Background: Global Net manages individually managed provident funds, whose members direct the investment of their own savings. Following the “Slice Provident Funds” affair, the Capital Market, Insurance and Savings Authority warned Global Net about agents who had induced members, partly through favorable loans, to invest in unregulated foreign funds associated with those agents or related parties.…
Held: Justice Ruth Ronnen partially granted the application for interim relief and ordered Global Net to deposit the full amount covered by the regulator’s decision with the Court within 30 days. The Court did not decide the merits or express a definitive view on the appeal’s prospects. It relied instead on the balance of convenience, which ordinarily carries greater weight when…
Background: Rujun Jin and Yinzhen Jiang engaged Chunying Yu and Gang Ge in connection with plans to redevelop the plaintiffs’ Strathfield property. A standard-form residential building contract identified GYG (NSW) Pty Ltd as builder and stated a $3.5 million price, but its schedules did not identify the plans, specifications, or detailed scope of work. The plaintiffs…
Held: Parker J held that the GYG building contract was void for uncertainty because it did not identify the work GYG was promising to perform. Its general reference to constructing a two-storey house was insufficient, no plans were identified, and the preliminary plans then available were incomplete and subject to change. Because the contract never had legal effect, there was no…
Background: Paul Little Construction Limited, a domestic building contractor operating in Devon and Cornwall, brought a libel claim over two one-star Google Business reviews posted by Michael Byrne. Byrne had engaged the company to work on his Plymouth home in 2023. His first review alleged extremely poor workmanship, grossly excessive additional charges, substantial expenditure on corrective…
Held: Mr Justice Eardley held that the first review conveyed that the company’s work on Byrne’s house was extremely poor in almost every respect, that its additional charges were grossly excessive, that it had not yet honoured a written promise to fund corrective work, and that it should not be trusted with other customers’ projects. The assessments of workmanship, charges, likely…
Background: A jury convicted chiropractor Benjamin Tekippe of six counts of health care fraud and one count of wire fraud arising from fraudulent reimbursement claims submitted to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. Evidence showed that approximately 93% of the claims billed during the relevant period used the same six service codes, that Tekippe billed…
Held: The Fifth Circuit affirmed. Reviewing for clear error, the court held that the district court’s finding of pervasive fraud was plausible in light of the record as a whole. The evidence included Tekippe’s repeated billing of nearly identical service bundles, unusually high massage-therapy billing, testimony that billed services were not performed, medically necessary, properly supervised, or adequately documented, and evidence…
Background: A health-plan beneficiary sued Fundação CESP for authorization and payment of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), as well as compensation for moral harm. The beneficiary had experienced multiple malignancies, including melanoma, prostate cancer, and a rare, aggressive cancer in the gluteal region.
Held: The Fourth Panel unanimously denied the internal appeal. It held that STJ Precedent 83 barred the challenge to coverage because the state court’s ruling accorded with settled STJ case law requiring health-plan operators to cover procedures forming part of cancer treatment. The court found that IMRT was included in the ANS coverage list and rejected the argument that the plan’s…
Background: The Israel Institute of Certified Public Accountants petitioned the High Court of Justice to require the Minister of Justice and the Commissioner of Insolvency Proceedings and Economic Rehabilitation to explain why the Insolvency and Economic Rehabilitation Regulations (Rules for Forming a List of Trustees), 2021, should not be amended. The Institute argued that qualified accountants…
Held: The Court unanimously dismissed the petition in limine, principally because of laches. Justice Gila Canfy-Steinitz explained that subjective delay was especially pronounced: the Institute had known the relevant legal and factual circumstances from the outset, had participated in the legislative committee’s deliberations, and had a representative on the first public trustee-selection committee, yet offered no explanation for waiting nearly six…
Background: Xinyi Wang and Chi Kit Chao agreed with Chunying Yu and Gang Ge, close friends involved in property development, to redevelop Yu’s property at Concord West. The plaintiffs contributed $800,000 for the redevelopment, while Chao provided more than two years of unpaid work. In return, the defendants promised repayment of the contribution plus an annual…
Held: Parker J held that the parties’ informal 2022 agreement created a fiduciary joint venture of a quasi-partnership character. Although the plaintiffs had a fixed return, lacked joint control, and held no legal interest in the property, the parties had contributed assets and labour to a common undertaking and had placed substantial trust and confidence in one another. The venture ended…
Background: Between September 2020 and April 2024, Christopher Shaw placed approximately £17.5 million under the management and control of Coleman Capital LLP and Matthew McClean. The assets comprised net transfers of £3,669,796.42 intended for Coleman investment funds, securities worth £814,871.64 transferred from Kleinwort Hambros, and £13 million intended for a LIBOR/SONIA or other money-market deposit product.…
Held: HHJ Paul Matthews granted permission to seek summary judgment despite the absence of acknowledgments of service or defences and lifted the statutory stay arising from Coleman Capital’s liquidation for purposes of the application. The court also held that the Gibraltar company had submitted to the English court’s jurisdiction by accepting service through solicitors, participating in injunction proceedings without reserving its…
Background: Prosecutors alleged that Ayman Danaf worked with other defendants to smuggle prohibited goods into the Gaza Strip through a planned operation involving security personnel stationed at border crossings. Danaf allegedly played a central role in planning the smuggling and supplying goods—including cigarettes, mobile phones, computers, and batteries—for substantial financial gain, while knowing that the items…
Held: Justice Khaled Kabub dismissed the appeal and upheld detention pending trial. Although the charge of aiding an enemy in wartime creates a statutory presumption of dangerousness, the Court explained that the charge alone was not decisive, noting that another defendant charged with that offense had been transferred from jail to a less restrictive arrangement. Danaf’s individual circumstances nevertheless justified detention:…
Background: The Capital Markets Company Limited, known as Capco, sought preliminary discovery under r 5.3 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW). Capco’s former senior employee, Paul Sommerin, left the company in March 2025 and began working for the competing NTT Data group in June 2025. Eleven other Capco employees subsequently left for NTT Data…
Held: Scruby J ordered all three defendants to provide preliminary discovery. The Court rejected the contention that the Hong Kong exclusive-jurisdiction provisions required the discovery application itself to be stayed or dismissed. The application was an interlocutory procedure for determining whether Capco should bring substantive proceedings, rather than an adjudication of the parties’ underlying contractual or tortious rights.
Background: Charles and Ivy Limited sells fencing products, while Charles and Ivy Top Limited owns the copyright in 20 professionally produced images of fencing elements and finishes and licenses those rights exclusively to Charles and Ivy Limited. Chelsea Supplies Ltd, a nearby competing retailer, admitted liability after a web developer acting as its agent used the…
Held: The court held that Chelsea Supplies, through its employees and admitted agent, knew or had reason to believe that copyright subsisted in the images. Their knowledge was attributable to the company. The court assessed compensatory damages at £4,000, representing the reasonable fee for a non-exclusive licence covering the actual use of the 20 images for approximately nine to 12 weeks.
Background: Asrorov, an Uzbek citizen, entered Israel as a tourist in 2019 and remained after his visa expired. He and Tushpolatov, an Israeli citizen whom he later married, applied to regularize his status based on their shared life in Israel. Asrorov received a B/1 residence permit through the graduated status process. Tushpolatov gave birth to a…
Held: Justice Daphne Barak-Erez denied leave to appeal without requesting a response. She applied the restrictive standard governing appeals from interlocutory decisions, particularly decisions concerning interim relief. That standard applied with even greater force because the challenged ruling merely refused to reconsider an earlier interim-relief decision.