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Area of Law: Jamie Randall
The Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in Lorenz v Caruana [2025] EWCA Civ 606, overturning the decision to grant summary judgment against the Claimant’s claim that half of his brother’s residuary estate was held on secret trust for the Claimant and his two siblings. The Defendant argued that the contemporaneous documents established that the deceased’s intention was to give his estate outright to her in order to avoid inheritance tax and that the claim therefore had no prospect of success. The Court of Appeal noted, however, that the contemporaneous documents did not speak with one voice and accepted that an intention to avoid inheritance tax does not inevitably mean that the deceased cannot have intended to impose an enforceable obligation on the Defendant. The Court considered that there was a real prospect of further evidence being available at trial that would support the Claimant’s case, particularly in light of the limited evidence given by the Defendant as to the instructions given to her by the Deceased. The decision is a reminder that it is only in rare cases that summary judgment will be granted where there are disputed issues of fact, particularly where what lies at the heart of the claim is the content of oral discussions.
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The Singapore International Commercial Court (International Judge Bergin) has today handed down judgment following the trial of the dispute between Bidzina Ivanishvili and other plaintiffs and Credit Suisse Trust Limited. The claim stemmed from the long-running fraud committed by Patrice Lescaudron, an employee of Credit Suisse Bank in Geneva.
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Jonathan Adkin QC, Sophie Holcombe, and Jamie Randall act on behalf of the former Prime Minister of Georgia and his family as beneficiaries of a Singapore Trust in Ivanishvili, Bidzina and others v Credit Suisse Trust Ltd [2020] SGCA 62. Claims have been commenced against Credit Suisse entities for losses arising from the mismanagement of an investment portfolio said to be worth over US$1bn. In July 2020 the Singapore Court of Appeal dismissed Credit Suisse Trust’s jurisdiction challenge, bringing an end to a long-running jurisdiction battle.
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In Trafalgar v Hadley & Ors Justin Higgo QC and Jamie Randall continue to represent the liquidator of Trafalgar in multi-party proceedings in the Chancery Division to recover funds misappropriated from a Cayman Islands segregated portfolio by its fiduciaries.
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Lance Ashworth QC and Jamie Randall are representing the Defendants in Wright v Hill & Impact Property Development, a property development dispute concerning development sites in Rickmansworth worth up to £25 million. The Claimants are represented by James Mather.
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