22 June 2010 | Clare Stothard
When can you claim knowing receipt? When is it possible to pierce the corporate veil and how do you establish a claim for dishonestly assisting in a breach of trust? This case considered all these...
10 June 2010 | Tim Constable
MAB acted for the successful Defendant in this commercial agency case in which HHJ Simon Brown QC gave judgment last week. A transcript of the judgment can be found on BAILII and the case has been widely...
2 June 2010 | Jeremy Abraham
Short of tatooing on foreheads, the Court of Appeal judgment handed down in Jones v Kernott [2010] EWCA Civ 578, represents the best reminder of the law relating to joint ownership of property, most commonly applicable...
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1 June 2010 | Faiza Ahmad
£30,000, £40,000, £75,000, £100,000 – significant amounts of money? Yes and these are all examples of the legal costs people across the country have recently spent on fighting boundary disputes...
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19 April 2010 | Justine Ash
“HOT TUBBING”
The Jackson Report on litigation costs included some novelties, for example the concept of “hot tubbing”.
Hot tubbing or “concurrent evidence”, is a method of giving...
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14 April 2010 | Faiza Ahmad
Currently, to be an Assured Shorthold Tenancy the annual rent under the tenancy must be less than £25,000 per annum. This threshold will increase to £100,000 with effect from 1 October 2010 . The statutory...
13 April 2010 | Tim Constable
The Bribery Act received its Royal Assent on 8 April 2010 and duly became law on that date. This reflects Jack Straw's determination to push the legislation through before the end of this session of Parliament,...
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30 March 2010 | Justine Ash
A recent ruling in the European Court of Justice has stated that an Italian court’s imposition of compulsory mediation on parties to litigation did not amount to a breach of Article 6(1) of the Convention...
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17 March 2010 | Jeremy Abraham
Briggs J's decision in Key v Key, a Chancery probate dispute, was handed down last week.
George Key, an 89 year old farmer lost his wife of 65 years in December 2006. A week later he made a Will leaving...
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15 March 2010 | Tim Constable
See this link to my longer article on the forthcoming Bribery Act published in Director of Finance online.
The Bill has had its second reading in the Commons and goes into its committee stage tomorrow....
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