Tenet’s founder, Arun Chauhan, has been shortlisted in The Law Society Excellence Awards 2020 in the ‘Sole Practitioner of the Year’ category.
The Sole Practitioner of the Year award celebrates innovative and pioneering practitioners, who provide exceptional solutions and foster unique ways of working within the constantly evolving industry.
We were instructed by a rugby star’s agent to help provide a strategy to obtain a more beneficial contract for his client. The star’s contract was due for renewal and negotiations between the club and the star were becoming exacerbated. We provided a breakdown of all available options to their client, including potential transfers. We helped review the stars current contract, provided commercial advice as to how certain “pressure points” could be utilised and “out of the box” thinking to ensure that their client obtained a better contract, whilst still ensuring all options were “on the table”.
By working with the agent, exploring all possible scenarios, explaining the issues that they faced and how they could be overcome, the agent was able to negotiate a market leading contract and secure the future of his client for what would be the rest of his career.
We were instructed by a high-profile individual who, as his previous trusted advisor, wanted us to help him navigate a commercial minefield to implement a business idea he had. The client wanted to draw on our commercial acumen, expertise in spotting and avoiding problems and our ability to introduce them to market leaders in a number of areas critical to their business idea.
We were entrusted to build a market leading team for our client to ensure that their dream could become a reality. By working collaboratively and having access to specialist teams in niche areas, we ensured our client received a seamless, efficient and cost-effective service.
We were instructed by an individual who had been accused of obtaining and threatening to disseminate highly confidential information. As the claimant believed the breach and associated risk to them was significant, they issued injunctive proceedings.
To protect the client’s position as much as possible, we investigated the matter thoroughly and robustly defended their position at a number of court hearings. The client’s legal team was also bolstered by instructing a one of the leading barristers in the field of breach of confidence.
Through robust representation, the parties reached an amicable settlement. This allowed our client to focus on other pressing interests in their life.
The principle of legal advice privilege came under scrutiny by the Court of Appeal at the start of this year in Civil Aviation Authority v R (on the application of Jet2.com Limited) [2020] EWCA Civ 35. We look in detail at the principles established in this case and how these were applied by the court in the recent case of A v B and the FRC [2020] EWHC 1492.
On 15 July 2020, the Supreme Court handed down a historic judgment which overturned nearly 20 years of precedent relating to the principle of “reflective loss”. The judgment is welcome news for victims of fraud who might previously have been prevented from bringing a claim on the basis that the right of action of a company which had also been wronged may take priority.
Fraud, or more commonly referred to as “cheating”, in sport is nothing new. It is an age-old problem that has never been, and likely never will, be eradicated. It spans all platforms of sport; it doesn’t discriminate. Whether it is cycling (Lance Armstrong), the Olympics (Russia’s systematic doping), Cricket (the Australian “sandpaper-gate”), Rugby Union (“bloodgate”) or football (insider betting), all have fallen victim at one point or another. This time it is motorsport and the ABB FIA Formula E (“Formula E”) Audi racing driver Daniel Abt that steals the headlines.
In the recent High Court case of Ms. Francesca Elu v Floorweald Limited [2020] EWHC 1222 (QB), the court was required to consider the Supreme Court judgment in Takhar v Gracefield Developments Limited [2019] UKSC 13.
In the recent case of Broomhead v National Westminster Bank plc and another [2020] EWHC 1005 (Ch) the High Court was asked to consider the grounds for setting aside a previous judgment on the basis of fraudulent conduct.
