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Checkmate – managing a counterparty’s insolvency
21 September 2026 News Commercial and corporate disputes Checkmate – your essential guide to commercial disputes This series of articles provides a valuable point of orientation to help readers navigate uncertainty with greater confidence.
Checkmate – freezing injunctions
21 September 2026 News Commercial and corporate disputes Checkmate – your essential guide to commercial disputes This series of articles provides a valuable point of orientation to help readers navigate uncertainty with greater confidence. Read our Checkmate series Formal dispute resolution processes have a reputation (perhaps deservedly) for being lengthy and time consuming. This is especially true of litigation before courts and, to some extent, arbitration.
Checkmate – understanding derivative claims
22 July 2026 Uncategorized Checkmate – your essential guide to commercial disputes This series of articles provides a valuable point of orientation to help readers navigate uncertainty with greater confidence. Read our Checkmate series Derivative claims occupy a unique position in English company law.
Checkmate – shareholder disputes and unfair prejudice petitions
26 May 2026 News Commercial and corporate disputes , Dispute resolution Checkmate – your essential guide to commercial disputes This series of articles provides a valuable point of orientation to help readers navigate uncertainty with greater confidence. Read our Checkmate series As the name suggests, unfair prejudice petitions provide a mechanism for shareholders to seek relief when they have been unfairly prejudiced by the manner in which a company’s affairs have been conducted.
Checkmate – managing post-acquisition disputes
26 May 2026 News Commercial and corporate disputes , Dispute resolution Checkmate – your essential guide to commercial disputes This series of articles provides a valuable point of orientation to help readers navigate uncertainty with greater confidence. Read our Checkmate series While the issues in today’s evolving commercial disputes landscape are endlessly varied, certain broad dispute types recur time and again.
Checkmate – understanding directors’ duties and risk
26 May 2026 News Commercial and corporate disputes , Dispute resolution Checkmate – your essential guide to commercial disputes This series of articles provides a valuable point of orientation to help readers navigate uncertainty with greater confidence. Read our Checkmate series A company’s directors are the key individuals responsible for the conduct of its affairs. Their conduct is regulated largely through their directors’ duties.
Checkmate – a typical High Court claim
26 May 2026 Uncategorized Commercial and corporate disputes , Dispute resolution Checkmate – your essential guide to commercial disputes This series of articles provides a valuable point of orientation to help readers navigate uncertainty with greater confidence. Read our Checkmate series For many businesses and individuals, court proceedings in England and Wales appear unfamiliar and complex.
Forsters’ Commercial Dispute Resolution team recognised in The Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2026
14 January 2026 News The Lawyer’s list of the Top 20 cases to be heard in the Courts of England and Wales in 2026 features Hipgnosis Music Limited (In Liquidation) v Merck Mercuriadis & Ors in which Forsters acts for the Claimant. The Forsters team is led by Partner and Head of Disputes, Benedict Walton, with support from Senior Associate Edward Richards and Associates Nicholas Owen, Frances Snowball and Saffy Sall.
Live Forever? - The Privy Council finally calls time on the Shareholder Rule
17 October 2025 News In a landmark decision that will undoubtedly reshape how companies and shareholders interact in legal disputes, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has abolished the longstanding Shareholder Rule – a principle that’s been around for over 140 years. The case in question? Jardine Strategic Limited v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd and 80 others (No 2), heard in Bermuda and appealed to the final court of appeal for UK overseas territories and Crown dependencies.
The Lifecycle of a Business - Dispute resolution: What are a company’s options?
6 November 2024 News Setting up and running your own business is an amazing achievement. It requires vision, creativity, motivation and stamina. On occasion, it can even bring you fame, riches and fortune. But it can also result in reams of paperwork and cause sleepless nights. And as someone once said to me about children “It doesn’t get easier, it just changes”, so the same can be said for your business throughout its lifecycle.
Clarity And Simplicity For The Law On Limitation In
Limitation periods reflect the uncontroversial principle that a defendant should not be exposed to a claim which the claimant has unreasonably delayed in pursuing. However, what should happen to the limitation period where the defendant is responsible for the claimant's delay, having concealed the facts underlying the cause of action? This is the issue which is addressed by ss.
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It is well established that the English Court has discretion to excuse a party from performance of its procedural obligations in litigation where it considers that performing those obligations would give rise to an actual risk of prosecution in a foreign state: Bank Mellat v HM Treasury [2019] EWCA Civ 449.
Recollections: The Kramers and the POWs
"IN MEMORY of ten German prisoners of war who thank you for a couple hours of hospitality they experienced with you.
Methodist Church facilities in service to the community
The First United Methodist Church of Marshall facilities have served community purposes for more than 150 years.
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