Ali Malek QC Call 1980; QC 1996; MA (Oxon) BCL E-mail: am@3vb.com

Recent cases

• R v. Southwark Crown Court [1990] QB 650 (bank's duties in relation to notices under Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986).
  
• EDF Mann v. Haryanto (No. 2) [1991] 1 Lloyds Rep 429 (anti-suit injunctions). Barclays v. Khaira [1992] (bank's duties on taking security).
  
• Tudorgrange v. Citibank [1992] Ch 53 (releases and UCTA 1977).
  
• Re Rafidain [1992] BCLC 301 (bank accounts/sovereign immunity).
  
• Barclays Bank v. Homan [1993] BCLC 680 (anti-suit injunctions).
  
• Natwest v. Daniel [1993] 1 WLR 1453 (circumstances in which a court can resolve disputes of fact on summary judgment applications).
  
• A and others [1993] (Bank of England's powers under the Banking Act 1987).
  
• Robertson v. CIBC [1994] 1 WLR 1493) (bank's duties when served with court orders).
  
• James v. Barclays (1994) 4 Banking LR 131 (jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal to strike out appeals).
  
• Glencore International AG v. Bank of China [1996] 1 Lloyds Rep 135 (ICC 500 and original documents).
  
• National Provincial Building Society v. Lloyd [1996] 1 All ER 630 (court's powers to suspend orders).
  
• Barclays Bank v. Thomson [1997] 4 All ER 816 (undue influence).
  
• Bank of Credit and Commerce International (Overseas) Ltd v. Price Waterhouse (No. 2) [1998] Ch 84 (Bank of England's powers under the Banking Act).
  
• Box, Brown and Jacobs v. Barclays Bank [1998] Lloyds Rep Bank 185 (constructive trusts).
  
• Bank Melli v. Ispahani [1998] Lloyds Rep Bank 133 (illegality/conflict of laws).
  
• Yorkshire Bank v. Halls [1999] 1 All ER 879 (bank's duties to customers).
  
• Yorkshire Bank v. Lloyds Bank [1999] Lloyds Rep Bank 191 (collecting bank's duties).
  
• Turner v. Royal Bank of Scotland [1999] Lloyds Rep Bank 231 (bank's duties on giving references).
  
• Bolkiah v. KPMG [1999] AC 222 (chinese walls and accountants).
  
• Young and others v. Robson Rhodes [1999] 3 All ER 524 (chinese walls and accountants).
  
• Halewood v. Addleshaw Booth & Co [2000] Lloyds Resp PN 278 (intellectual property, chinese walls and solicitors).
  
• Re a Barrister (Wasted Costs Order No. 1) (unreported, 13/1/00)(costs).
  
• Sepoong Engineering Construction Co Ltd v. Formula One Administration [2000] Lloyd's Rep 602 (contract and letters of credit).
  
• Portman Building Society v. Dusangh [2000] Lloyds Rep Banking 197 (unconscionable bargains).
  
• Turner v. Royal Bank of Scotland (No. 2) [2000] BPIR 683 (bankruptcy).
  
• Alliance and Leicester v. Slayford (2000) All ER(D) 1376 (mortgagees rights).
  
• Dubai Aluminium Company Ltd v. Salaam and Others [2001] 1 QB 113 (constructive trusts and fraud; the Partnership Act 1890 and the Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978).
  
• Montrod v. Grundkotter [2002] 1 WLR 1975 (letters of credit and fraud).
  
• Nash v. Paragon Finance Plc [2002] 1 WLR 685 (Consumer Credit Act 1974, implied terms and UCTA 1977).
  
• Eurolife Assurance Co. Ltd v. FSA (26 July 2002) (Decisions nos. 1 and 2 Financial Services and Markets Tribunal).
  
• Dardana v. Yukos [2002] 2 Lloyd's Rep 261(arbitration and security for costs).
  
• Lloyds TSB v. Hayward [2002] EWHC 456 (guarantees).
  
• Dardana v. Yukos [2002] 2 Lloyd's Rep 326 (enforcement of arbitration awards under the New York Convention).
  
• Casson v Ostley [2003] BLR 147 (fire insurance and UCTA 1997).
  
• Sabena Technics SA v Singapore Airlines Ltd [2003] EWHC 1318 (Comm) (aviation leasing dispute).
  
• Niru Battery v Milestone [2004] 1 Lloyd's Rep 344 (fraud and letters of credit).
  
• Mann v Coutts [2004] 1 All ER (Comm) 1 (insurance/banking related dispute).
  
• Royal Bank of Canada v Rabobank [2004] 1 Lloyd's Rep 471 ( anti-suit injunctions).
  
• Financial Institutions v Negril [2004] UKPC 40: Privy Council appeal on banking documents.
  
• Valse Holdings SA v Merrill Lynch International Bank Ltd [2004] EWCH 2471 (Comm) (banking/duties to customers).
  
• JP Morgan Europe Ltd v Primacom AG [2005] EWHC 508 (Comm) (conflict of law/Brussels Regulations).
• OFT v Lloyds TSB Bank plc and others [2005] 1 All ER 843 (whether s75 Consumer Credit Act 1974 applies to overseas transactions)
• AIG Capital v Republic of Kazakhstan [2006] 1 Lloyd's Rep 45 (ICSID arbitration/ enforcement. State Immunity Act 1982).
• Republic of Kazakhstan v Istil [2006] 2 All ER (Comm) 26 (arbitration and security for costs) .

• Republic of Kazakhstan v Istil [2006] 2 Lloyd's Rep 370 (jurisdiction of arbitrators and issue estoppel).

• Dornoch Ltd v Mauritius Union Assurance Co Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 389, [2006] 2 All ER (Comm) 385 (jurisdiction agreement and proper law of insurance and reinsurance contracts).
• Attorney General of the Cayman Islands v James Cleaver and Co (as liquidators of Liberty Capital Ltd and Sun Holding Ltd) and another (Privy Council) [2006] UKPC 28, [2006] 1 WLR 2245 (power of Grand Court of the Cayman Islands to set guidelines and procedures for fixing of liquidators' remuneration).

Publications and Articles

• Paper on worldwide injunctions in [1990] LMCLQ 88.
  
• Paper presented at the Creaton Conference on "Banks, Fraud and Crime" entitled "Cross-Border Fraudulent Activity" (published by Lloyds of London Press 2nd Ed, 2000).
  
• Paper with D Quest) in Mealey's International Arbitration Report (Vol 15, January 2000) entitled "Partiality of Barrister Arbitrators".
  
• Jack, Malek & Quest Documentary Credits (3rd Edition) (2000).

Appointment

Chairman of the Commercial Bar Association (2007-)
Recorder

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