The scenario is depressingly familiar: an individual or company intends to make payment to a genuine payee, but is tricked – often by someone hacking their email – into authorising a payment to an account in fact controlled by a scammer. The industry name given to such diverted payment frauds is Authorised Push Payment Scams. […]
Category: Legal Update
Legal Advice Privilege
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (the EAT) in X v Y Ltd (UKEAT/0261/17/JOJ) has ruled that an email of advice sent from one lawyer to another that contained legal advice on the dismissal of an employee is not subject to legal advice privilege due to the iniquity principle. Background The Claimant was employed by Y Ltd […]
Interpretation of Contracts
In most commercial litigation there will be an issue as to what a contract means. So the interpretation or construction of contracts is a subject that preoccupies clients, their lawyers and the courts. The legal rules on the interpretation of contracts are relatively well settled, but it is a subtle art in which judicial mood […]