by Leela | 2020-09-28 | Industry News
In Peninsula Securities Ltd v Dunnes Stores (Bangor) Ltd [2020] UKSC 36, the Supreme Court held that a restrictive covenant given by a landlord of a shopping centre to an anchor tenant did not engage the common law doctrine of restraint of trade. The...
by Leela | 2020-09-25 | Industry News
On August 18, 2020, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) published a letter (the ‘Letter”) addressed to the European Commission (“EC”) on its recommendation for the upcoming review of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (“AIFMD”). Many...
by Leela | 2020-08-28 | Industry News
In CFH Clearing Limited v. Merrill Lynch International [2019] EWHC 963 (Comm), the High Court has dealt with the issue of whether or not a bank was obliged to reprice or cancel foreign exchange spot trades entered into at a time of severe market disruption, in...
by Leela | 2020-08-25 | Industry News
SUMMARY The recent shift from office base time to working from home and enforced social distancing measures in the current coronavirus pandemic (“Covid-19”) has raised a number of issues for signing and executing key documents, particularly when a witness is required...
by Leela | 2020-08-20 | Industry News
In Marex Financial Ltd v Sevilleja [2020] UKSC 31, the Supreme Court has allowed the appeal and fundamentally restricted what has to-date been referred to as the principle against the recovery of reflective loss, effectively overturning a string of previous Court of...
by Leela | 2020-08-05 | Industry News
On 26 June 2020, the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act (the “Act”) entered into force. The Act introduces some very significant reforms to the restructuring and insolvency framework in the UK, and also deals with immediate issues caused by the Covid-19 pandemic....
by Leela | 2020-06-16 | Industry News
The case of Financial Services (Europe) Limited v FCA[1] proves that it might be worth challenging the FCA and its supervisory powers, if your facts are right. The Upper Tribunal is an independent judicial body that hears the matter from scratch and develops its own...
by Leela | 2020-06-08 | Industry News
There are well-established principles that generally need to be applied where there is a mistake of some kind in a document which needs to be construed. However, the position is more complicated if the document is a public document. Instances involving various types...
by Leela | 2020-06-04 | Industry News
SUMMARY Social distancing measures in the current coronavirus pandemic (the “COVID-19”) have posed some interesting questions on how to effectively execute contracts in a way that ensures their validity, whilst keeping the parties safe and in compliance with the...
by Leela | 2020-05-26 | Industry News
A recent decision of the English Commercial Court (the “Court”) – Alfred Street Properties Limited (formerly known as Killultagh Estets Limited) v National Asset Management Agency [2020] EWCK 397 – has given guidance on the interpretation of the...
