KB-2023-004010 - [2025] EWHC 2689 (KB)
Fecha: 17-Oct-2025
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Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Before :
MR JUSTICE FREEDMAN
Between :
MEX GROUP WORLDWIDE LIMITED | Claimant |
- and – | |
(1) STEWART OWEN FORD (2) BRIAN ROBERT CORMACK (3) COLM DENIS SMITH (4) MICHAEL GOLLITS (5) MELVILLE CONSULTING PARTNERS LIMITED (6) MELVILLE CONSULTANCY LIMITED (7) REGAL CONSULTANCY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (8) CSM SECURITIES SARL (9) VON DER HEYDT & CO AG (10) VON DER HEYDT INVEST SA (11) MEX SECURITIES SARL (12) VIACHESLAV VOLOTOVSKIY | Defendants |
Thomas Grant KC and Caley Wright (instructed by Quillon Law LLP) for the Claimant
Dr Julian Roberts (instructed by William Sturges LLP) for the Third and Eighth Defendants
Hearing dates: 18, 20 June and 29 July 2025
Judgment handed down in draft: 26 September 2025
Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on Friday 17 October 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.
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- Heading
- MR JUSTICE FREEDMAN
- II Background
- III The facts
- IV Penalty for contempt
- V Cross undertaking as to damages: the evidence
- VI The law relating to an application for enforcement of a cross-undertaking as to damages
- VII The law relating to applications for fortification of injunctions
- VIII Discussion: causation points
- IX Discussion: discretion points
- X Disposal of application for inquiry as to damages
- XI Costs
- XII MGWL’s submission as to costs
- XIII Submission as to costs of Mr Smith and CSM
- XIV Discussion about the incidence of costs
- XV Should the orders made by Ellenbogen J and Morris J stand despite the abandonment of the action?
- XVI The reserved costs in respect of the Contempt Application
- Conclusions