Jake Hardy

Feb 26, 2025 | lexology.com | Will Sefton |Carmel Green |Zoe Lettieri |Ruth Lancaster |Cheryl Laird |Georgia Durham | +9 more

It can be tough for busy lawyers to find enough time to service clients, make it safely through the regulation obstacle course, win new work and keep up-to-date with developments, but we've got you covered! Welcome to our February 2025 edition of our Lawyers Liability & Regulatory Update, in which we highlight the last month's key developments affecting lawyers and the professional risks they face.

Mar 20, 2024 | lexology.com | Jake Hardy |Tom Hibbert

There was a wave of negative press about commercial real estate funds during the course of 2023. The higher interest rate environment and the pandemic’s economic and social legacy has stressed the sector. This was reflected in suspensions of redemptions by funds including BlackRock UK Property Fund and Blackstone’s (US) Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, and the closure of the M&G Property Portfolio fund.

Dec 11, 2023 | lexology.com | Sinead Westaway |Jake Hardy

FactsDecisionCommentIn the latest of a flurry of decisions on anti-suit injunctions in support of arbitrations, the High Court has granted an anti-suit injunction and anti-anti-suit injunction against defendants who had commenced proceedings in Russia pursuant to article 248 of the Russian Commercial Procedure Code (RCPC).

Oct 30, 2023 | lexology.com | Jake Hardy |Tim Potts

FactsDecisionCommentIn an important judgment in Hotel Portfolio II UK Ltd & Anor v Ruhan & Anor(1) the Court of Appeal established that, where a fiduciary commits two closely connected breaches of duty, one of which gives rise to a profit and one of which causes a loss, a claim for equitable compensation against either the fiduciary or a dishonest assistant cannot be determined solely by reference to the loss and will involve an exercise in setting-off the profit against the loss.

Aug 30, 2023 | dx.doi.org | Jake Hardy |Sai Shruthi Murali |Calum Gordon |Paul Hume

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