The sprawling and complex cross-border fraud litigation being pursued by the Joint Liquidators (Paul Atkinson and Glyn Mummery of FRP Advisory) of Grosvenor Property Developers Ltd (‘the Company’) has reached a significant milestone. The counsel team (instructed by Alyson Reilly and Séamas Gray of gunnercooke) led by Rory Brown (and including Martin Young, Nora Wannagat, and Andrew Shipley) has been involved in over 25 heavily contested hearings (in the High Court in London and in the CFI, DIFCC, Dubai) in the last 13 months.

Yuzu v Selvathiraviam [2020] EWHC 1209 (ChD)

Yuzu v Selvathiraviam [2020] EWHC 1539 (Ch) and Yuzu v Selvathiraviam [2020] EWHC 1694 (Ch)

Further to his findings in an earlier judgment that Mr Selvathiraviam (‘R’) had deliberately breached the asset disclosure provisions in a freezing injunction, Mann J imposed an 18 month sentence on R, unconditionally suspended for 21 days. He commented as follows: