Costs: A fair exchange

Maura McIntosh summarises a currency-sensitive judgment ‘It followed as a matter of logic, the judge said, that where the court made an order in sterling it ought to have power to compensate the receiving party for any exchange rate loss.’When assessing the costs to which a German claimant was entitled on having succeeded in its …
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Novoship (UK) Limited & ors v Nikitin & ors [2014] EWCA Civ 908

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | November 2014 #144

Mr Mikhaylyuk (M), a manager for the first respondent, NOUK, with responsibility for negotiating the charters of vessels owned by companies within the Novoship group, the remaining respondents, owed fiduciary duties to all the respondents. M had arranged a series of schemes by which he defrauded his principals and enriched himself and others by the payment of bribes given to him by those who chartered his principals’ vessels. These schemes included one concerning vessels chartered to companies owned and controlled by Mr Ruperti (R) which R then sub-chartered at substantially higher rates...