News – Page 241

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    Local government

    2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Council tax - Respondent being non-British spouse of foreign student Harrow Borough of London v Ayiku: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (London) (Mr Justice Sales): 9 May 2012 The Administrative ...

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    Conveyancing panels

    2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

    The recent announcement of ­automatic admission for CQS firms to the HSBC panel is a welcome return to normality. Perhaps not quite ‘as you were’, but a major step towards recognition that the best interests of our clients and their borrowers are served by a ­diversity of choice within the ...

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    Insurance

    2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Liability insurance - Determination of proximate cause - Damage to goods being found European Group Ltd and others v Chartis Insurance UK Ltd: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr Justice Popplewell): 11 May 2012 ...

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    Case management - a more robust approach

    2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Guntrip v Cheney Coaches Ltd, [2012] EWCA Civ 392, Ward, Elias and Lewison LJJ; Fred Perry Holdings Ltd v Brands Plaza Trading Ltd & Another [2012] EWCA Civ 224, Jackson and Lewison LJJ.

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    Company

    2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Receiver - Solicitor - Negligence - Claimant company suffering losses from fire Edenwest Ltd v CMS Cameron McKenna: ChD (Mr Justice Hildyard): 14 May 2012 The claimant company carried out ...

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    Practice

    2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Pre-trial or post-judgment relief - Freezing order - Committal order - Disclosure JSC BTA Bank v Mukhtar Ablyazov and others; JSC BTA Bank v Addleshaw Goddard LLP: QBD (Comm) (Mr Justice Teare): 15 May 2012 ...

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    Keeping the Pirates at Bay (or away from it)

    2012-05-25T00:00:00Z

    In 2003, a group of friends living in Sweden launched a website which quickly became one of the most notorious sites on the internet - a file-sharing website known as The Pirate Bay. The High Court has now instructed five internet service providers (ISPs) to take measures to block their ...

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    Intellectual property

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Patents Court - Jurisdiction Suh and another v Ryu and others: Patents County Court (Judge Birss QC): 3 May 2012 The Patents County Court held that regulation 3(2)(b) of the ...

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    Intellectual property

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Patent - Infringement - Order for destruction Merck Canada Inc and another v Sigma Pharmaceuticals plc: Patents County Court (Judge Birss QC): 3 May 2012 The Patents County Court granted ...

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    Contract

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Condition - Breach - Effect - Defendant terminating agreement Deiulemar Shipping SpA and another v Transfield ER Futures Ltd: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr C Edelman QC (Sitting as a Deputy Judge of the Commercial Court)): 18 April ...

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    Criminal evidence

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Hearsay - Document - Whether conviction on count 1 unsafe R v Ibrahim: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Aikens, Mr Justice Field and Judge Nicholas Cooke QC): 27 April 2012 ...

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    Arbitration

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Claim form - Service - Service out of the jurisdiction Bitumex (HK) Company Ltd v IRPC Public Company Ltd: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court (Judge Mackie QC): 2 May 2012 ...

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    Tax

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Assessment - Judicial review - Seafarers Cameron and others v Revenue and Customs Commissioners: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (London) (Mr Justice Wyn Williams): 8 May 2012 The Administrative Court ...

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    Tax

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Set-off - Assignment of debt - Claimant seeking interest on award Emblaze Mobility Solutions Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners: Chancery Division (Mr Peter Leaver QC (Sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court)): 27 April 2012 ...

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    Company

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Administration - Date of registration of (Form 2.34B) notice In the matter of Globespan Airways Limited (Formerly in Administration and now in Liquidation); In the matter of the Insolvency Act 1986: Chancery Division, Manchester District Registry (Mr Justice Briggs): ...

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    Desperate ban

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    The arguments are over and the ­lobbying is done - the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act is now fully inscribed in the law of the land. The views of politicians, stakeholders and the media over the merits of each ­provision are moot; attention should now fall to ...

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    Equity

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Beneficial interest - Land charge - Equitable charge - Charging order on land Hughmans Solicitors v Central Stream Services Ltd (in liquidation) and another: ChD (Mr Justice Briggs): 11 May 2012 ...

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    Contract

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Variation - Written contract - Claimant working for first defendant under contract of employment Attrill and others v Dresdner Kleinwort Ltd and another company; Anar and others v Dresdner Kleinwort Ltd and another company: QBD (Mr Justice Owen): 9 ...

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    Spousal maintenance - how much and for how long?

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    These two questions vex even the most experienced family law practitioners. Disputes over spousal maintenance often preclude an early settlement. Many practitioners have also commented that the approach to an award of spousal maintenance around the country is widely inconsistent, with regional variations being particularly noticeable.

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    Contempt of court

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Appeal against committal order - Defendant failing to comply with restraint order and being committed to prison for contempt of court R v OB: CA (Crim Div) (Lord Justice Gross, Mr Justice Openshaw, Judge Milford QC): 2 May 2012 ...