Ryan v HSBC UK Bank PLC and Mar City PLC [2023]

Whether to recuse a judge on the grounds of apparent bias and to set aside a judgment (giving reasons for dismissing the claimant’s application for permission to bring a derivative claim on behalf of MCPLC against HSBC based on alleged misuse of HSBC’s position as provider to MCPLC of recovery finance) in circumstances where the judge’s family company had received recovery finance from HSBC in the months leading up to the hearing and there were alleged departures from judicial method at the hearing and in the judgment

Judgment can be viewed here