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Company law

Yiannakis Chambi v Aristos Aristodemou & Anor

The High Court held that Mr Aristodemou’s conduct unfairly prejudiced Mr Chambi, including misapplied company funds, false accounts, and asset diversion.

  • Unfair prejudice
  • Director duties
  • Quasi-partnership
  • Misapplication of company funds
  • False accounting
  • Shareholder remedies
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Company law

Yodel Delivery Network Limited v Jacob Corlett & Ors

The High Court dismissed counterclaims over alleged Yodel share warrants, finding the documents were forged, backdated, and unsupported by genuine execution.

  • Forgery of corporate instruments
  • Directors' duties
  • Insolvency and creditor duty
  • Specific performance
  • Share warrants
  • Ratification of breach of duty
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Civil procedure

Dianne Levinson & Anor v Janis Franzer Cross & Ors

The applicants failed to establish that the balance of convenience favoured the grant of interim injunctive relief, as there was insufficient urgency, the evidence supporting the presence of remains was thin, and the applicants' conduct (deception, harassment, threats) was egregious and directly connected to the relief sought, engaging the clean hands doctrine. The court refused the application for interim relief.

  • Interim injunctions
  • Common law right to burial
  • Possession of human remains
  • Article 8 echr (right to privacy)
  • Clean hands doctrine
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Civil procedure [2025] EWHC 3148 (Ch)

Levinson & Anor v Cross & Ors

Levinson & Anor v Cross & Ors [2025] EWHC 3148 (Ch) (25 November 2025)

The High Court refused an interim injunction and dismissed an application to allow a ground-penetrating radar survey at a London property linked to the search for Muriel McKay’s remains.

  • Interim injunctions
  • Common law duty of burial
  • Right of access to property
  • Clean hands doctrine
  • Article 8 echr (right to privacy)
  • Interim-injunctions
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Commercial law

DBLP Sea Cow Limited v Lars Steffenson

The High Court granted an interim proprietary injunction over shares or sale proceeds, finding a serious issue over trust, urgency, and no adequate damages remedy.

  • Proprietary injunction
  • Trusts
  • Clean hands doctrine
  • Contract variation
  • Freezing orders
  • Interim-injunctions
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Equity [2025] EWHC 2732 (Ch)

DBLP Sea Cow Ltd v Steffenson

DBLP Sea Cow Ltd v Steffenson [2025] EWHC 2732 (Ch) (02 October 2025)

The High Court granted a holding proprietary injunction over shares or their sale proceeds in a dispute over whether a 16 May 2025 SPA created a trust.

  • Proprietary injunction
  • Breach of trust
  • Share sale dispute
  • Clean hands doctrine
  • Interim relief
  • Proprietary-injunction
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Equity

Santokh Singh Bains v Nadira Siraj Irshad & Anor

The claimant was not entitled to any share of the proceeds from the sale of the Brentwood Hotel or Stockland Street property. The court found that the claimant and first defendant were partners at will until 2011, when the claimant was bought out through refinancing and payment. There was no express or implied trust, no proprietary estoppel, and no constructive trust in the claimant's favour after 2011. The claimant's evidence was found to be dishonest, including fabrication of the existence of 'Aamer Gull'. Even if the claims had merit, the claimant would have been barred from equitable reli…

  • Resulting trusts
  • Constructive trusts
  • Proprietary estoppel
  • Partnership dissolution
  • Tracing
  • Unlawful means conspiracy
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Company law

Oncoqr ML GmbH v Frederick Jacobs & Ors

The Court found that TYG Oncology Limited is functionally deadlocked and that there has been a total breakdown of trust and confidence between directors, in a company properly considered a quasi-partnership. No alternative remedy exists and the Petitioner is not barred by the clean hands doctrine. Winding up is just and equitable.

  • Just and equitable winding up
  • Quasi-partnership
  • Directors' duties
  • Deadlock
  • Clean hands doctrine
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Company law [2025] EWHC 1567 (Ch)

OncoQR ML GmbH v Jacobs & Ors

OncoQR ML GmbH v Jacobs & Ors [2025] EWHC 1567 (Ch) (17 June 2025)

The High Court ordered TYG Oncology Limited wound up on just and equitable grounds, finding functional deadlock, irretrievable breakdown, and no realistic alternative remedy.

  • Just and equitable winding up
  • Director fiduciary duties
  • Corporate deadlock
  • Quasi-partnership
  • Clean hands doctrine
  • Just-and-equitable-winding-up
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