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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.

H&J has entered into a partnership with Reading Rep Theatre to be one of two founding corporate sponsors. On 31 October 2023 launched its corporate partnership scheme with H&J in attendance alongside Reading Rep's other founding corporate partner, Ernst & Young. The launch night was also attended by the charity's royal patron, HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex.

H&J and Radcliffe Chambers sponsored the Harrison Clark Rickerbys 2022 Insolvency Conference that took place on 14 October 2022 at the Museum of London.

The Court of Appeal decision in Lock v Stanley (Re Edengate) [2022] EWCA Civ 626 makes it clear that defendants to assigned claims will face significant hurdles if they try to challenge the office-holders decision to assign.

The COVID-19 pandemic is without precedent in modern times. Its impact has spread across the globe infecting our lives for nearly two years. An unfortunate consequence of the pandemic is also likely to be an explosion of fraud cases. In this article, Piers Elliott and Lauren Pender examine the reasons why.