Vasanti Selvaratnam QC practices in all aspects of international commercial litigation and arbitration, regularly handling force majeure disputes, jurisdiction issues and all forms of
interim urgent relief, including freezing orders and anti-suit injunctions.
Not exact matches
Other than an application to hold the ring for a short period in a very
urgent situation, it is difficult to envisage any circumstances in which the public body should not be given the chance to make representations before substantive
interim relief is granted.
We are also regularly instructed in high - profile challenges to the decisions of public authorities and regulators, including claims which require
urgent applications for
interim relief, and which involve complex issues of international, EU or human rights law in the commercial sphere.
Intellimedia Systems Limited v Richards Acting for the Defendants on a claim for breach of fiduciary duty relating to an internet protocol tv business and responding to
urgent interim applications for the appointment of a receiver and freezing order - type
relief.
Cases proceeding in arbitration but advising and appearing also in a number of associated High Court applications including those for
urgent interim injunctive
relief; section 30 and 32 Arbitration Act jurisdiction disputes; section 68 and s69 Arbitration Act 1996 challenges / appeals).
Michael has also acted for contractors and subcontractors in respect of various contractual disputes, including seeking (and obtaining)
urgent interim relief from the High Court, and has appeared as junior counsel in the Court of Appeal of New Zealand.
The Competition Appeal Tribunal (Peter Freeman QC) has rejected an
urgent application by Flynn Pharma for
interim relief against the CMA's decision that Flynn should reduce its prices of Phenytoin capsules with effect from Monday.
He appears regularly in the Business, TCC, Insolvency and Companies lists of the Business and Property Courts of England and Wales on both interlocutory matters, including applications for
urgent interim relief, and at trial, and in the Court of Appeal.
In
urgent cases, instructions can be accepted and dealt with at very short notice, including outside of normal business hours, especially when
interim relief is sought.
«This judgment may make it harder still for complainants to persuade the court to assist them in cases where
urgent interim relief is sought,» he says.