power to take lump sum — Senior Courts Act 1981 (c 54), s 37(1)

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• United Utilities Water Ltd v Manchester Ship Canal Co Ltd (United Utilities Water Ltd v Manchester Ship Canal Co Ltd)

  15 Jun 2021 [2021] EWHC 1571 (Ch); [2021] 1 WLR 5871; [2021] WLR(D) 343, Ch D (Fancourt J)

  27 Jun 2022 [2022] EWCA Civ 852; [2023] Ch 1; [2022] 3 WLR 1193; [2023] 1 All ER 633; [2022] WLR(D) 276, CA (Asplin, Arnold, Nugee LJJ)

  01 Nov 2022 (appn all) [2023] 1 WLR 592, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Kitchin, Lord Richards JJSC)

  02 Jul 2024 [2024] UKSC 22; [2025] AC 761; [2024] 3 WLR 356; [2024] 4 All ER 825, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Burrows, Lord Stephens, Lady Rose, Lord Richards JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; most recently considered: 2024. Subsequent citations: 15.
  WATER — Sewerage — Discharge
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  WATER — Sewerage — Discharge — Sewerage undertaker having implied statutory right to discharge surface water and treated effluent into canal — Unauthorised discharge of untreated effluent occurring following heavy rainfall and overload of sewerage system — Whether canal owner having private right of action against sewerage undertaker — Whether owner only having statutory remedy — Water Industry Act 1991 (c 56), ss 94, 117(5), 186(3)

  WATER — Sewerage — Discharge — Agreement between canal owner and sewerage undertaker giving sewerage undertaker right to discharge water from its outfalls into canal — Right terminable on notice from canal owner — Whether agreement ultra vires and void — Whether sewerage undertaker having continuing statutory right to discharge following termination of agreement — Public Health Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict c 55), ss 16, 18 — Public Health Act 1936 (26 Geo 5 & 1 Edw 8, c 49), ss 15, 22

  WATER — Sewerage — Discharge — Untreated effluent discharged into canal from sewerage undertaker’s outfalls following heavy rainfall — Whether canal owner having private right of action against sewerage undertaker — Whether such action inconsistent with statutory scheme for enforcement of sewerage undertakers’ duties — Water Industry Act 1991 (c 56), ss 117(5), 186(3)

  6 Case(s) considered

  3 Statutes considered

• Bilta (UK) Ltd (in liquidation) v Tradition Financial Services Ltd (Bilta (UK) Ltd v SVS Securities plc)

  31 Mar 2022 [2022] EWHC 723 (Ch), Ch D (Marcus Smith J)

  10 Feb 2023 [2023] EWCA Civ 112; [2023] Ch 343; [2023] 2 WLR 1160; [2023] 1 BCLC 667; [2023] WLR(D) 75, CA (Lewison, Stuart-Smith, Falk LJJ)

  24 Jul 2023 (appn all) [2023] 1 WLR 2582, SC(E) ( Lord Briggs, Lord Kitchin, Lord Hamblen JJSC)

  19 Mar 2025 [2025] UKSC 18; [2025] 2 WLR 1015; [2025] 3 All ER 875; [2025] WLR(D) 255, SC(E) (Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Briggs, Lord Hamblen, Lord Burrows, Lord Richards JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 19.
  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Fraud — Date of knowledge

  INSOLVENCY — Winding up — Fraudulent trading

  COMPANY — Register — Restoration to register
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  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Fraud — Date of knowledge

  INSOLVENCY — Winding up — Fraudulent trading — Whether person capable of being party to fraudulent trading in business of company if not having controlling or managerial function within company — Insolvency Act 1986 (c 45), s 213

  COMPANY — Register — Restoration to register — Company dissolved but later restored to register — Company unable to pursue claim while dissolved — Whether company’s claim time-barred — Whether company’s directors at date of dissolution deemed to have remained in office until restoration — Companies Act 2006 (c 46), s 1032

  COMPANY — Register — Restoration to register — Company dissolved but later restored to register — Company unable to pursue claim in dishonest assistance while dissolved — Whether company’s claim time-barred — Whether company could with reasonable diligence have discovered fraud — Whether company deemed to have had no directors between dissolution and restoration — Limitation Act 1980 (c 58), s 32 — Companies Act 2006 (c 46), s 1032

  INSOLVENCY — Winding up — Fraudulent trading — Person with no controlling or managerial function within company — Whether capable of being party to carrying on of company’s business for fraudulent purpose — Insolvency Act 1986 (c 45), s 213

  COMPANY — Register — Restoration to register — Company dissolved but later restored to register wishing to pursue claim in dishonest assistance — Whether company deemed to have had no directors between dissolution and restoration — Whether company’s claim time-barred — Whether company could with reasonable diligence have discovered fraud — Limitation Act 1980 (c 58), s 32 — Companies Act 2006 (c 46), s 1032

  13 Case(s) considered

  3 Statutes considered
• Gemalto Holding BV v Infineon Technologies AG

  28 Jan 2022 [2022] EWHC 156 (Ch), Ch D (Bacon J)

  10 Jun 2022 [2022] EWCA Civ 782; [2023] Ch 169; [2022] 3 WLR 1141; [2023] 1 All ER 418; [2023] 1 All ER (Comm) 477; [2022] WLR(D) 268, CA (Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, Green, Birss LJJ)

  13 Dec 2022 (appn dis) [2023] 1 WLR 662, SC(E) ( Lord Reed PSC, Lady Rose, Lord Richards JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; most recently considered: 2023. Subsequent citations: 31.
  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Postponement of limitation period — Deliberate concealment
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  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Postponement of limitation period — Deliberate concealment — Claim for damages arising from unlawful cartel in which defendants participated — Whether time-barred — Whether time beginning to run when claimants knew they had worthwhile claim or when claimants had knowledge allowing them to plead claim that would not be struck out — Limitation Act 1980 (c 58), s 32(1)(b)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Mitchell v Revenue and Customs Comrs

  30 Oct 2019 [2020] UKFTT 102 (TC), FTT (Judge Barbara Mosedale)

  08 Oct 2021 [2021] UKUT 250 (TCC), UT (UT Judges Jonathan Richards and Jonathan Cannan)

  10 Mar 2023 [2023] EWCA Civ 261; [2023] Ch 251; [2023] 2 WLR 1201; [2023] STC 603; [2023] WLR(D) 118; The Times, 24 April 2023, CA (Arnold, Carr, Whipple LJJ)

  25 Jul 2023 (appn dis) [2023] 1 WLR 2668, SC(E) (Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Sales, Lady Rose JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  REVENUE — Confidentiality — Disclosure
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  REVENUE — Confidentiality — Disclosure — Taxpayers’ appeals to First-tier Tribunal heard together — Revenue wishing to grant first taxpayer’s request for disclosure of otherwise confidential documents relating to tax affairs of second taxpayer — Whether revenue empowered to make disclosure sought — Whether tribunal’s direction required — Whether tribunal having jurisdiction to adjudicate exercise by revenue of powers to make such disclosure — Whether tribunal empowered to direct revenue to make such disclosure — Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c 11), s 18 — Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Tax Chamber) Rules 2009 (SI 2009/273), rr 5, 15

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Kireeva v Bedzhamov (Vneshprombank LLC v Bedzhamov)

  13 Aug 2021 [2021] EWHC 2281 (Ch), Ch D (Snowden J)

  21 Jan 2022 [2022] EWCA Civ 35; [2023] Ch 45; [2022] 3 WLR 1253; [2022] 4 All ER 192; [2022] 2 All ER (Comm) 212; [2022] WLR(D) 37, CA (Newey, Arnold, Stuart-Smith LJJ)

  21 Dec 2022 (appn all) [2023] 1 WLR 803, SC(E) (Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Kitchin, Lord Sales JJSC)

  20 Nov 2024 [2024] UKSC 39; [2025] AC 812; [2024] 3 WLR 1010; [2025] 2 All ER 949; [2025] 2 All ER (Comm) 775; [2024] WLR(D) 506, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Briggs, Lady Rose, Lord Richards JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; most recently considered: 2025. Subsequent citations: 35.
  INSOLVENCY — Cross-border insolvency — Recognition

  BANKRUPTCY — Trustee in bankruptcy — Recognition of foreign proceedings
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  INSOLVENCY — Cross-border insolvency — Recognition

  BANKRUPTCY — Trustee in bankruptcy — Recognition of foreign proceedings — Russian court making bankruptcy order in respect of debtor domiciled in England and appointing trustee in bankruptcy — High Court granting recognition at common law of Russian bankruptcy and of trustee’s appointment — Whether court having power at common law to make order vesting debtor’s English immovable property in trustee — Whether contrary to immovables rule

  BANKRUPTCY — Trustee in bankruptcy — Recognition of foreign proceedings

  BANKRUPTCY — Trustee in bankruptcy — Recognition of foreign proceedings — Russian court making bankruptcy order in respect of debtor domiciled in England and appointing trustee in bankruptcy — High Court granting recognition at common law of Russian bankruptcy and of trustee’s appointment — Whether court having power at common law to make order vesting debtor’s English immovable property in trustee — Whether contrary to immovables rule — Whether principle of modified universalism allowing order to be made

  14 Case(s) considered