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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 1966 (Ch)
Case No: BL-2021-002235
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES
BUSINESS LIST (ChD)
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Date: 1 August 2025
Before :
HHJ PAUL MATTHEWS
(sitting as a Judge of the High Court)
Between :
KLOTHO BRANDS LIMITED (FORMERLY KNOWN AS LION/HEAVEN UK II LIMITED) | Claimant/ Applicant |
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KEVIN-GERALD STANFORD (FORMERLY KNOWN AS KEVIN GERALD STANFORD) | Defendant/ Respondent |
Ben Valentin KC and Ellen Tims (instructed by Proskauer Rose (London) LLP) for the Applicant
The Respondent did not appearand was not represented
Hearing date: 23 July 2025
This judgment was handed down remotely at 10:30 am on 1 August 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archive
HHJ Paul Matthews :
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- INTRODUCTION
- The trial of the Part 8 claim
- The order of 5 April 2022
- The present application
- PROCEDURE
- The respondent’s application for a stay
- The family trust’s application for a stay
- Whether to proceed in the respondent’s absence
- THE CONTEMPT APPLICATION
- Findings
- The law
- Contempt: procedure
- Contempt: substance
- The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
- Submissions
- The respondent
- Discussion
- Dispensing with personal service
- Service and joinder
- The impact of “false evidence”
- Judicial signature
- Was there any breach of the order?
- Conclusions