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On 1 November, the Court of Appeal appeared to envision a County Court “rubber stamping” procedure for overpayment dispute determinations. “Cui bono?”, one might ask. Ram Lakshman has written a casenote summarising the case with commentary. The article was first... Read more
By Ram Lakshman
Thursday 9 November 2023
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Article by Benjamin Slingo, 30th October 2023 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. Lumb v Lumb [2023] EWHC 2052 (Ch) was an appeal on costs which sheds interesting light on how general rules of... Read more
By Benjamin Slingo
Monday 30 October 2023
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Daniel Lewis has written an article for Issue 14 of TL4 FIRE Magazine’s annual ‘Contentious Insolvency Edition 2023‘. To read the full article, please click here.
By Daniel Lewis
Monday 25 September 2023
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David Pollard and Joseph Steadman’s article, ‘Pensions, personal bankruptcy and creditor recovery: recent developments’, has been published in Issue 37.2 of Trust Law International by Bloomsbury Publishing. Trust Law International is a well established quarterly journal with a mixed readership... Read more
By David Pollard | Joseph Steadman
Friday 15 September 2023
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As a part of the “Remind me about” series, Robert Ham KC discusses two current issues regarding trustee remuneration, namely the 2022 decision of the Court of Appeal in Re Townsend and the new tPR Code provisions. The article was... Read more
By Robert Ham KC
Monday 11 September 2023
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Article by Samuel Cathro, 30th August 2023 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. If the court blesses a transaction, the trustee is immune from subsequent challenge. One might be forgiven for thinking that is... Read more
By Samuel Cathro
Wednesday 30 August 2023
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Article by Lemuel Lucan-Wilson, 31st July 2023 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. The recent case of Bhaur v Equity First Trustees (Nevis) Ltd [2023] EWCA Civ 534 provides a timely reminder of the... Read more
By Lemuel Lucan-Wilson
Monday 31 July 2023
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Ben Faulkner and Kirsty Black (Shoosmiths) have written an article entitled “Rental levels in lease renewals” which asks, with the announcement of the Law Commission’s consultation on Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, can changes be made... Read more
By Benjamin Faulkner
Monday 17 July 2023
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Paul Newman KC has written an article on the principles of statutory construction, which might be relevant to the interpretation of a term of art used in a statutory instrument – such as “accrued rights” in the contracting-out legislation recently... Read more
By Paul Newman KC
Thursday 13 July 2023
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To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. Ever since the House of Lords decision in Fiona Trust & Holding Corporation v Privalov [2007] UKHL 40, the principle of the separability of arbitration agreements has been... Read more
By Stuart Isaacs KC | Elizabeth Houghton
Monday 10 July 2023
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As a part of the “Remind me about” series, Joseph Steadman discusses the electronic execution of documents. The article was first posted on Paul Newman KC’s website pensionsbarrister.com. To read ‘Electronic execution of documents: where have we got to, and where we... Read more
By Joseph Steadman
Thursday 6 July 2023
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Article by Jia Wei Lee[1], 30th June 2023 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. 1. The improper purpose doctrine is an easy one to state: a power may only be exercised for a purpose... Read more
By Jonathan Hilliard KC | Jia Wei Lee
Friday 30 June 2023
