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Case review 2019-10-09
NSW Court of Appeal clarifies when aggregation clause may be triggered in a class action
In 2018 the NSW Supreme Court held that a class action brought against Bank of Queensland Limited (BOQ) by Petersen Superannuation Fund Pty Ltd (Petersen) could not be aggregated.
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Case review 2019-10-09
Investment fund administrators: liability for “gross negligence”
Decisions involving liability claims against fund administrators are relatively rare in the English courts, as they are in the courts of offshore financial centres with legal systems based on English common law.
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Case review 2019-10-08
Piercing the privilege: beneficiaries’ right to obtain legal advice provided to a trustee
In a dispute between a beneficiary and a trustee, access to legal advice received by the trustee can be of paramount importance to the beneficiary’s efforts to impeach the trustee’s conduct.
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Case review 2019-10-07
Moulin Global Eyecare: duty of non-executive directors in response to red flags
A recent decision of the Hong Kong High Court, Moulin Global is a rare example of a director of a Bermuda company being held liable to the company for breach of duty and illustrates that courts will hold non-executive directors to account for failure to take action in response to red flags as to the company’s solvency.
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Article 2019-10-03
Getting to grips with global warming
Insurers have been forced into the front line of the fight to stop global warming and climate change and they are beginning to feel uncomfortable and exposed.
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Article 2019-10-03
How climate change is impacting the risk profiles of financial institutions
A look at how board-level considerations of climate change must shift, and the potential consequences if they do not.
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Case review 2019-10-02
Group litigation - into the breach
Claims by data subjects have been labelled “the new PPI”, particularly following the ratification of the right to non-material damages in the GDPR. Worryingly, the latest decision of Lloyd v Google appears to have made it even easier for claimants to bring such claims, particularly en masse.
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Article 2019-09-19
Professions and Financial Lines Brief: latest decisions September 2019
In this briefing, we consider the latest significant court decisions impacting claims arising from professional liability and financial lines policies and products. Issues covered include: heads of terms in mediation; Approved Inspectors’ duties; limitation periods; jurisdiction disputes; business transfer schemes; insolvency exclusions; Ponzi schemes; and solicitors’ duty to point out procedural irregularities.
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Article 2019-09-19
Cryptoassets: FCA publishes Guidance on regulation of cryptoassets
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has recently issued its Final Guidance on Cryptoassets (Guidance PS19/22) to clarify which cryptoassets fall within the UK regulatory perimeter, and in doing so has identified a new category of cryptoasset.
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Article 2019-09-18
FCA: enforcement report 2019
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)’s Enforcement Annual Performance Report was published on 9 July 2019, and complements the FCA's wider Annual Report 2018/19.