The Legal 500 Bar Awards: Radcliffe Chambers shortlisted for 5 awards
Radcliffe Chambers is delighted to have been shortlisted in 5 categories for the Legal 500 Bar Awards 2025, including 4 individual nominations for members of Chambers. Members: Chancery, Silk of the Year, Keith Rowley KC Chancery, Junior of the Year, Elizabeth Ovey Public Services and Charities, Silk of the Year, Robert Pearce KC Public Services […]
Re MIR Limited [2025] ORD21/0001, ORD21/0002 & ORD21/0009
Zachary Kell appeared before the First Deemster of the High Court (Isle of Man) in a two-day hearing of applications relating to complex issues of disclosure. The underlying proceedings are three claims, namely (i) a minority oppression claim, (ii) a claim for, inter alia, taking confidential/commercially sensitive information, and (iii) a claim for secret profits. […]
Bishop v Jaques [2025] UKUT 141 (LC)
In a decision handed down today by the Upper Tribunal in Bishop v Jaques [2025] UKUT 141 (LC), Deputy Chamber President Martin Rodger KC considered, amongst other things, two interesting questions about boundary agreements: (1) whether they can be binding on proprietors of land and their successors in title even though the land on which […]
Planning dispute enforcement notice appeal – Tan House and Hillside Retreat
Tan House second enforcement notice appeal succeeds with a (second) costs award. By a decision letter and separate costs decision both dated 9 May 2025, planning Inspector John Braithwaite BSc(Arch) BArch(Hons) RIBA MRTPI allowed a ground B appeal, quashed the enforcement notice [alleging the making of a material change of use], and granted retrospective planning […]
Haut v Holm [2025] GCA/006
Stuart Benzie was instructed (with Michelle Ullger) to appear in the Court of Appeal of Gibraltar for the successful respondents in Haut v. Holm [2025] GCA/006. The appeal concerned the ownership of shares in a Gibraltar company that held shares in three Spanish companies that in turn owned a portfolio of properties in Spain. The […]
Outsideclinic Limited [2025] EWHC 875 (Ch)
On Friday 11 April 2025, Mr Justice Adam Johnson handed down his written reasons for having sanctioned a restructuring plan advanced by OutsideClinic Limited, a leading provider of in-home audiology and optometry services. The plan had been sanctioned at a hearing on 28 March 2025. The judgment addresses two important points for those considering using […]
Chambers Pupils Enter Their Second Six
We are pleased to announce that our current pupils Rachel Lane, Zara Yusuf and Samuel Lane have started their second six and are available to take instructions starting this week.
Re OutsideClinic – Sanction of a Restructuring Plan
On 28 March 2025, Mr Justice Adam Johnson sanctioned a restructuring plan relating to OutsideClinic Limited, the UK’s leading provider of home visit eye and hearing care services. The Plan raised interesting questions about the treatment of HMRC, resulting in HMRC appearing in court for a second time – under its new policy to appear […]
Tom Beasley successfully appears in bitterly fought shareholder dispute
After a two-week trial, involving eight witnesses of fact and two accounting experts, Charles Morrison (sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court) has ruled in favour of the Defendant in Singh v Bains and G B Retail Ltd [2025] EWHC 141 (Ch), rejecting the Claimant’s case that he was entitled to a share […]
Commercial Court judgment handed down in 10-year fraud proceedings
Commercial Court judgment handed down in 10-year-long US$325m West African oil trading fraud proceedings. Last week, following a three-month trial, Mr Justice Henshaw handed down judgment in Alta Trading UK (formerly known as Arcadia Petroleum Limited) v. Bosworth [2025] EWHC 91 (Comm). This was a long-running dispute, which has come before courts at various levels in […]
