Banking Litigation Notes

Marshall v Barclays Bank plc: High court strikes out claim for mis-selling of an interest rate hedging product on the basis of a pre-existing settlement agreement

Gary Ronald Marshall v Barclays Bank plc [2015] EWHC 2000 (QB) concerns an application by Barclays Bank plc ("Barclays") to strike out or obtain …

Banking Litigation Update

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP contributes chapters to the recently published first edition of the Securities Litigation Review

The Securities Litigation Review is described in the Editor's Preface as a "guided introduction to the international varieties of enforcing rights …

Broker breached fiduciary duty by not disclosing sum of commission received

The Court of Appeal has held that a credit broker was in a fiduciary relationship with borrowers, with the consequence that the broker breached its …

Bank exercising a right of forced sale did not have a duty to obtain the best price reasonably obtainable

(1) Rosserlane Consultants Ltd, (2) Swinbrook Developments Ltd v Credit Suisse International [2015] EWHC 384 (Ch) The High Court has found that a Bank …

Drafting contracts: key lessons from 2014

In this briefing we look at the lessons to be learnt from some of the key English contract law cases of 2014. We have given a brief summary of each …