Stanford Asset Holdings Ltd and another v AfrAsia Bank Ltd
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Judge | Sir Nicholas Underhill |
Judgment Date | 10 October 2023 |
Neutral Citation | [2023] UKPC 35 |
Court | Privy Council |
Year | 2023 |
Docket Number | Privy Council Appeal No 0011 of 2023 |
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Blythe v The Commissioner of an Garda Síochána
...a disclosure order was recently approved by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Stanford Asset Holdings Ltd v AfAsia Bank Ltd [2023] UKPC 35, para 36 (per Sir Nicholas 11 Including defamation. The first reported case in which a disclosure order was made in England and Wales in ai......
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Linda May Green v CT Group Holdings Ltd
...(“the Overall Justice Condition”). This was approved by the Privy Council in Stanford Asset Holdings Ltd v Afrasia Bank Ltd (Mauritius) [2023] UKPC 35. 19 For reasons set out below, I do not think this formulation adequately takes into account issues that arise where the issues go beyond d......
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Seismotech IP Holdings Inc. v. Apple Canada Inc.,
...was lacking. In addition, Seismotech relied on a number of British cases, including Stanford Asset Holdings Ltd v AfrAsia Bank Ltd, [2023] UKPC 35 [Stanford Asset Holdings]. In that case, at paragraph 36, the Privy Council stated that a “good arguable case” was needed to issue......
3 firm's commentaries
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High Court Refuses Norwich Pharmacal Disclosure Order In Aid Of Foreign Proceedings
...in Collier v Bennett [2020] EWHC 1884 (and recently approved by the Privy Council in Stanford Asset Holdings Ltd v Afrasia Bank Ltd [2023] UKPC 35 - discussed here). Broadly, that test requires (i) there is a good arguable case that some legally recognised wrong has been committed against t......
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Norwich Pharmacal Relief In Multi-jurisdictional Cases
...[2023] EWHC 3168 (Comm) [18]. That summary was adopted by the Privy Council in Stanford Asset Holdings Ltd v Afrasia Bank Ltd (Mauritius) [2023] UKPC 35, which we discussed in our previous article "English Court will grant civil remedies notwithstanding parallel criminal 2. Ibid [19]. 3. Ib......
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Norwich Pharmacal Relief: Expansion Of Conditions To Include "Proper Purpose"
...[2023] EWHC 3168 (Comm) [18]. That summary was adopted by the Privy Council in Stanford Asset Holdings Ltd v Afrasia Bank Ltd (Mauritius) [2023] UKPC 35, which we discussed in our previous article "English Court will grant civil remedies notwithstanding parallel criminal 2 Ibid [19]. 3 Ibid......