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A New Era of Corporate Insolvency: the Jersey creditors’ winding up
By James Barratt and Ashley Katz of Fried,…
29/02/2024
Brake & Anor v The Chedington Court Estate Ltd [2023] UKSC 29
By Jon Colclough (South Square)
12/02/2024
Reliance On The Merger Price In Cayman Appraisal Actions
BY Andrew Jackson (Appleby), Damon Booth (Appleby), Barry…
02/10/2023
The spectrum of control: the decision in Re Avanti Communications Limited
BY Tom Smith KC and Edoardo Lupi
31/08/2023
Evaluation of the UK’s CIGA Reforms: A Best Practice Model?
BY Felicity Toube KC Hilary Stonefrost Scott Atkins…
18/07/2023
The Interests of Creditors in the Zone of Insolvency
BY Scott Atkins of Norton Rose Fulbright Felicity…
27/02/2023
BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA: The Creditor Duty Comes of Age
BY MARK PHILLIPS KC1 MARK ARNOLD KC RABIN…
24/01/2023
The mountaineer’s knee: scope of the professional adviser’s duty of care explored
The Supreme Court has recently reconsidered the scope…
21/12/2021
Restrictions on winding up: Phase II
On 9 September 2021, the government announced that…
02/12/2021
CIGA 2.0: The New Restrictions on Winding-Up
On 30 September 2021 the current restrictions on…
29/09/2021
Pre-Packs: The New Regulations
Pre-packaged administration sales, or “pre-packs”, remain a widely…
31/08/2021
Moving on to saving livelihoods-
the Government’s plan to deal with COVID period…
13/08/2021
The UK Rescue Moratorium and the Australian SBR
Independence and Investigation Difficulties for Practitioners New rescue…
30/07/2021
Charting new waters: DeepOcean and Restructuring Plans
DeepOcean is the first case of the English…
05/05/2021
Emerging Patterns in Cayman Islands Merger Appraisal Litigation
Rocco Cecere (Partner, Collas Crill) and Edoardo Lupi…
04/05/2021
Cryptocurrencies: 2020 and beyond
Robert Amey and Jonathon Milne discuss Cryptocurrencies: 2020…
24/02/2021
Virgin Atlantic Restructuring Plan
Lottie Pyper looks at Virgin Atlantic proposing the…
24/02/2021
Strengthening business rescue in the UK and Australia
Felicity Toube QC, Hilary Stonefrost, Scott Atkins and…
24/02/2021
Brexit: A deal that leaves recognition of UK insolvency procedures uncertain
Mark Phillips QC and Paul Fradley discuss Brexit:…
08/01/2021
Winding down winding up: the temporary restrictions
Hilary Stonefrost and Daniel Judd discuss Winding down…
01/07/2020
Ipso Facto Reform – Why now, and does it go too far?
Felicity Toube QC and Georgina Peters consider the…
30/06/2020
The Role of the Monitor in a Rescue Moratorium
Glen Davis QC explores the role of the…
30/06/2020
Knowing when to stop: Wrongful Trading and Covid
Richard Fisher QC and Roseanna Darcy consider the…
30/06/2020
Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill 2020
A breath of fresh air By Mark Phillips…
05/06/2020
Litigation Funding in Insolvency
Litigation funding (also referred to as litigation finance)…
26/03/2020
Reflective Loss: the Unprincipled Principle
The reflective loss principle (‘RLP’) is designed to…
04/12/2019
Cryptoassets, cryptoliabilities: bitcoin and insolvency
Much ink has been spilt of late, including…
04/12/2019
BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA [2019] EWCA Civ 112: the Twilight Zone
In February this year, the Court of Appeal…
13/08/2019
Cryptocurrency: a guide for the rest of us
Articles about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies tend to…
30/07/2019
Artificial Intelligence in English Law: A Research Agenda
Artificial intelligence (AI) is attracting an enormous amount…
29/03/2019
Brexit: Where are we going? Chequers or “No Deal”?
In the last edition of the Digest I…
14/11/2018
Excluding evidence from the matrix of facts
Hannah Thornley was appointed as a specialist legal…
24/07/2018
Schemes of Arrangement and the Judgments Regulation: The New Authorities
Ryan Perkins considers the application of the Judgments…
27/06/2018
Powers of investigation in a cross-border context
William Trower QC and Edoardo Lupi review the…
26/06/2018
Supreme Court hands down judgment in Waterfall 1
Alexander Riddiford and Robert Amey report on the…
26/06/2018
Banks’ liability for fraudulent withdrawals by authorised individuals
Madeleine Jones comments on the recent Court of…
25/06/2018
Declaring dividends in the face of contingent liabilities
Following the recent High Court decision in BTI…
25/06/2018
Leeds v Lemos: The rights of privilege in bankruptcy
On 17 July 2017, His Honour Judge Hodge…
25/06/2018
Primeo v HSBC: Madoff feeder fund claim dismissed by Cayman Court
Toby Brown reports on the Grand Court’s decision…
25/06/2018
Repudiatory breach claim upon contractual termination
Georgina Peters discusses the Commercial Court’s recent rejection…
25/06/2018
Dishonest Assistance – Two new decisions
David Alexander QC reports on recent dishonest assistance…
25/06/2018
Shopping and scheming and the rule in Gibbs
In the aftermath of the Singapore High Court’s…
25/06/2018
The Cayman Islands as a restructuring centre: Ocean Rig opens the door
Daniel Bayfield QC and Nick Herrod of Maples…
25/06/2018
Is evidence outside a registered document excluded from facts?
In the light of the decision in…
25/06/2018
Unfair trials – the perils of late evidence and insufficient reasons
Two recent cases in the Chancery Division provide…
22/06/2018
Preserving the Golden Goose…
Richard Fisher identifies further guidance of the scheme…
22/06/2018
Salford or the BVI: is there a dispute?
Mark Arnold QC explores the differences of approach…
21/06/2018
Codere: a development in the cross-border scheme jurisdiction
David Allison QC and Ryan Perkins consider the…
20/06/2018
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