Keystone Law Isle of Man dispute resolution lawyers and solicitors in Douglas

Our Isle of Man litigation team specialises in advising on commercial and trust disputes, enforcement and insolvency proceedings, and professional negligence claims. Our focus is on resolving claims as quickly and painlessly and in the most straightforward and cost-effective way possible. If litigation is inevitable, our advice will ensure that you have the most effective representation available.

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Arbitration
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Commercial and trust disputes
Contractual disputes
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Advised numerous clients on freezing injunctions, including ancillary disclosure orders, and Norwich Pharmacal Orders.
Registered and enforced numerous foreign judgments, including a judgment in the sum of £90m.
Acted for numerous individuals and entities in recovering substantial debts.
Advised a shareholder in a claim against three fellow shareholders (who were also holding the shares in trust for the client) for damages in the sum of £500,000 as a result of breach of the shareholders’ agreement, and fraudulently breaching their fiduciary duties and trust by manipulating the valuation of the client’s shares following his resignation from the company. The matter reached a successful conclusion following a lengthy mediation.
Acted for a defendant in high-profile complex fraud/breach of directors’ duties proceedings alleging fraud against the billionaire director of a publicly listed Indian company with damages claimed in excess of £350m.
Advised a company in a claim against its former directors and corporate service provider as a result of a number of fraudulent payments to one of the former directors amounting to over £10m. Also advised the company’s subsidiary in a claim against one of the main banks seeking to set aside a number of charges granted by the former directors to secure a loan from the bank to a former director as part of the former directors’ attempts to disguise the origins of the fraudulent payments.
Advised publicly listed claimant companies in complex fraud proceedings in the Isle of Man arising from an alleged Eastern European real estate investment fraud with a claim value in excess of €25m, including negligence claims against the directors and auditors.
Advised numerous individuals and entities in quasi-fraud claims.
Acted for the defendant in high-profile complex fraud/breach of directors’ duties proceedings alleging fraud against the billionaire director of a publicly listed Indian company with damages claimed in excess of £350m.
Successfully represented a firm of advocates in defending a claim brought against it for damages in the sum of £2m, as a result of an alleged breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and negligence.
Advised a shareholder in a claim against three of his fellow shareholders (who were also holding the shares in trust for my client) for damages in the sum of £500,000.00 as a result of breach of the shareholder’s agreement, and fraudulently breaching their fiduciary duties and trust by manipulating the valuation of my client’s shares following his resignation from the company. This matter reached a successful conclusion following a lengthy mediation.
Advised a company in a claim against its former directors and corporate service provider as a result of a number of fraudulent payments to one of the former directors amounting to over £10m. Also advised the company’s subsidiary in a claim against one of the main banks seeking to set aside a number of charges granted by the former directors to secure a loan from the bank to a former director as part of the former directors’ attempts to disguise the origins of the fraudulent payments.
Advised the executors of a billionaire’s estate on an application to seek the court’s direction on the ownership of the deceased’s family home, as a result of a number of failed trusts and an erroneous conveyance made in the deceased’s lifetime.
Advised the executors of an estate, valued at over £20m, in defending a claim over the validity of a will and allegations of undue influence.
Advised a number of clients in Beddoe Applications and applications seeking the directions of the court.
Advised a company in defending a claim brought by an online gambling company, and counterclaiming for approximately £12m.
Acted for the claimants in Morris & Morris v Knox Limited and MBL Financial Limited and succeeded on all of the contested points, and in defending the counterclaim for £500,000. Also successfully represented the claimants in the costs application and proceedings, which involved sums that outweighed the amounts at stake in the substantive proceedings.
Advised a listed company in a dispute regarding a break clause in a lease.
Advised numerous companies and individuals in landlord and tenant disputes.
Advised the Island’s leading property development company in defending a claim for damages in the sum of £1.5 as a result of an alleged breach of contract for sale.
Advised an employee in a successful claim against a government department for unfair dismissal and breaches of the Data Protection Act.
Advised a consultant employee in a whistleblowing claim against the Department of Health and Social Care.
Advised a former director of a government department on a claim for redundancy.
Advised a leading corporate service provider in a high-level employment dispute involving sums over £400,000.
Advised a company that owned a leading Isle of Man restaurant on 12 redundancies following the decision to close the restaurant. This matter also involved successfully defending a claim for unfair/wrongful dismissal.
Advised 10 individuals and entities who were subject to Restraint Orders, restraining assets valued at over £15m, following a global investigation. Successfully discharged all of the Restraint Orders and obtained an order requiring the police to return the assets seized for the criminal investigation.
Successfully discharged a Restraint Order that restrained an individual’s assets valued at £400,000.
Advised a client in discharging a Restraint Order which restrained funds in the sum of £360,000.
Represented a number of clients in confiscation proceedings following guilty pleas to criminal charges.
Represented a senior advocate before the Advocates Disciplinary Tribunal as a result of a complaint by the Isle of Man Law Society alleging numerous breaches of the Advocates Practice Rules and Advocates Accounts Rules. The Advocate retained his practising certificate and received a small fine of £4,500.
Successfully represented a senior advocate before the Advocates Disciplinary Tribunal as a result of a complaint brought by an individual who was the adverse party to his client’s claim.
Advised numerous clients in criminal proceedings from police interview to trial.
Successfully claiming damages in a very technical dispute regarding the construction of water treatment works in the Isle of Man, with the claim determined by way of arbitration. The case involved drastically opposed expert evidence regarding the properties of various metals and how they reacted to changes in temperature in order to establish the cause of a crack and the resulting damage.
Settling a number of high-value personal injury claims involving serious injuries and clinical negligence.
AB v CD [2016] – Acted for the successful Claimant in the first decision in the Isle of Man courts on the Hastings-Bass principle and on the law relating to relief for equitable mistake following its reformulation by the UK Supreme Court in Pitt v Holt. Also dealt with considerations of the need to protect the identity of the settlor, the trustee and the beneficiaries where private family trusts are involved.
Hafner v H.M. Attorney General and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission and Others – Acted for the Australian Securities and Investment Commission in relation to requests for information and numerous subsequent judicial review proceedings. Also represented the Australian Securities and Investment Commission in related litigation involving Rene Rivkin and Trevor Kennedy.
LM Moore & OTR v SV Company Limited, Soyuz Victan Group Limited & others – Successfully acted on behalf of the world’s second-largest producer of vodka in discharging a receivership order.
Barlow Clowes International Ltd v Henwood – Defended charging order proceedings in the sum of £11 million brought by the receivers of Barlow Clowes.
Petrodel Resources Limited v Le Breton – Acted for the Respondent in successfully defending various appeals brought by Petrodel Resources Limited in the course of proceedings involving registration of judgments, applications to set aside orders for service out of the jurisdiction and winding up proceedings.
MK Investments and MK Aircraft Leasing – Acted for the Petitioners (as Administrators of MK Investments Limited and MK Aircraft Leasing Limited appointed under the Insolvency Act 1986) in a successful application to the court for recognition in the Isle of Man of their appointment as administrators under the English Insolvency Act 1986.
In the matter of the Petition of Skyland Investments Limited (in Receivership) – Acted for the Receivers of Skyland Investments Ltd in a successful application where the court ruled that in order to register a caveat against a property a creditor required evidence of an actual interest in the property.
Obertor Limited and Gaetano Limited – Acted for Gaetano Limited in successful litigation that determined that a foreign judgment creditor did not need to take steps to register such judgment in the Isle of Man if attempting to utilise the winding-up procedure based upon non-payment of a statutory demand. The Isle of Man court also determined that a purposive and not a literal approach is the method of statutory construction that now prevails.