Episode 36: Commercial Breakfast Briefing October 2026 with Andrew George KC, Mark Vinall, Peter Head, Rayan Fakhoury and Drishti Suri

To celebrate our summer travels, Blackstone’s Breakfast Briefing returns with a look at a series of recent important cases with both an international and a key procedural element.

​Mark Vinall takes us to Venezuela to discuss the Court of Appeal’s decision in Illiquidx Ltd v Atlanta Wealth Ltd. concerning the contractual construction of phrases with well-established market meanings such as, in this case, “public domain”.

​Drishti Suri keeps us in the Court of Appeal to look at their consideration in Kerish International Motors v Opel of what “national law” might mean in a contract in the context of the Government’s changing approach to the recognition of Palestine as a state and to what extent challenges to foreign law findings on appeal must be treated as questions of fact.

​Rayan Fakhoury speeds us off to Italy to update us on another recent consideration of principles of the comity of nations in the context of an application for pre-action disclosure – Robert Ebart v Ferrari.

Is there also time for a Case of the Quarter? Of course there is.

​Peter Head brings us right back to England to look at a recent critical consideration of the law of causation and the procedural rules that apply to its pleading in Gallagher Benefit Services v Meagher.

​Andrew George KC directs your journey from the Chair.