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Passport and further asset disclosure orders in support of freezing injunction (JSC Mezhdunarodniy Promyshlenniy Bank & Anor v Pugachev & Ors)

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Published on: 26 October 2015

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Practical implications
Background to the applications
What were the issues before the court?
Was the court willing to require LCL to provide further disclosure?
Did the court extend the passport order?
Court details

Article summary

Dispute Resolution analysis: In this latest judgment in the long-running Pugachev dispute, Mr Justice Snowden has made orders requiring Mr Pugachev’s company, LCL, to provide further information and clarification on its assets and extending the passport order made against Mr Pugachev. Here the court considered the circumstances in which it would be willing to order yet a further round of evidence. There is also useful guidance on the kind of structure that the court will accept for a passport order.

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