Until the UK’s departure from the European Union and its customs union, United Kingdom trade remedy policy was determined at a European level by the European Commission, applying various European Union regulations. Following the end of the post-Brexit transition period, the United Kingdom now conducts its own independent trade remedy policy.
It is understood this would – if awarded – have been the largest payment of security ever ordered by the English Courts.
Mr Justice Morgan has held that a Romanian and a German, resident in Ibiza, are holding a corporate structure, headed by a UK company, on trust for a bankrupt Israeli billionaire, Mr Eliezer Fishman, for the purpose of concealing his assets.
The judge’s interpretation of each of CPR 17.1(1), CPR 17.2, CPR 17.4(3), CPR 19.4(4) and CPR 19.5(3) all raised novel issues not previously decided by the courts.
Thomas Sharpe QC and Ben Lewy have written a note about the UK’s new system of trade remedies. It explores (i) the statutory framework and (ii) how UK trade remedy policy might differ in practice from the EU’s.
The judgment is a significant application of ‘loss of chance’ principles, which have been the subject of a number of recent authorities, to a complex counterfactual situation.
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