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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 2367 (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: 17 September 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: 5 September 2025
This judgment was handed down remotely at 3 pm on 17 September 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 respondent’s further applications
- Dealing with the applications
- The application of 13 August 2025
- The application of 4 September 2025
- Sentencing in the absence of the respondent
- The respondent’s further application
- The position of the applicant in the contempt application
- Discussion
- Conclusion on the application
- Sentencing decision
- The respondent’s position
- The mental element in contempt
- Purging contempt
- Starting point
- Aggravation and mitigation
- Decision in principle
- Fine?
- Suspended sentence?
- Conclusions