This section contains regular updates to help you stay informed of key developments shaping the banking and finance loan markets. We summarise and analyse the outcomes and consequences of the latest court rulings and legislative developments and provide practical insights to help you understand how evolving case law precedent may impact your legal obligations, liability risks, and business operations.
Real estate finance law in England & Wales
Case Update: Little & Anor v Olympian Homes Ltd (2024)
Court of Appeal puts default interest rate clause to the test in Houssein v London Credit Ltd (2024)
Enforcement of finance transactions – slice and dice approach to illegality
Enforcement of credit facilities: the value of process agents
To assign or not to assign – that’s a real question
Electronic signing in finance transactions
ABT Auto Investments Ltd v Aapico Investment Pte Ltd – importance of agreeing commercially reasonable valuation methods
Re Avanti Communications Ltd (In Administration) (2023): fixed or floating charge – a spectrum of control?
Leon v Kensington Mortgage Company Ltd & Anor (2023) and the concept of subrogation
Sibner Capital Ltd v Jarvis and another [2022] EWHC 3273 (Ch) and the concepts of “good faith” and “absolute discretion”
Case Update: Dassault Aviation SA v Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co Ltd (2024)
UK entry into 2019 Hague Convention
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