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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
10 June 2015
Protecting the financial information of high net worth individuals
There has been much debate over the past few years about the extent to which high net worth individuals have a right to keep their financial affairs private. This has been a particularly thorny issue in respect of alleged tax avoiders. It is a debate that is unlikely to go away any time soon.
22 May 2015
Legal update: boost for civil recovery abroad
Corporate Crime analysis: Will the recent decision of the Luxembourg District Court make it easier for the National Crime Agency (NCA) to recover criminal assets held overseas? Fiona Simpson, partner, and Sameena Munir, both of Kingsley Napley, comment on the landmark ruling that could strengthen international cooperation in the recovery of proceeds of crime.
19 May 2015
Unlikely beneficiary of a Will – Sharp v Hutchins
In the recent case of Sharp v Hutchins (2015) the High Court has upheld the 2013 will of elderly bachelor Ronald Butcher, leaving the beneficiaries of an earlier will who expected to receive a share of Mr Butcher’s estate disappointed.
8 May 2015
Individuals prevent Daily Mail publication of their “private and confidential” relationship
In April this year an urgent application was made on behalf of two individuals for an injunction to prohibit publication by the defendant, the publisher of the Daily Mail, of what they claimed to be private and confidential information about them.
29 April 2015
Legal Update: Jetivia v Bilta
Liquidators and creditors of insolvent companies will be breathing a collective sigh of relief at the recent Supreme Court judgment in Jetivia v Bilta, where it held that the illegality defence was not available where a company, through its liquidators, was making claims against the directors for breaches of their duties to the company. In some ways the result was not that surprising, but should it have gone the other way, it would have deprived liquidators of a well-used weapon in their armoury for bringing claims against directors who have defrauded a company on its way to insolvency.
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