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Civil Fraud Quarterly Round-Up: Q1 2021
Mary Young
A Civil Fraud quarterly round-up (3rd quarter 2020)
A search order, made pursuant to section 7 of the Civil Procedure Act 1997 and CPR Part 25, is one of the most draconian orders the English civil courts can make. No Respondent really wants a search team to enter their premises but because of Covid -19 the search team is even less welcome than usual.
The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill received its first reading in the House of Commons on 20 May 2020, several months after Alok Sharma first announced what we expected to be the biggest changes to insolvency law in decades.
I have always had a soft spot for the Black Swan jurisdiction: nothing to do with the law, but because it reminds me of my previous study of philosophy and the use of “all swans are white” as an example of falsification theory.
This article was first published by Farming UK on 26 March 2020. In the last fortnight, at a time when many are updating their wills, reflecting on their estates and what is in store for future generations, the courts have handed down two more decisions relating to farming inheritance cases. These are not uncommon. In 2018, there were 7 proprietary estoppel cases related to farming, or farming partnership disputes out of a total 12 proprietary estoppel claims.
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