Stanford Asset Holdings Ltd and another v AfrAsia Bank Ltd

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
JudgeSir Nicholas Underhill
Judgment Date10 October 2023
Neutral Citation[2023] UKPC 35
CourtPrivy Council
Year2023
Docket NumberPrivy Council Appeal No 0011 of 2023
    • This document is available in original version only for vLex customers

      View this document and try vLex for 7 days
    • TRY VLEX

Start Your 3-day Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your 3-day Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your 3-day Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your 3-day Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your 3-day Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your 3-day Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex
3 cases
  • Blythe v The Commissioner of an Garda Síochána
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 23 October 2023
    ...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......
  • Linda May Green v CT Group Holdings Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 11 December 2023
    ...(“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......
  • Seismotech IP Holdings Inc. v. Apple Canada Inc.,
    • Canada
    • Federal Court (Canada)
    • 7 December 2023
    ...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
  • High Court Refuses Norwich Pharmacal Disclosure Order In Aid Of Foreign Proceedings
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 30 January 2024
    ...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......
  • Norwich Pharmacal Relief In Multi-jurisdictional Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 12 January 2024
    ...[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......
  • Norwich Pharmacal Relief: Expansion Of Conditions To Include "Proper Purpose"
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 2 January 2024
    ...[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......