by Leela | 2020-08-28 | Industry News
In CFH Clearing Limited v. Merrill Lynch International [2019] EWHC 963 (Comm), the High Court has dealt with the issue of whether or not a bank was obliged to reprice or cancel foreign exchange spot trades entered into at a time of severe market disruption, in...
by Leela | 2020-08-25 | Industry News
SUMMARY The recent shift from office base time to working from home and enforced social distancing measures in the current coronavirus pandemic (“Covid-19”) has raised a number of issues for signing and executing key documents, particularly when a witness is required...
by Leela | 2020-08-20 | Industry News
In Marex Financial Ltd v Sevilleja [2020] UKSC 31, the Supreme Court has allowed the appeal and fundamentally restricted what has to-date been referred to as the principle against the recovery of reflective loss, effectively overturning a string of previous Court of...
by Leela | 2020-08-05 | Industry News
On 26 June 2020, the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act (the “Act”) entered into force. The Act introduces some very significant reforms to the restructuring and insolvency framework in the UK, and also deals with immediate issues caused by the Covid-19 pandemic....
by Leela | 2020-06-16 | Industry News
The case of Financial Services (Europe) Limited v FCA[1] proves that it might be worth challenging the FCA and its supervisory powers, if your facts are right. The Upper Tribunal is an independent judicial body that hears the matter from scratch and develops its own...
