Core VCT v Soho Square Capital and others [2025] EWHC 1918 (Ch)
On 25 July 2025, judgment was handed down by Tom Smith KC, sitting as deputy high court judge, in Core VCT v Soho Square Capital and others [2025] EWHC 1918 (Ch), a decision concerning the law of amendment to plead new causes of action and the application of section 32 of the Limitation Act in […]
Re Rational Foreign Exchange Limited [2025] EWHC 1958 (Ch)
SPECIAL ADMINISTRATION – PSAR DISTRIBUTION PLAN ALONGSIDE DIRECTIONS On 28 July 2025, Mr Justice Mellor handed down judgment approving a distribution plan in the special administration of Rational Foreign Exchange Limited (the Firm), sanctioning the joint special administrators’ proposed plan to return safeguarded funds to customers of the Firm. Alongside the distribution plan, the joint […]
Re Ziglu – special administration and choice of administrators
On 7 July 2025, ICC Judge Agnello KC made a special administration order in respect of an e-money institution (Ziglu Ltd) pursuant to the Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency Regulations 2021 (Regulations) and appointed David Shambrook and Damian Webb of RSM UK Restructuring Advisory LLP as administrators (RSM). A key policy behind the Regulations […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lonham Group Limited v Scotbeef Limited & DS Storage Limited
Today, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in Lonham Group Limited v Scotbeef Limited & DS Storage Limited (in liquidation) [2025] EWCA Civ 203 in which Christopher Boardman KC and Andrew Brown appeared on behalf of the First Respondent. The appeal was concerned with the construction of a contract of insurance and the potential […]
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 […]
