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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
8 June 2016
Hidden flaws in proposed new “failure to prevent fraud” corporate offence.
Shortly before the recent anti-corruption summit hosted by David Cameron, he announced a consultation on an extension of the corporate offence of failing to prevent bribery to other economic crimes such as fraud and money laundering.
27 May 2016
Proprietary Estoppel Claims – 2016 Case Update (Part 2)
Following ‘hot on the heels’ of the case of Linden v Burton (2016) the Court of Appeal have again been trying to grapple with the difficulties of proprietary estoppel claims in the case of Davis v Davis and Davis.
27 May 2016
Proprietary Estoppel Claims - 2016 Case Update (Part 1)
The recent cases of Linden v Burton (2016) and Davies v Davies and Davies (2016) demonstrate that there is life in the old doctrine of proprietary estoppel.
This blog reviews the first of these cases, which was an appeal in the Court of Appeal against a first instance decision declaring that a residential property was held on trust under the terms of which the first £33,522 in equity is held for the respondent to the appeal, Ms Liden, on the basis of proprietary estoppel.
19 May 2016
Notification Injunctions: Forewarned is Forearmed
On 29 April 2016 Nugee J granted an interlocutory application to restrain Defendants in on-going proceedings from disposing, dealing or otherwise engaging in transactions with any assets of £1m or above without giving the Claimants’ solicitors 7 days advance notice in writing, a ‘notification’ injunction.
19 May 2016
Out with the old and in with the new: The Insurance Act 2015 modernising 100 year old rules of insurance law
The Insurance Act 2015 (the “Act”) received Royal Assent on 12 February 2015 and comes into force on 12 August 2016.
A reform of the insurance law regime is long overdue as the main piece of legislation that still forms the basis of British insurance law (the Marine Insurance Act 1906) was passed when Edward VII was on the throne. The times, and the British insurance market, have changed somewhat in the intervening years. The Insurance Act 2015 is intended to bring the law up-to-date to fit the modern insurance market.
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