May 2019
29/5/19
MICHEL v MICHEL [2019] EWHC 1378 (Ch)
Summarises applicable principles for a finding of unfair prejudice [73]. On the facts the claim failed because there had been no quasi-partnership and the petitioner had no right to be a director.
28/5/19
BARCLAYS BANK PLC v MARSDEN [2019] EWHC 3741 (Comm)
A customer’s swap mis-selling against a bank was a contingent claim which would be the subject of set-off in the customer’s bankruptcy under s 323 Insolvency Act 1986 but it was an abuse of process for the customer to raise the issue after having previously done so in earlier proceedings.
21/5/19
TIMES TRAVEL (UK) LTD v PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES CORPORATION [2019] EWCA Civ 828
Duress does not extend to the use of lawful pressure to achieve a result to which the person exercising pressure believes in good faith it is entitled, and that is so whether or not, objectively speaking, it has reasonable grounds for that belief.