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Area of Law: Prof Jonathan Harris KC (Hon.)
On 18 September 2024, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in UniCredit Bank GmbH v. RusChemAlliance LLC [2024] UKSC 30. The judgment of Lord Leggatt (with whom Lord Reed, Lord Sales, Lord Burrows and Lady Rose agreed) sets out the reasons for the Supreme Court’s dismissal of the appeal previously announced after the expedited hearing in mid-April. The case concerns proceedings brought in the Russian courts in breach of a clause contained in bonds providing for arbitration in Paris. Unicredit sought a final injunction in the English court to restrain the continuance of those proceedings. The Supreme Court determined two principal issues:
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Philip Marshall QC, Jonathan Harris QC (Hon.) and James Mather are acting for Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank in State of Qatar v Emirates NBD Bank, one of the largest claims to be brought in the English High Court, in which claims are brought against the bank by the State of Qatar in conspiracy said to arise out of an alleged international scheme to manipulate the value of Qatari currency and bonds connected with the so-called ‘blockade’ of Qatar by neighbouring Gulf states causing the Qatari Central Bank to have to deposit US$13 billion.
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In IPCom GmbH & Co KG v Vodafone Group PLC [2019] EWHC 1212 (Pat) and [2019] EWHC 1255 (Pat) Prof. Jonathan Harris KC (Hon.) acted for Vodafone in a challenge to the court's jurisdiction to hear claims for infringement of standard essential patents and FRAND, where parallel proceedings had been ongoing in the German courts.
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Jonathan Harris QC (Hon.) and Zahler Bryan successfully argued that an investor in Bitcoin futures was a consumer for the purposes of the European rules of jurisdiction in Ang v Reliantco [2019] 3 W.L.R. 161.
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Jonathan Harris QC (Hon.) and Adrian de Froment appeared in the trial of the governing law of an agency contract to distribute poultry equipment in North America.
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Prof Jonathan Harris QC (Hon.) & Adrian de Froment instructed by the successful Defendant in trial of a preliminary issue as to the governing law of an agency contract to distribute poultry equipment in North America.
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Prof. Jonathan Harris and Oliver Jones were instructed in Bowes v Panareti [2018] a jurisdiction dispute concerning alleged misselling of properties in Cyprus.
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In A v A; A v Line Trust Corporation Corporation & Ors (2017/CACIV/01) (Gibraltrar), Dakis Hagen QC, Jonathan Harris QC (Hon.) and James Weale represented the applicant and Richard Wilson QC represented the respondent husband in one of highest value divorce cases in recent years. The dispute involved two complex overseas trust structures and generated six claims in three different jurisdictions (England, Gibraltar and the Cayman Islands). The proceedings in Gibraltar concerned the court’s jurisdiction to determine matters relating to the validity of actions taken by the trustee of a Gibraltar trust when those issues had been raised in English matrimonial proceedings and gave rise to complex issues of private international law.
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Professor Jonathan Harris QC (Hon.) and Sophie Holcombe acted for the defendant company trading in Carbon Credits in successfully discharging an ex parte injunction obtained in support of Polish proceedings on the basis, inter alia, that the relevant EU jurisdiction rules were arguably infringed.
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