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Area of Law: Civil Fraud
Philip Marshall QC and James Mather acted for Constantin Medien in a claim against Bayerische Landesbank for US$130m arising out of the sale in 2006 of the bank's stake in Formula One under the influence of a bribe paid to its senior official.
Read MoreArea of Law: Intellectual Property
Michael Edenborough KC leading Adil Mohamedbhai and Sophie Holcombe in an unsuccessful attempt to get a pro bono costs award from the Appointed Person.
Read MoreArea of Law: Intellectual Property
Philip Jones KC successfully acted for HMRC in this appeal that concerned the treatment of unregistered trade marks in an assignment that formed part of a tax avoidance scheme.
Read MoreArea of Law: Property
An important decision which, in upholding an aspect of the decision of Hildyard J, determined for the first time that a riparian owner cannot moor a vessel alongside his riparian land simply by virtue of riparian ownership of the river bank. Also concerned the construction and application of the British Waterways Acts. Christopher Stoner QC acted for the Defendant (instructed by Shoosmiths)
Read MoreLand Adjudication proceedings on the issue of whether the Port of London Authority could establish paper title to a part of the River Thames opposite Kew Gardens.
Read MoreArea of Law: Civil Fraud
Michael Edenborough KC and David Drake are two of the four counsel acting for the SoS in this claim to recovery the monopolistic profits made by Servier based upon its invalid patent for perindopril (an ACE inhibitor used to combat high blood pressure). Part of the claim involves an allegation that SErvier improperly obtained a European Patent by deceiving the EPO as to the allegedly novelty of the invention. There is satellite litigation before the CJEU on the competition aspects and various issues concerning the disclosure being purported prevented by the French criminal code.
Read MoreArea of Law: Intellectual Property
Michael Edenborough KC was instructed by AIPPI UK to intervene in the Supreme Court case that ruled on the issue of whether legal advice privilege should be extended to tax accountants when advising on tax matters. AIPPI was concerned to ensure that no adverse consequences inadvertently arose for the protection of advice given by patent and trade mark attorneys.
Read MoreArea of Law: Matrimonial Finance: Trusts and Company law
Daniel Lightman QC represented Mrs Prest, the successful appellant, in a landmark Supreme Court decision on the circumstances in which the court can pierce the corporate veil to make orders requiring the transfer to a former wife of assets and property held by offshore companies connected to the husband.
Read MoreArea of Law: Matrimonial Finance: Trusts and Company law
In UL v BK [2013] EWHC 1735, the leading authority in the Family Courts in respect of freezing injunction principles and without notice applications, Dakis Hagen QC represented the husband before Mostyn J.
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