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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
Accounting firms should be bracing themselves for a rise in professional negligence claims as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the recent case of Barrowfen Properties Ltd v (1) Girish Dahyabhai Patel (2) Stevens & Bolton LLP (3) Barrowfen Properties II [2020] EWHC 2536 (Ch), the High Court extended the iniquity exception to breaches of a director’s statutory duties.
It goes without saying that Insolvency Practitioners must behave honestly and with integrity in all their professional dealings. IPs must handle money and assets in a way which justifies the trust placed in them, but some professionals don’t realise that the way they behave on a Saturday night may be just as relevant to their ability to continue in their chosen profession as the way they behave on a Monday morning.
The current global pandemic has provided and will continue to provide plentiful opportunities for fraud and opportunism.
Court of Appeal overturns injunction in favour of son who sought to restrain his family from participating in the management of their caravan park business - Loveridge –v- Loveridge [2020] EWCA Civ 1104.
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