Jannika Glendon
Jannika Glendon focuses her practice on dispute resolution issues, including contested estates, acting for high net worth individuals in private trust disputes, as well as commercial dispute resolution and arbitration.
Shareholder Rule Gets Short Shrift
By Kimberley Smith and Jannika Glendon on Jan 7, 2025
Posted In United Kingdom
Derived from 19th century case law, the general school of thought has been that a company cannot assert privilege against its own shareholder, save in relation to documents that came into existence for the purpose of hostile litigation against that shareholder (the so-called “Shareholder Rule”). In a judgment dated 27 November 2024, Mr Justice Picken...
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English High Court Unravels National Iranian Oil Company’s Attempt to Shield £100M London Property from Enforcement of Arbitral Award
By Michael Darowski, Campbell Herbert and Jannika Glendon on Apr 23, 2024
Posted In Arbitration, Court Judgment, Oil & Gas, United Kingdom
The English High Court has ordered the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) to transfer a high-value London property to Crescent Gas Corporation Limited (CGC) in satisfaction of a US$2.4 billion arbitral award in favour of CGC against NIOC. The Court found that NIOC’s eleventh-hour transfer of the property to its closely linked Iranian pension fund...
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