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Contentious Commentary - June 2014

10 June 2014

The latest edition of "Contentious Commentary", a newsletter that provides a summary of recent developments in litigation. The newsletter is produced by lawyers in the litigation and dispute resolution practice at Clifford Chance.

This edition covers the following key issues:

  • When benefits accruing from breach can be disregarded
  • Contradiction can be necessary to prevent estoppel
  • Liability for passing on someone else's information
  • Parent company not liable to subsidiary's employees
  • Tracing need not be in strict chronological order
  • Wholly-owned company not subject to freezing injunction against its shareholder
  • Damages under the undertaking in damages are contract based
  • Collateral use of disclosed documents requires cogent reasons
  • Applications before expiry of time are not Mitchelled
  • Wikileaks admissible in evidence

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