ICLR Case Reports and Summaries - last 30 days ICLR Case Reports and Summaries ingested within the last 30 days. https://www.iclr.co.uk/documents/latest/days/30/rss?series=Bus+LR Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:09:19 GMT Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:09:19 GMT 60 Mark McLaren Class Representative Ltd v Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha — [2024] Bus LR 490 PRACTICE — Competition Appeal Tribunal — Case management — Collective proceedings order authorising class representative to continue collective proceedings on opt-out basis — Defendants’ solicitors writing to class members to warn of consequences of opt-out proceedings — Whether necessary implication of Rules that defendants prohibited from directly communicating with class members — Competition Appeal Tribunal Rules 2015 (SI 2015/1648) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2022021485/casereport_aee81249-3908-4cee-b2fb-b03cb320508a/html [2024] Bus LR 490 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 01:27:39 GMT Civil litigation Michael O’Higgins FX Class Representative Ltd v Barclays Bank plc — [2024] Bus LR 366 COMPETITION — Competition Appeal Tribunal — Collective proceedings order — Proposed class representatives bringing rival applications for collective proceedings order on opt-out basis — Whether Competition Appeal Tribunal having jurisdiction to consider certifying proceedings on opt-in basis — Relative importance of strength of claim in determining whether proceedings to be opt-in or opt-out — Application of test of practicability — Appropriate criteria to apply in selecting between rival class representatives — Competition Act 1998, s 47B — Competition Appeal Tribunal Rules 2015 (SI 2015/1648), r 79(3)(a)(b) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2022001686/casereport_12c59480-dcaf-4ff0-b8f1-22536e3b2d91/html [2024] Bus LR 366 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:37:34 GMT Civil litigation MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co SA v Stolt Tank Containers BV (The Flaminia) — [2024] Bus LR 311 SHIPPING — Limitation of liability — Charterer’s liability — Convention entitling entities within extended definition of “shipowner” to limit liability according to tonnage of ship for certain claims — Whether limitation applying to claim brought by actual owner in respect of losses suffered by owner itself — Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (c 21), s 185, Sch 7, arts 1.2, 2.1 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2022014092/casereport_6974ce86-00ee-4248-8630-91f073d6a9da/html [2024] Bus LR 311 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:37:38 GMT Commercial Banca Intesa Sanpaolo SpA v Comune di Venezia — [2024] Bus LR 228 CONFLICT OF LAWS — Contract — Capacity — Banks entering into English law governed swap transactions with Italian municipal authority — Judge holding transactions void because municipal authority lacked capacity under Italian law to enter into them — Whether appropriate for appellate court to interfere with judge’s findings of fact as to applicable principles of foreign law — Whether judge erred in holding municipal authority lacked capacity https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2022013813/casereport_ca8beb04-ffd1-4a91-87e0-f656d1df9b1b/html [2024] Bus LR 228 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:37:29 GMT Commercial FamilyMart China Holding Co Ltd v Ting Chuan (Cayman Islands) Holding Corpn — [2024] Bus LR 190 ARBITRATION — Stay of judicial proceedings — Arbitration agreement — Minority shareholder petitioning to wind up company on just and equitable ground — Majority shareholder applying to stay proceedings in reliance on arbitration agreement — Statute mandating grant of stay of legal proceedings in respect of any “matter” agreed to be referred to arbitration — Whether winding up petition constituting “legal proceedings” — Factors to be taken into account in determining whether proceedings in respect of “matter” to be referred to arbitration — Whether arbitral tribunal’s inability to make winding up order rendering agreement inoperative — Whether permissible to divide dispute between arbitrable and non-arbitrable issues and grant pro tanto stay — Foreign Arbitral Awards Enforcement Act (1997 Rev), s 4 — Companies Act (2018 Rev), ss 92, 95 — Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (1958), art II(3) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023005567/casereport_9356880a-0da5-4265-8f1f-94a288f2e787/html [2024] Bus LR 190 Tue, 5 Mar 2024 04:37:31 GMT Civil litigation Hotel Portfolio II UK Ltd v Ruhan — [2024] Bus LR 160 COMPANY — Director — Breach of fiduciary duty — Dishonest assistance — Director of claimant company in breach of fiduciary duty by acquiring claimant’s hotels in breach of self-dealing rule and making unauthorised profit on sale of hotels to third parties — Second defendant dishonestly assisting director — Whether claimant having separate causes of action against second defendant in relation to director’s acquisition of hotels and failure to account for profit — Whether breaches instead constituting single and uninterrupted course of conduct — Whether if breaches taken together claimant suffering loss for which second defendant liable https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2022000868/casereport_4879ed1c-6dc9-4b4e-b1fb-6cc0235d4e81/html [2024] Bus LR 160 Thu, 7 Mar 2024 14:34:51 GMT Trusts and Chancery Quadra Commodities SA v XL Insurance Company SE — [2024] Bus LR 435 INSURANCE — Insurable interest — Unascertained goods — Claimant entering into contract to purchase cargoes of grain in specified warehouses and paying percentage of purchase price against presentation of warehouse receipts — Seller co-mingling grain — Seller fraudulently pledging same grain to multiple buyers — Claimant seeking to recover loss caused by fraud under misappropriation clause in insurance policy — Whether goods corresponding in quantity and description to cargoes physically present at time warehouse receipts issued — Whether claimant having insurable interest — Correct test to be applied https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2022001097/casereport_dc63c554-c4d2-4603-bef7-5226403b382c/html [2024] Bus LR 435 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 01:27:35 GMT Commercial Lidl Great Britain Ltd v Closed Circuit Cooling Ltd (trading as 3CL) — [2024] Bus LR 475 BUILDING — Contract — Adjudication — Rule prohibiting payer commencing true value adjudication prior to payment of notified sum — Extent of rule — Whether limited to adjudication in same payment cycle as notified sum — Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (c 53), s 111 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023006816/casereport_5e99b649-9e8d-43fa-948a-dd23858cafcc/html [2024] Bus LR 475 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 01:27:41 GMT Commercial Ntzegkoutanis v Kimionis — [2024] Bus LR 339 COMPANY — Unfair prejudice — Petition — Unfair prejudice petition in part seeking relief in favour of company — Whether abuse of process to include in unfair prejudice action unauthorised derivative claim — Companies Act 2006 (c 46), s 994 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2022021664/casereport_78a651a1-296d-44fe-a64a-6fb1b98b2dda/html [2024] Bus LR 339 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:37:40 GMT Commercial Competition and Markets Authority v Apple Inc — [2024] Bus LR 289 COMPETITION — Investigatory powers — Market investigations — Competition and Markets authority publishing market study notice but going on to decide not to make market investigation reference — Authority subsequently revisiting decision and deciding to exercise discretion to make standalone reference — Whether time limits applying because reference “in relation to the matter” that was specified in market study notice — Enterprise Act 2002 (c 40), ss 130A, 131(1), 131A, 131B https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023002457/casereport_f1ad24ab-d604-431b-83a1-5414b4facd33/html [2024] Bus LR 289 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:37:33 GMT Commercial Lifestyle Equities CV v Amazon UK Services Ltd — [2024] Bus LR 532 TRADE MARK — Infringement — Use — Right holder registering UK and EU trade marks for branded goods — Advertisements and offers for sale of identical US-branded goods bearing identical marks accessible to consumers in UK and EU via defendants’ US e-commerce website — Whether advertisements and offers for sale targeted at average UK consumers — Proper approach to assessment of targeting — Trade Marks Act1994 (c 26), s 10(1) — Parliament and Council Regulation (EU) No 2017/1001, art 9(2)(a) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2021000321/casereport_2021000321_507c675b-5c48-47c8-a1cf-6366114beab5/html [2024] Bus LR 532 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 01:27:32 GMT IP and Media easyGroup Ltd v Easy Live (Services) Ltd — [2024] Bus LR 141 PASSING OFF — Ingredients of tort — Damage — Claimant with licensing business bringing passing off action against defendant for use of its sign — Whether deprivation of licence fee payable by defendant and/or impact of defendant’s actions on licensing business satisfying damage ingredient of tort https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2022021643/casereport_758f6467-80d8-46b5-9fda-73330a2b94d5/html [2024] Bus LR 141 Fri, 1 Mar 2024 00:37:31 GMT IP and Media