Banking & Financial Services

Performance Bonds and the Qatar Financial Centre: Judgment in the QFC Civil and Commercial Court. Paul Fisher acted for the successful joint venture claimants in the court’s first remote hearing.

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Rare successful undue influence defence. Ben Archer is interviewed by LexisPSL in relation to this decision of the Chancery Division handed down at the end of 2019, in which Matthew Bradley successfully defended a claim by an Indian bank after a 13 day trial. The claim against Matthew’s client was based on a personal guarantee and a mortgage entered into 13 years apart. Matthew successfully resisted the claim against his client on the basis of undue influence, obtaining rescission of both the personal guarantee and the mortgage, leaving his client’s share of her assets protected against the Bank’s claim. Read Ben’s article here.

Banking & Finance analysis: Guarantees executed, but unenforceable, as deeds may take effect as simple contracts where supported by sufficient consideration. Written by Ben Archer, barrister, at 4 New Square Chambers. Click here to read the article on LexisNexis.

Banking & Finance analysis: Ben Archer, barrister, at 4 New Square, examines a High Court decision that a guarantee given by the first defendant company director to secure the company's liabilities to the claimant bank was enforceable but a similar guarantee given by the second defendant company director, who was the first defendant's wife, was not enforceable as her execution of it had resulted from his undue influence.