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12 December 2025
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Law digests: 12 December 2025

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Credit Suisse Life (Bermuda) Ltd v Ivanishvili and others (Bermuda) [2025] UKPC 53

The Privy Council allowed the appellant Credit Suisse Life (Bermuda) Ltd’s (‘CS Life’) appeal in part, but only regarding the start dates for the assessment of damages for breach of contract. The board dismissed CS Life’s appeal on all other grounds, affirming the findings of the Bermudian courts that CS Life had a contractual obligation to invest policy assets according to the discretionary mandate chosen by the policyholders, which it breached when the assets were instead fraudulently mismanaged by Patrice Lescaudron, a relationship manager at Credit Suisse AG. The board found that CS Life was liable for breach of contract but rejected CS Life’s arguments that it had no relevant contractual duties, that damages should be calculated differently, and that liability should end earlier. The board also dismissed the cross-appeal by the respondent the former Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili and other respondents seeking to restore the Chief Justice’s finding of fraudulent misrepresentation, holding that the claim was time-barred

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The Court of Appeal has slammed the brakes on claimants trying to swap defendants after limitation has expired. In Adcamp LLP v Office Properties and BDB Pitmans v Lee [2026] EWCA Civ 50, it overturned High Court rulings that had allowed substitutions under s 35(6)(b) of the Limitation Act 1980, reports Sarah Crowther of DAC Beachcroft in this week's NLJ

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