CA-2024-001254 - [2025] EWCA Civ 961

Fecha: 29-Jul-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWCA Civ 961

Case No: CA-2024-001254

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)

ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

BUSINESS LIST (ChD)

Stuart Isaacs KC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge

[2024] EWHC 735 (Ch)

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 29 July 2025

Before :

LORD JUSTICE ARNOLD

LORD JUSTICE NUGEE

and

SIR LAUNCELOT HENDERSON

Between :

AKINTUNDE GIWA

Claimant / Respondent

- and -

(1) JNFX LTD

Defendant/

Appellant

(2) ASHAY MERVYN

(3) JNFX NIGERIA LTD

(4) FRONTIER FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGIES LTD

Defendants

Catherine Addy KC and Joseph Wigley (instructed by Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP) for the Appellant

Matthew Bradley KC and Rumen Cholakov (instructed by Peters & Peters LLP)for

the Respondent

Hearing dates: 20 and 21 May 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 29 July 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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Lord Justice Nugee: