#SerleShare – John Machell QC has written a Case Note on the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal’s judgment in Durant International Corp v Maluf 2021-0025 (BVIHC)
John Machell QC has written a Case Note on the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal’s judgment in Durant International Corp v Maluf 2021-0025 (BVIHC).
The judgment contains analysis on the need for the method of service in the foreign jurisdiction to comply with the domestic court’s order permitting service out of the jurisdiction. The appeal raised issues as to the service of proceedings in Hague Service Convention states and the effect of the pandemic.
John Machell QC and Tim de Swardt of Kobre & Kim acted on behalf of the Appellant.
To read John’s comments on the judgment, please click here.
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John Machell KC has a broad commercial chancery practice, with particular experience in large-scale litigation involving trusts, fiduciary/director duties, and fraud, particularly with an international dimension.
John is regarded as one of the leading partnership and LLP silks and has experience of a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious matters across the whole range of business sectors. A large part of his work involves issues arising from the use of partnerships and LLPs in hedge fund and private equity structures; in international commercial group structures; and as part of wealth planning strategies.
A substantial part of John’s practice is offshore, and he has appeared in the courts of Grand Cayman, the British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda on several occasions in recent years.
John Machell KC
Call: 1993
Silk: 2012
