List members may be interested by Amalgamated Metal Corporation Plc v Wragge & Co (A Firm) [2011] EWHC 887 (Comm) in which the defendant solicitors have been ordered to pay £7.5 million damages for accepting a settlement offer from HMRC in connection with their client’s Metallgesellschaft claim on the basis that simple rather than compound interest would be payable. Online at: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Comm/2011/887.html. CM


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