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Annabel Strutt, Senior Associate
HFW Litigation – High Court issues barring order under CPR 19.8A
In a recent High Court case, HFW (and a number of other firms) acted on behalf of a group of applicants who were successful in persuading the court to utilise its CPR powers to actively manage complex fraud and insolvency litigation.
The case stems from a fraud committed in 2002 by a twice-convicted fraudster, which led to the bitterly contested Orb and ors v Ruhan litigation (settled in 2016). The hearing itself was the latest in a series of case management conferences aimed at managing ongoing litigation between numerous parties with competing claims to the same group of assets, which came to be disputed following the settlement of the Orb litigation.
