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Reported Cases:- Madoff Securities International Ltd v Raven & Ors [2013] EWHC 3147 (Comm) (18 October 2013): The case concerned claims for fraudulent and negligent breach of directors’ duties and was described by The Lawyer as one of the top 10 cases of 2013. It was also the second predominantly paperless trial using the Opus 2 Magnum™ technology.- Dany Lions v Bristol Cars [2014] All ER (Comm) 403: Enforcement of best endeavours obligations and “agreements to agree”- Pyrrho Investments Ltd v MWB Property Ltd & Ors [2016] EWHC 256 (Ch) (16 February 2016): The High Court approved the use of Predictive Coding for the first time.- MacInnes v Gross [2017] EWHC 46 (QB): Intention to establish legal relations and certainty of terms.- G4S Plc v G4S Trustees Limited, Sok Wah Lee [2018] EWHC 1749 (ch): Occupational Pension Schemes (Employer Debt) Regulations 2005, Frozen schemes and Pensionable service.- Siddiqi v Taparis Ltd [2019] EWHC 417 (Ch): The High Court considered the procedure for transferring the hearing of an opposed bankruptcy petition under the Practice Direction on Insolvency Proceedings- Coward v Ambrosiadou [2019] EWHC 2105 (Comm) (31 July 2019): A complex, high value contractual claim addressing the issues of standard of proof, issue estoppel and privity in the context of governing law and jurisdiction. The Court also heard privacy applications in relation to certain issues.- Chas A Blatchford and Sons Limited v Brian Stephen Blatchford (the Trustees) and seven others [2019] EWHC 2743 (Ch): Acted for the trustees in an application to the High Court to change the wording of pension scheme rules. The High Court agreed to rectify a drafting error that would have cost the company around £10 million if it had been left uncorrected. This is the first published judgement on rectification in a pension context since the test for rectification was clarified in the Court of Appeal decision in FSHC Group Holdings Ltd v GLAS Trust Corporation Limited [2019] EWCA Civ 1361. The High Court applied the principle that it is the subjective intention that is relevant and an outward expression of agreement is not required.

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