Andrew Moran KC

Recent Cases

• Shetty v Al Rushaid Petroleum Investment Company & Others (Ch., 9 June 2011) Article 6(2) of Regulation 44/2001 – Jurisdiction over additional parties in a complex fraud case.
• Cook v Norlands Limited (P.C., 4 May 2000) – Doctrine of part performance; decrees of specific performance; claim for possession of property, Privy Council, appeal from Isle of Man Court of Appeal.
• International Credit and Investment Company (Overseas) Limited & Another v Sheikh Kamal Adham & Others – Part of the litigation following the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International; dishonest assistance in a fraudulent breach of trust, involving proceedings in England, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Panama, Argentina, Chile and Pakistan.
• Barlow Clowes International Ltd & Others v International Trust Corp. (IOM) Ltd. & Others [1996-1998] M.L.R. 222 (first instance), 240 (first instance), 394 (Court of Appeal of the Isle of Man), [2006] 1 W.L.R. 1476 (Privy Council) – The leading modern authority on the law relating to dishonest assistance in a breach of trust or fiduciary duty.
• Sagicor General Insurance (Cayman) Limited v Crawford Adjusters (Cayman) Limited – Proceedings in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands involving claims of breaches of fiduciary duty, breaches of contract, fraud and conspiracy as against loss adjusters, project managers and construction companies.
• Intrigue Shipping Inc. v H. Clarkson & Co. Limited & Others – A shipping fraud proceeding in the Commercial Court and involving sums between $100 and 200m.
• Winterthur Swiss Insurance Co. & Anr. v The Accident Group & Others & Various Lloyd’s Syndicates & Europ Assist v A.D. Firth & Co. & Others – Two groups of proceedings issued in 2005-2006 by Insurers against The Accident Group (“TAG”) and certain named firms of solicitors seeking the recovery of damages for negligence (in the first group of proceedings) and the recovery of unlawful referral fees (in the second group of proceedings). The total number of potential solicitor firm defendants was approximately 700 in the first group of proceedings and 400 in the second group and the potential total claim was worth in excess of £100m.
• Ng Enterprises Limited v Urban Council [1997] A.C. 168, P.C. – One of the last appeals from the Hong Kong Court of Appeal to the Privy Council, judicial review.
• Glengate-KG Properties Limited v Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society [1995] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 278, Q.B.D. (Comm. Ct.) & [1996] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 614, C.A. – Business interruption insurance.