A U.K. High Court judge has adjourned a case involving the commodities-trading arm of Russia’s VTB Group, after an eight-month delay in the sanctioned group’s attempts to obtain a government licence.

In a judgement handed down on November 4, Justice David Foxton noted that the claimant VTB Commodities Trading DAC “is a sanctioned entity and no licence has as yet been granted by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI)”.