Insights

Articles

Insolvency within your trust: bankrupt settlors, insolvent companies and insolvent trusts

By Zoë Barton KC | Tara Taylor
Tuesday 23 June 2020

Recent Cases

Univar UK Ltd v Smith [2020] EWHC 1596 (Ch)

Pensions | High Court of Justice

Michael Furness KC | Tim Matthewson
Monday 22 June 2020

News

Univar UK Ltd v Smith [2020] EWHC 1596 (Ch): rectification of pension schemes after FSHC

On 19 June 2020, Mr Justice Trower handed down judgment granting rectification of the Univar Company Pension Scheme (1978), in the first pension rectification claim decided after a full trial since the landmark decision of the Court of Appeal in... Read more

Monday 22 June 2020

Articles

Disputed debts—the jurisdiction of the insolvency court to review tax assessments (National Crime Agency v GTG Management Ltd and Beauty & Skin Ltd)

By Rachael Earle
Wednesday 17 June 2020

Webchats

Property in the pandemic: Force Majeure

Jonathan Davey KC and Julian Greenhill KC speak about Force Majeure clauses in a property context against the backdrop of the C-19 lockdown and the lifting of said lockdown.

Jonathan Davey KC | Julian Greenhill KC
Thursday 11 June 2020

Publications

Pensions, Contracts and Trusts: Legal Issues on Decision Making

David Pollard
May 2020

News

New Title: Pensions, Contracts and Trusts: Legal Issues on Decision Making by David Pollard

We are delighted to announce that David Pollard‘s new book: Pensions, Contracts and Trusts: Legal Issues on Decision Making has just been published by Bloomsbury Professional. It covers the legal issues arising where decisions are made under discretions or powers – mainly in... Read more

Friday 5 June 2020

News

Wilberforce features twice in May edition of Trusts & Trustees

Edward Sawyer and Jamie Holmes have published an article entitled ‘Confidential trust information and court proceedings: can privacy be maintained?‘, the abstract for which reads as follows: Trust litigation often involves highly confidential information, and it is common for all... Read more

Tuesday 2 June 2020

Articles

Confidential trust information and court proceedings: can privacy be maintained?

By Edward Sawyer | Jamie Holmes
Saturday 30 May 2020

News

R (on the application of Palestine Solidarity Campaign Ltd and another) v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government [2020] UKSC 16

To download and read this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Jia Wei Lee   In 2016, the Government issued guidance to local authorities administering the local government pension scheme (“LGPS”) which had the effect of restricting... Read more

Thursday 28 May 2020

Articles

R (on the application of Palestine Solidarity Campaign Ltd and another) v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government [2020] UKSC 16

By Jia Wei Lee
Thursday 28 May 2020

Webchats

Is this the vaccine? The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill

Marcia Shekerdemian KC and Rachael Earle discuss the bill.

Marcia Shekerdemian KC | Rachael Earle
Tuesday 26 May 2020