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The barristers at XXIV Old Buildings specialise in: arbitration; aviation; charities; civil fraud, asset tracing and recovery; commercial litigation…
XXIV Old Buildings | United Kingdom | 12 Jul 2022
Bank to basics: a return to orthodoxy for the Quincecare duty?
If a bank is “put on enquiry” that a customer’s Instruction is in fact an attempt to defraud that customer, the bank has a duty to refrain from…
XXIV Old Buildings | United Kingdom | 20 Jun 2022
Lessons from a successful fraudulent calumny claim: Whittle v Whittle [2022] EWHC 925 (Ch)
All those familiar with the world of probate litigation will be aware of the caution with which practitioners treat allegations of fraudulent calumny…
XXIV Old Buildings | United Kingdom | 18 May 2022
Commercial Court finds that s.423 claims in respect of transfers of corporate assets do not raise a serious issue to be tried
The Commercial Court (Andrew Baker J) has handed down judgment on a jurisdiction challenge in Invest Bank v El-Husseini [2022] EWHC 894 (Comm)…
XXIV Old Buildings | United Kingdom | 9 May 2022
A return to normality in the law of testamentary capacity - Hughes v Pritchard [2022] EWCA Civ 386
The recent case of Hughes v Pritchard [2022] EWCA Civ 386 provides a rare example of an appellate court overturning the factual findings made at…
XXIV Old Buildings | United Kingdom | 29 Apr 2022
Landmark judgment on investment powers of charity trustees (represented by Edward Cumming QC) in the face of climate change: Butler-Sloss & ors v Charity Commission & anr [2022] EWHC 974 (Ch)
Michael Green J today (29 April 2022) handed down a much-anticipated judgment in Butler-Sloss & Ors v Charity Commission & Anr [2022] EWHC 974 (Ch) -…
XXIV Old Buildings | United Kingdom | 22 Apr 2022
The role for restitutionary remedies for unjust enrichment: Review of Recent Cases
The Supreme Court tells us the law of unjust enrichment “is designed to correct normatively defective transfers of value” and “reflects an…
XXIV Old Buildings | United Kingdom | 30 Mar 2022
How to spend it: what to do with £600 million held on a failed charitable trust - H.M. Attorney General v Zedra Fiduciary Services (UK) Limited [2022] EWHC 102 (Ch)
H.M. Attorney General v Zedra Fiduciary Services (UK) Limited [2022] EWHC 102 (Ch) (“Zedra II”) was the second substantive instalment in the recent…
XXIV Old Buildings | United Kingdom, USA | 28 Mar 2022
Francis Tregear QC successful in US Bankruptcy Court
Francis Tregear QC was instructed to act as an expert in English law for the successful party (“JPA”) in a dispute heard by Hon. David S Jones a…
XXIV Old Buildings | Global, United Kingdom | 28 Mar 2022
Enforcing Oral Wills in the BVI
The Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal handed down an important judgment on Wednesday 23 March 2022 in the case of Al-Thani v Al Thani whose effect is…
XXIV Old Buildings | United Kingdom | 1 Feb 2022
Cryptocurrencies and Civil Fraud Practice - Questions in a Developing Area
The use of cryptocurrency in commercial dealings and civil fraud has increasingly called upon the courts to consider how to fit these into existing…
