CL-2022-000456 - [2025] EWHC 1614 (Comm)

The other significant category comprised documents put to one of the Claimants’ witnesses, Mr Andrei Fokin, in the course of his cross-examination. These documents were at lines 27 to 32 of Tecnimont’s schedule. Central to all of them was a single document at line 29 – a spreadsheet of cash balances, created in March 2022.

The financial information in this spreadsheet had been the subject of an appreciable number of questions put to Mr Fokin. It related to the cash balances in various bank accounts, associated with a number of different entities, which were arguably relevant to some of matters covered by Mr Fokin in his witness statement as to events in early 2022.

I cannot see that information regarding the state of these cash balances in March 2022 can still be considered confidential in June 2025.

One part of the spreadsheet sets out the account numbers for all the relevant bank accounts. These details, by contrast, remain sensitive and confidential even now – at least to the relevant entities.

The various account numbers should be redacted. Once redacted in this limited manner, the spreadsheet is not confidential and should not be subject to the confidentiality club.

In relation to the other documents in this category, the Claimants’ case as to their confidentiality was entirely parasitic on the confidentiality of the spreadsheet. None of the other documents in this category requires redaction. None of them is confidential.