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Exclusive The Expert Witness in the United Kingdom
  • Article
  • 07 Aug 2023
  • Andrew Strickland
UK Courts place high expectations on expert witnesses in all disciplines: the privilege of giving opinions carries with it a weighty responsibility. Over the last twenty or more years the judiciary voiced, ever more pointedly, the heavy duties that come with the potentially persuasive powers of expert witnesses.
Exclusive Valuation Experts and The Nature of Personal Goodwill – The case of CSB 123 Limited and Caroline Stanbury [2021] EWHC 2506
  • Article
  • 07 Aug 2023
  • Andrew Strickland
The case of Caroline Stanbury leaving the Gift Library and the liquidators bringing a claim against her.
Exclusive Reports on an Industrial Scale – Bux and GMC [2021] EWHC 762
  • Article
  • 07 Aug 2023
  • Andrew Strickland
The renowned Judge Mostyn heard a case involving an appeal against the removal of a doctor from the Medical Register.
Exclusive Proprietary trading and market making – valuation challenges: the case of G and T
  • Article
  • 29 Mar 2023
  • Andrew Strickland
How should a business engaged in trading in the markets be valued? This was the question faced by the Court in the anonymised case of G and T.
Exclusive OG and AG [2020] EWFC 52
  • Article
  • 29 Mar 2023
  • Andrew Strickland
This case was heard before the redoubtable Mr Justice Mostyn; at its heart was the valuation of a UK ducting business.
Exclusive The valuation of special share classes - the worked example group exposure draft
  • Article
  • 23 Mar 2023
  • Andrew Strickland
The Worked Example Group comprises valuation professionals who facilitate the development of examples for possible agreement with the UK tax authorities.
Exclusive Burnden holdings part 2
  • Article
  • 11 Oct 2022
  • Andrew Strickland
Two experts, bruised by various criticisms, were required to value a company at the time that it had been spun out of a group. Immediately thereafter a power company, SSE, a listed energy company, had paid £6 million for a stake of 30%.
Exclusive Burnden holdings part 1
  • Article
  • 11 Oct 2022
  • Andrew Strickland
A successful business involved primarily in the supply of conservatories was also successful in defending itself in expensive litigation brought by another company. Despite this success the claimant failed to pay more than £1m of the costs awarded against them. This placed severe financial pressure on Burnden Limited.
Exclusive 5 Tips to Get Accurate Business Valuations (from the Specialists at Valuation Platform, Valutico)
  • Article
  • 10 Oct 2022
  • Valutico
Valutico is the world’s leading all-in-one valuation platform, developed by data scientists and valuation experts. Valutico’s specialists noticed some common errors that occur when practitioners are conducting business valuations, and they’ve summarized five mistakes to avoid below.
Exclusive UTB and Sheffield United Limited [2019] EWHC 2322
  • Article
  • 04 Oct 2022
  • Andrew Strickland
The valuation of football clubs can be devilishly difficult: for many such clubs the owners are driven by passion or by the need to own a trophy.
Exclusive 116 Cardamon Limited and MacAlister
  • Article
  • 04 May 2022
  • Andrew Strickland
Claimed breaches of warranties in share purchase agreement - the case of 116 Cardamon Limited and MacAlister
Exclusive Another meal, cooked to a familiar recipe
  • Article
  • 04 May 2022
  • Andrew Strickland
Patel, Venkataraman and Others v HMRC is the third in a series, dealing with the abuse of gift aid tax relief for the purposes of reducing income tax liabilities. The previous cases decided by the Tax Tribunal were N Green v HMRC and J Netley v HMRC. In the previous cases the settlements appeared, to my eyes at least, surprisingly generous to the taxpayers.
Exclusive George v McCarthy re Goss Interactive Limited [2019] EWHC 2939 (Ch)
  • Article
  • 04 May 2022
  • Andrew Strickland
Shareholders at war - the case of Richard George v Robert McCarthy and Goss Interactive Limited.
Exclusive The Case of FW v FH [2019] EWHC 1338
  • Article
  • 18 Oct 2021
  • Andrew Strickland, Consultant, Scrutton Bland
This divorce case gives an insight into the ways in which deal-based entitles should be valued.
Exclusive Michel and Michel [2019] EWHC 1378
  • Article
  • 18 Oct 2021
  • Andrew Strickland, Consultant, Scrutton Bland
Helmut Michel was born in Germany of Jewish parents; following the advice of a far-seeing uncle, Leopold Kahn, and furnished with a loan from him of £400, he escaped the horrors of the Shoah which were to overwhelm Germany’s Jewish community, by moving to the UK in 1931.
Exclusive Riva Properties Limited and Foster and Partners [2017] EWHC 2574 (TCC)
  • Article
  • 18 Oct 2021
  • Andrew Strickland, Consultant, Scrutton Bland
The case of Riva Properties related to alleged failings by the world-renowned architects, Foster and Partners, in respect of a Five-Star hotel to be built close to Heathrow Airport by a relatively modestly sized property developer, Mr Dhanoa.
Exclusive Re X and Y (Delay: Professional Conduct of Expert) - EWHC B9 [2019]
  • Article
  • 11 Jun 2021
  • Andrew Strickland, Scrutton Bland
In this case the Judge was moved to set down in the public record his findings relating to a medical expert.
Exclusive Winchester County Court
  • Article
  • 11 Jun 2021
  • Andrew Strickland, Scrutton Bland
This case shines an unforgiving, clinical light on the complex duties of experts in court. For those of us engaged in contentious valuation it is an unflattering reminder of our duties and responsibilities, including the need for deep courtesy, one to another.
Exclusive Dinglis Properties Limited - EWHC 1664 [2019]
  • Article
  • 11 Jun 2021
  • Andrew Strickland
Andreas Dinglis came to the UK from Cyprus; he was clearly someone with a strong entrepreneurial drive from his earliest years. In the UK he initially ran a clothing manufacturing business, but later moved into the development of bed and breakfast hotels.
Exclusive Impact of Covid-19 on valuations and the valuation profession
  • Article
  • 30 Dec 2020
  • IVSC
As the world continues to grapple with the health and economic crises brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, professional valuers are playing a key role in helping to stabilise, and bring confidence to business and financial markets.
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