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Private prosecutions – A route to justice for the charity sector
Sophie Tang
3 July 2024
Why art collectors should care about James Stunt and the Cheeke Sisters…
In roughly 1640, Sir Anthony van Dyck painted what is known today as the ‘Double Portrait of the Cheeke Sisters’ (the “Painting"). The Painting depicts two sisters, wearing copper and silver coloured gowns, standing against an English countryside background - and it is currently valued at approximately £4,000,000.
25 June 2024
Privacy series part one: Everything but the kitchen sink – the consequences of failure to give full and frank disclosure
As Mummery LJ noted in Sidhu & Anor v Memory Corporation Plc, “[i] cannot be emphasised too strongly that at an urgent without notice hearing for a freezing order, as well as for a search order or any other form of interim injunction, there is a high duty to make full, fair and accurate disclosure of material information to the court and to draw the court's attention to significant factual, legal and procedural aspects of the case”.
25 June 2024
How to protect your business from HMRC input VAT claim refusals: the Kittel threat
Taxpayers have the right to deduct input tax, but HMRC can deny this if it proves the taxpayer knew or should have known their transactions were linked to fraud. Recently, there has been a significant rise in HMRC correspondence denying input tax recovery on these grounds across various sectors. It is vital to address this issue carefully due to its serious potential reputational and financial consequences for businesses.
20 June 2024
Salford Estates overturned: Implications for insolvency proceedings and arbitration agreements
In the case of Sian Participation Corp (In Liquidation) v Halimeda International Ltd (on appeal from the BVI), the Privy Council has found that Salford Estates (No.2) Limited v Altomart Limited was incorrectly decided.
10 June 2024
All this will one day be yours; proprietary estoppel continuing to make headlines
This weekend, the national press has reported on another bitter inheritance dispute, this time centred on a strawberry farm.
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