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Insolvency

Dolfin Financial UK Ltd, Re

The High Court ordered the special administrators to pay indemnity costs, refused recoupment from assets, and dealt separately with costs on a related delay claim.

  • Costs
  • Recoupment
  • Special administration
  • Indemnity costs
  • Distribution of assets
  • Indemnity-costs
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Civil procedure [2026] EWHC 926 (Ch)

Bourlakova & Ors v Bourlakov & Ors

Bourlakova & Ors v Bourlakov & Ors [2026] EWHC 926 (Ch) (24 April 2026)

The High Court refused defendants’ bid to expand disclosure and further information orders, holding the proposed exercise was premature, disproportionate, and too close to an account.

  • Disclosure and case management
  • Partnership accounting
  • Nominee and custodianship claims
  • Unjust enrichment
  • Specific performance
  • Tracing and account
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Company law

Richard Stanley Morgan v Nigel James Morgan & Ors

The court found that Richard Morgan was unfairly excluded from a family farming company, ordered loan repayment and a buy-out, and dismissed Jane Morgan’s counterclaim.

  • Unfair prejudice
  • Quasi-partnership
  • Directors' loans
  • Shareholder remedies
  • Employment status
  • Compensation sharing agreements
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Civil procedure [2026] EWHC 216 (Ch)

Parties Listed at Schedule 1 to the N244 v Kroll Trustee Services

Parties Listed at Schedule 1 to the N244 v Kroll Trustee Services [2026] EWHC 216 (Ch) (20 January 2026)

The High Court granted pre-action disclosure in a finance restructuring dispute, holding that confidentiality did not justify refusing targeted disclosure under CPR 31.16.

  • Pre-action disclosure
  • Abuse of majority power
  • Intercreditor agreements
  • Confidentiality in disclosure
  • Declaratory relief
  • Pre-action-disclosure
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Family law

SM v BA & Anor (No 3: Amendments to Statements of Case)

The application to amend was dismissed because it was a 'very late' amendment with no good explanation, would cause substantial prejudice to the respondents, jeopardise the trial date, lacked clarity and particularity, and any prejudice to the applicant was self-inflicted. The overriding objective and proportionality considerations weighed heavily against granting permission.

  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Beneficial ownership
  • Undue influence
  • Constructive trusts
  • Proprietary estoppel
  • Overriding objective
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Civil procedure [2025] EWHC 3471 (Comm)

Guy's & St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust & Anor v ESMS Global Ltd & Anor

Guy's & St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust & Anor v ESMS Global Ltd & Anor [2025] EWHC 3471 (Comm) (05 December 2025)

The court clarified that two former employees were already within the represented class under CPR 19.8, refused joinder and consultation directions, and ordered pleadings corrected.

  • Representative proceedings
  • Employee benefit trusts
  • Joinder of parties
  • Class definition under cpr 19.8
  • Correction of pleadings and orders
  • Representative-proceedings
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Insolvency [2025] EWHC 2830 (Ch)

Barnett v General Subsidiary 2 Ltd & Ors

Barnett v General Subsidiary 2 Ltd & Ors [2025] EWHC 2830 (Ch) (07 November 2025)

The High Court held that Cyan was entitled to funds held by the administrator, rejecting the GM Companies’ agency theory and adjourning HPL’s trust claim.

  • Beneficial ownership of funds in administration
  • Constructive trusts
  • Agency and nominee arrangements
  • Tracing and proprietary claims
  • Secured creditor rights
  • Pension fund misapplication
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Civil procedure [2025] EWHC 2876 (Comm)

Serious Fraud Office & Ors v Litigation Capital Ltd & Ors

Serious Fraud Office & Ors v Litigation Capital Ltd & Ors [2025] EWHC 2876 (Comm) (05 November 2025)

The court refused to debar Mr Nicholas Thomas from the Enforceability Hearing, but ordered him to provide £200,000 security for costs for his cross-application.

  • Debarring orders
  • Security for costs
  • Abuse of process
  • Res judicata
  • Enforceability of litigation funding agreements
  • Debarring-orders
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