Dorchester Property Management Ltd v BNP Paribas Real Estate Advisory & Property Management UK Ltd

Confidential information Disclosure. The Chancery Division held that, under a deed between the parties, the defendant was responsible for the unauthorised disclosure of information disclosed by it to a third party under a confidential information clause, but not for a non-contravention clause.

Dahlia Fashion Co Ltd v Broadcast Session Ltd and another

Practice Summary judgment. The Chancery Division dismissed the claimant company's application for summary judgment in an action concerning the alleged infringement of the claimant's design rights relating to the sale of clothes by the first defendant company, and made a conditional order requiring the defendants to make a payment into court, failing which part of their defence would be struck out.

MK Airlines Property Ltd (in administration) v Katz and another

Company Administration. The Companies Court of the Chancery Division ruled on an application by joint administrators of a company for declarations in respect of the administration of the company, including, inter alia, whether rent allegedly due to be paid by the company to its then subsidiary, under a sale and leaseback, during the provisional liquidation period was to be treated as an expense of the liquidation.

Sulamérica Cia Nacional de Seguros S.A. and others v Enesa Engenharia S.A. and others

Arbitration Arbitration clause. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, upheld a decision that the proper law of an arbitration agreement contained in insurance policies between the parties had been English law, notwithstanding the express choice of Brazilian law as the law governing the policies and the connection of the policies to Brazil

Shah and another v HSBC Private Bank (UK) Ltd

Bank Account. The Queen's Bench Division, in dismissing the claimants' damages claim, held, inter alia, that there was an implied term in the contract between the parties that permitted the defendant bank to refuse to execute payment instructions in the absence of 'appropriate consent' under of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 where it was suspected a transaction constituted money laundering.

Blair v Chief Constable of Sussex Police

Health and safety at work Work equipment. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, reversed a decision that the defendant police force had not been liable for injuries sustained by the claimant police officer by failing to provide alternative protective motorcycle boots during an advanced training course. The defendant had not discharged the obligation of showing that it had not complied with the requirements of practicability in the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992, .

*Procter & Gamble Co v Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA and another company

Employment Continuity. The Chancery Division held that rights to be considered for early retirement benefits and to accrue further service up to 15 years' service transferred under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, and benefits payable after normal retirement age were old-age benefits, even if paid before age 55.

*Edenwest Ltd v CMS Cameron McKenna

Company Receiver. The Chancery Division allowed the defendant's application for summary judgment in a claim involving professional negligence brought by the claimant company following an administrative receivership, where on the evidence the claimant had no realistic prospect of establishing a duty of care between the parties in either contract or tort.

*Hughmans Solicitors v Central Stream Services Ltd (in Liquidation) and another

Equity Beneficial interest. The Chancery Division held that a company had obtained a beneficial interest in a property and that the subsequent obtaining, by a firm of solicitors, of a final charging order was ineffective to confer priority for its consequential equitable charge over the company's beneficial interest in the property.

Western Bulk Shipowning III A/S v Carbofer Maritime Trading ApS and others

Practice Pre-trial or post-judgment relief. The Commercial Court refused to continue a worldwide freezing injunction against a sub-charterer and sub-sub-charterer on the basis that there was no real risk of an unjustifiable disposal of assets.