The Public Institution for Social Security v Al Rajaan & others
On 26 January, the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in The Public Institution for Social Security v Al Rajaan & others [2022] EWCA Civ 29. The Court dismissed the Claimant’s appeal, which was heard over three days in December 2021, and confirmed that the English court has no jurisdiction to hear bribery and money-laundering claims against a number of Swiss-domiciled individuals and entities.
The case is one of the largest fraud disputes ever heard in the Commercial Court and featured in The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2020. The Court of Appeal decided entirely novel points on establishing jurisdiction under Article 6 of the Lugano Convention where there are (i) overlapping claims against the same defendant, some of which must be considered in that defendant’s state of domicile pursuant to an exclusive jurisdiction clause falling within Article 23 of the Convention, and (ii) connected claims against another defendant.
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Jonathan Adkin QC and Charlotte Beynon acted for the Fourth Defendant instructed by Peters & Peters.
Philip Marshall QC and Simon Hattan acted for the Fifth Defendant instructed by Eversheds.
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Jonathan Adkin KC
Call: 1997
Silk: 2013
Simon Hattan
Call: 1999
Charlotte Beynon has a commercial chancery practice encompassing contentious trusts, civil fraud, insolvency and commercial litigation.
Her clients say, “Charlotte is brilliant. A superstar in the making”, and they also commend her as “pragmatic, responsive and commercial.”
She frequently handles complex, high-value cases, onshore and offshore, often with international elements. She is particularly experienced in acting in high-value offshore trusts disputes and complex fraud claims – often raising issues of private international law.
Charlotte regularly appears in the High Court and County Court both led and as sole counsel. She also appears as specialist chancery counsel in matrimonial proceedings in the Family Division. Her legal writing has been published in Trusts & Trustees.
Charlotte Beynon
Call: 2015
