Since 1 January 2026, a two-year pilot is now running in the English Commercial Court (including the London Circuit Commercial Court) and the Financial List which changes how public access to court documents works. If you are involved in litigation in these courts, documents used or referred to in public hearings during the Pilot period … Continue Reading
On 2 December 2025, the Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025 (the “2025 Act”) came into force. The Act confirms that digital assets can attract personal property rights even though they fall outside traditional classifications. The Act is deliberately short, leaving the development of this new category of personal property, and the rights that may … Continue Reading
Following on from our Blog post and article from November of last year that looked at the potential liabilities of banks and related parties in the context of authorised push payment (“APP”) frauds, the recent decision of Master Brown in CCP Graduate School Ltd v National Westminster Bank PLC & Anor [2024] EWHC 581 (KB) … Continue Reading
Search orders Search orders are a form of interim, mandatory injunction which require a respondent to allow the applicant’s representatives to enter the respondent’s premises and search for, copy and remove documents or material for the purpose of preserving evidence and/or property which is or may be subject to an action. Search orders are, therefore, … Continue Reading
Following on from our recent Blog post about UK Finance’s half-yearly fraud update, in an article published today with the International Banker we look at the increasingly common authorised push payment (APP) fraud and consider what can be done and who might be liable?… Continue Reading
The recent interim judgment of Therium Litigation Funding A IC v Bugsby Property LLC [2023] EWHC 2627 (Comm) appears to give us an early indication of what might become key battlegrounds between Third-Party Funders and certain funded litigants in the wake of the Supreme Court’s impactful determination in R (PACCAR) v Competition Appeal Tribunal [2023] … Continue Reading
