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08 November 2013
Issue: 7583 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Damages

RP Explorer Master Fund v Chilukuri and another [2013] EWCA Civ 1307, [2013] All ER (D) 341 (Oct)

In any complicated process of valuation (in the instant case, valuation of shares as part of calculating damages in a case based on breach of contract), the valuer had to take the relevant aspects of the world as he found them (unless constrained by his instructions), and he had, after looking at each element of the process, to stand back and ask himself whether his provisional valuation made commercial or business sense, viewed in the round. 

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Carter-Ruck—Tomas Vail

Carter-Ruck—Tomas Vail

Carter-Ruck strengthens International team with appointment of arbitration partner Tomas Vail

Slater Heelis—Nick Terry

Slater Heelis—Nick Terry

Slater Heelis strengthens crime and regulatory team with appointment of Nick Terry as partner

Payne Hicks Beach—Thomas Moran & Sarah Gogan

Payne Hicks Beach—Thomas Moran & Sarah Gogan

Payne Hicks Beach strengthens private wealth offering with appointment of two new partners

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