New Birmingham Office Address

In this article, first published in INSOL Europe's Eurofenix's Summer 2023 magazine, Gwilym Jones and Piers Elliott examine the options available to office holders when seeking to make realisations from litigation claims.

H&J is pleased to have retained its Band 2 ranking in Chambers & Partners 2023 for insolvency litigation funding. We are also delighted that Philip Henderson has been recognised as a leading individual.

Many businesses forced to close during the COVID-19 pandemic held business interruption insurance policies they had envisaged would provide them with coverage. The 2020 Supreme Court test case judgment only considered the wording set out in certain standard policies issued by a handful of insurers leaving many policyholders uncertain as to whether their claims would be covered. A series of High Court decisions this year have helped to address some of that uncertainty - and we explore below a number of decisions which have largely been favourable to policyholders.