English judges are known for choosing their words very carefully: In this context, the recent Commercial Court judgment of Mrs Justice Cockerill in the case of Saab v Dangate, Brown and Leighton makes for particularly interesting reading. Although her language is not injudicious, she certainly does not mince her words. In describing how two former […]
Imagine if you ran a small engineering company and decided to open an account with a bank which you used for several years in ordinary commercial business, only to find that its operations were then terminated. Not only that, but your account was frozen as the bank in question was accused by the US government […]
Barristers choose their words carefully when representing their clients in court. And so it proved when Steven Kay QC put his clients’ case in the Commercial Court in April. In his opening statements on behalf of former Metropolitan Police officers, Nigel Brown and Alec Leighton, Kay said: “It doesn’t matter what their motivation was with […]
