Acting for the Representor seeking the assistance of the Royal Court of Jersey on the grounds of the Court's inherent jurisdiction to issue a Letter of Request to the High Court of Justice in England and Wales requesting that it place a Jersey company into English administration pursuant to Section 426 of the Insolvency Act 1986. Applications of this nature require detailed evidence explaining why an English administration is a more appropriate than the insolvency remedies available under Jersey law.

Acting for a Jersey registered company and its directors through which Ukrainian real estate assets were structured and defending an action brought by a division of Citibank. The Representors to this action sought the just and equitable winding-up of the Jersey company on the grounds of: breaches of the shareholders deed and Articles of Association; and breakdown of relationship, loss of trust between company directors and shareholders (pursuant to Article 151 of the Companies (Jersey) Law 1981.

1. Representing various beneficiaries in respect of applications brought pursuant to Article 51 of the Trust (Jersey) Law 1984 seeking direction and approval of the distribution, division and sale of assets settled on trust.

2. Representing the beneficiaries of a trust regarding a claim against the corporate trustee for breach of trust and gross negligence in connection with financial investments made over a ten year period.

Defending an action seeking the recognition and enforcement of a US judgment debt.  The creditor of the judgment debt sought to enforce against the liquid assets settled on trust by the debtor.  Parallel proceedings took place in Cayman and a co-ordinated approach to defend the recognition and enforcement of the judgment debt was required.

Collas Crill successfully defended the Jersey Evening Post (JEP) against a claim for damages for libel brought by two local politicians in respect of a satirical seasonal cartoon commissioned by Broadlands, a firm of estate agents, and published in the JEP. After a three day trial the Royal Court dismissed the action, finding that the publication was not defamatory of the Plaintiffs, and ordered that the Plaintiffs pay the Defendants' costs of the action.

In conjunction with Collas Crill's corporate and commercial and insolvency teams, acting for the company, which conducted investment management and fund services in Jersey. Successfully applied for an order from the court winding the company up on a just and equitable basis.

Instructed by the Joint Liquidators of a Jersey company wound up by the court on a just and equitable basis. Successfully defended an application by creditors/shareholders of the company for the removal of the Joint Liquidators from office (the court developing Jersey law in this area in the process) and obtained an indemnity costs order against the applicants. An application is currently before the court seeking orders bringing the winding up to a conclusion.

Acting for an employee in a successful claim against her former employer, Luxicabs, for unfair dismissal in the Employment Tribunal; enforcing that award and then successfully defending an appeal to the Royal Court brought by Luxicabs against that award/judgment, the Court, in the process, clarifying/confirming that awards of the Employment Tribunal are enforceable through the Jersey Courts.

We are instructed by an Irish client to issue proceedings against a number of entities of a Jersey fiduciary services provider in relation to approximately €18m invested (and lost) by the client. There are a number of other sets of associated proceedings in Jersey, England and Germany.

Represents the defendant in proceedings brought by Bagus Investments Limited. This matter has been to Court five times and involves an allegation that our client took money from a trust which did not belong to him and laundered it through three different jurisdictions, namely Liechtenstein (through two Anstaldts), Switzerland and London. The argument now turns on whether the defendant received the money knowing of a prior breach of trust, or innocent of this. The case has already resulted in a landmark decision on the law of constructive trusts.

Acted in connection with the provision to the Supreme Court of the State of New York of expert opinion on Jersey law concerning the service of process, taking of evidence, disclosure of documents, confidentiality and data protection in connection with proceedings before the New York Supreme Court against, among others, a Jersey-registered banking entity. The assignment required consideration and analysis of involved issues, including concerning private international law, the Hague Service Convention, the Hague Evidence Convention and the so-called 'Norwich Pharmacal' jurisdiction as applied in Jersey.

Nuno Santos-Costa and Danny Le Maistre (in conjunction with the firm's Investment Funds team, Latham & Watkins (London) and Wolf Theiss (Vienna)), act for two Jersey collective investment funds, Airports and Power (or their respective boards) established by Meinl Bank AG, a major Austrian investment bank, in relation to litigation: (1) between Airports and its former investment manager, MAM, a subsidiary of Meinl Bank. This litigation, together with other litigation involving Airports/Power and Meinl Bank, recently settled and CC was involved with the settlement process; and (2) between the funds and a former director, Mr Pirrwitz. This is one of the earliest pieces of investment funds litigation in the Island, significant in terms of the amounts at stake and the complexity of the issues, and the fact that it is cross-jurisdictional.

Our team has been, and continues to be, heavily engaged in advising and assisting the executor of the insolvent estate of the late Duncan Hickman in connection with the estate's administration and the claims of its many and various creditors. The matter is bristling with points, including novel questions of law. For instance, in the absence of settled law on the question the case has given rise to the formulation of a common-law procedure for the administration of insolvent estates.