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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
26 March 2015
Defamation & Malicious Falsehood - discussing the Peter Cruddas case - part 3
In 2012 Peter Cruddas, former Conservative Party co-treasurer, commenced proceedings against the Sunday Times for defamation and malicious falsehood following the publication of a series of articles about him. The meaning of the words complained of were determined as a preliminary issue in 2013 and the natural and ordinary meanings were found to be as Mr Cruddas had alleged (see my previous blog Defamation & Malicious Falsehood – discussing the Peter Cruddas case – part 1).
12 March 2015
Legal update: disproportionate costs on a detailed assessment
Where disproportionate costs had been claimed in relation to interim applications, the costs likely to be recoverable on a detailed assessment were assessed conservatively.
12 March 2015
Can a real estate agent be an arbitrator?
In the case of Crowther v Rayment [2015] EWHC 427 (Ch) it was held amongst other things an agent involved with the management of the property could not act in a judicial capacity as arbitrator.
19 February 2015
Legal update: the investors had no claim against the solicitors for breach of fiduciary duty or restitution for unjust enrichment
The appellant firm of solicitors (B) appealed a decision that it had breached its fiduciary duty as a trustee. The respondents (C) had invested in a property investment scheme operated by a single purpose company (X). The offering documents consisted largely of two emails from X. C paid the investment monies into B's client account. B acted for X. B used most of the money to reduce X's short-term bank borrowing.
16 February 2015
Do you want your money back?
Almost every day over the last couple of weeks there have been news stories about frauds – whether it’s a vulnerable person being defrauded of their life’s savings from their bank account or their pension fund or a company (or even a charity) being defrauded by its own employees. Last week the news story was of a fraud committed by a so called ‘best friend’.
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