Harney Westwood & Riegels: court cases and practice areas

Practice areas

Company and partnership6
Insolvency and restructuring2
Civil fraud and asset recovery1
Cross-border disputes1
Arbitration1

Courts

Privy Council9

Judgments by year

20260
20252
20241
20230
20220
20213
20202
20190
20180
20171

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Harney Westwood & Riegels acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date	Case	Cited by
4 Oct 2021	Broad Idea International Ltd v Convoy Collateral Ltd (British Virgin Islands) [2021] UKPC 24 · Privy Council A court possessing equitable or statutory injunction powers may grant a freezing injunction against a person over whom it has personal jurisdiction to support…	44
27 Jan 2020	Shanda Games Ltd v Maso Capital Investments Ltd and others [2020] UKPC 2 · Privy Council Under a statutory appraisal regime, fair value is a question of statutory interpretation read in its legislative context. It does not automatically require…	6

Recent cases

Date	Case	Cited by
30 Sep 2025	Maso Capital Investments Ltd and another v Trina Solar Ltd (Cayman Islands) [2025] UKPC 48 · Privy Council For fair value under the Companies Act (2016 revision), the court may consider transaction price, market price, comparable-company valuation and discounted…	1
30 Sep 2025	Fang Ankong and another v Green Elite Ltd (Virgin Islands) [2025] UKPC 47 · Privy Council A director may not transfer or distribute company assets for personal benefit without authority, even where the company was established for a purpose that the…
19 Jun 2024	Sian Participation Corp (In Liquidation) v Halimeda International Ltd (Virgin Islands) [2024] UKPC 16 · Privy Council A creditor’s liquidation application is not a claim seeking determination or enforcement of the underlying debt. An arbitration agreement therefore does not…	2
4 Oct 2021	Broad Idea International Ltd v Convoy Collateral Ltd (British Virgin Islands) [2021] UKPC 24 · Privy Council A court possessing equitable or statutory injunction powers may grant a freezing injunction against a person over whom it has personal jurisdiction to support…	44
22 Feb 2021	Byers and others v Chen Ningning (British Virgin Islands) [2021] UKPC 4 · Privy Council An appellate court should interfere with concurrent findings of fact only in rare or unusual cases involving an identifiable material error or miscarriage of…	1
14 Jan 2021	Ming Siu Hung and others v J F Ming Inc and another (British Virgin Islands) [2021] UKPC 1 · Privy Council Under section 184I of the BVI Business Companies Act 2004, the court has a broad remedial discretion once unfair prejudice is established. It may consider all…	2
30 Nov 2020	Livingston Properties Equities Inc and others v JSC MCC Eurochem and another (British Virgin Islands) [2020] UKPC 31 · Privy Council In forum non conveniens proceedings, an assumption made for a stay application does not become a finding that an alternative forum is available for a…	1
27 Jan 2020	Shanda Games Ltd v Maso Capital Investments Ltd and others [2020] UKPC 2 · Privy Council Under a statutory appraisal regime, fair value is a question of statutory interpretation read in its legislative context. It does not automatically require…	6
18 Dec 2017	Staray Capital Limited and another v Cha, Yang [2017] UKPC 43 · Privy Council A company’s alteration of its articles is valid if made in good faith in the interests of the company. The shareholders, rather than the court, decide whether…

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Harney Westwood & Riegels is named as solicitors, counted under the firm's current name. The figures are minimums: not every judgment names the solicitors, and a judgment is counted only when we are confident who acted. The selection of cases listed here is limited, and does not include family, criminal or anonymised cases. Firm details include data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. zoomLaw is independent and not connected with Harney Westwood & Riegels. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.