Finance, insolvency, recoveries and sales alerts

  • 19.06.08 - Banking Update: report and review on recent cases

    Wragge & Co's banking and finance experts bring you the latest on the cases and issues affecting the lending industry.

  • 21.05.08 - Banking update: report and review on recent cases

    Wragge & Co's Banking and Finance experts bring you the latest on the cases and issues affecting the lending industry.

  • 13.05.08 - Winning and losing under Part 36

    "Beating" a Part 36 offer will not necessarily lead to a costs order in your favour as seen in Carver v BAA. Read our analysis of this potentially far reaching decision and consider our action points when reviewing all Part 36 offers.

  • 01.05.08 - It's still my property!

    In Schwarzschild v Harrods Ltd, the court confirmed that for a claim in conversion to arise, there has to be both an unequivocal demand for delivery up and an unequivocal refusal to do so.

  • 25.04.08 - High Court ruling on bank charges

    The High Court has handed down judgment in the first stage of the OFT's challenge to the legality and fairness of bank charges. For all you need to know on the judgment, read Wragge & Co's expert analysis.

  • 23.04.08 - Banking update: report and review on recent cases

    The proposed new general pre-action protocol, traceability of payments, receivers and foreign debts, unfair relationships and the Consumer Credit Act and the Uniform Rules for Collection; Wragge & Co's Banking & Finance experts bring you the latest news.

  • 18.03.08 - Banking Update: report and review on recent cases

    Wragge & Co's banking and finance experts bring you the latest on the cases and issues affecting the lending industry.

  • 21.02.08 - Banking update
    Mortgage indemnity guarantees, fraudulent valuations, adverse possession and valid demands for repayment; Wragge & Co's Banking and Finance experts bring you the latest on the cases affecting the lending industry.
  • 23.01.08 - Banking update: report and review on recent cases
    Personal liability of a director, transfer of property, breach of freezing orders, joint liability and promissory estoppel; Wragge & Co's Banking and Finance experts bring you the latest on the cases affecting the industry.
  • 04.12.07 - Seller beware!

    The Court of Appeal has held that there's no inconsistency between a simple retention of title clause and an implied, or even express, right of a buyer to sell on the goods before paying the seller.

  • 26.10.07 - Claiming compound interest
    A House of Lords decision has widened the circumstances in which compound, as opposed to simple, interest can be claimed where such a claim has not been contractually provided for.
  • 25.10.07 - Banking Bulletin
    The defendants, as shareholders, guaranteed the liabilities of their company under a supply contract with the claimant.
  • 01.08.07 - Recovering the cost of mediation
    Recovery of costs is always an important issue. Severe cost sanctions can be ordered by the court if a party unreasonably refuses to engage in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes. Mediation, as a form of ADR, has been around for some time.
  • 20.07.07 - Banking Bulletin - July
  • 19.07.07 - VFS Financial Services (UK) Limited v Euro Auctions & Others Limited [2007] EWHC 1492
    This is a case about the correct measure of damages payable to a finance company whose goods have been unlawfully converted by a third party.
  • 18.07.07 - Volkswagen Financial Services (UK) Limited v George Ramage
    This was an appeal by Mr Ramage in which he successfully challenged the enforceability of a term in a hire agreement that stipulated the amount the hirer was liable to pay in the event of a repudiatory breach of the agreement.
  • 01.06.07 - Asset finance case update and news
  • 21.05.07 - Banking Bulletin