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 […]
Mr James Main v SpaDental Ltd and Timothy Alexander Close
Jamie Cockfield, instructed by Katie Farmer at Trowers & Hamlins LLP, was successful for the trustee in bankruptcy in the Employment Appeals Tribunal. The appeal turned on whether a bankrupt dentist’s claim for holiday pay under the Working Time Regulations 1998, brought in respect of a period of working from March 2013 until February 2019, […]
Contract Natural Gas Ltd v Zog Energy Ltd [2025] EWHC 86 (Ch)
Andrew Brown, instructed by Fraser Ritson and Aziz Abdul of Addleshaw Goddard, successfully represented the liquidators of Contract Natural Gas Limited, Joshua Dwyer and Will Wright of Interpath, in the recent High Court decision of Contract Natural Gas (in liquidation) v Zog Energy Limited (in liquidation) EWHC 86 (Ch) in which Andrew Twigger KC, sitting […]
