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Triple Point v PTT: UK Supreme Court also interprets a contractual cap on liability

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The UK Supreme Court recently handed down a highly anticipated judgment on the interpretation of clauses which pertain to liquidated damages and limitations on a contractor’s liability for damages. Most notably, the Supreme...more

Bracewell LLP

Liquidated Damages in the Context of a Termination: Supreme Court Reverts to the Status-Quo

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The English Supreme Court has delivered its long-awaited judgment in Triple Point Technology, Inc v PTT Public Company Ltd [2021] UKSC 29. Although the case concerns a commodity trading software system, it has broad...more

White & Case LLP

UK Supreme Court upholds first successful claim for breach of the "Quincecare" duty financial institutions owe their customers

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In Singularis Holdings Ltd (In Official Liquidation) v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd ([2019] UKSC 50), the Supreme Court upheld the first successful claim in negligence by a customer of a financial institution for breach...more

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Further encouragement from the English courts to pursue international disputes there

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The recent decision of the English Supreme Court in Vedanta Resources PLC v Lungowe and others provides a further example of the willingness of the English courts to assume jurisdiction over cases which have very little...more

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Vedanta: UK Supreme Court takes the “straitjacket” off claims against parent companies in the English Courts

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On 10 April 2019, the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment in Vedanta Resources PLC and anor. v Lungowe and others [2019] UKSC 20; a long awaited decision on parent company liability and the jurisdiction of English...more

A&O Shearman

Negligent valuations and refinancing: a lesson for lenders on recovery

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The Supreme Court unanimously held that a lender was only entitled to recover new money, which had been advanced as part of a loan refinancing, in its claim against a negligent valuer (whose report it relied upon in entering...more

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Professional advisors not liable for client’s poor commercial judgment

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In a landmark decision, BPE Solicitors & anr v Hughes-Holland (in substitution for Gabriel) [2017] UKSC 21, the Supreme Court provided guidance on the application and effect of the well-known, but often misunderstood, ‘SAAMCO...more

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