Property, Chancery & Commercial Archives

Category: Property, Chancery & Commercial

Apr

Case Summary: Kitover v Galmarley Ltd (t/a Bullionvault.com)

Maurice Rifat successfully recovers gold on behalf of a Claimant who had used a forged passport and a false identity to set up the account under which it was held. In Kitover v Galmarley Ltd ...

Mar

Webinar Recording: Covid Enforcement Restrictions – Practical Problems

In yesterday’s webinar, Zachary Bredemear, Richard Cherry and Conor Kennedy offered a reminder of the restrictions on bringing proceedings and enforcement that are still in force, as the UK prepares ...

Mar

BREAKING NEWS – AGAIN: Further extension of Coronavirus protections under the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020

On 24 March 2021 regulations were laid before parliament to further extend the protections introduced under the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (CIGA). CIGA originally introduced a ...

Feb

Hart v Large – Assessment of Damages in Negligent Surveyor Cases

This recent decision from the Court of Appeal will be of particular interest to surveyors ...

Feb

What Corbyn Can Teach Commercial Litigators

At the end of a much-cited passage about witness’ memory Leggatt J. suggested that the best approach for a judge in a commercial case was, “to place little if any reliance at all on witnesses' ...

Jan

Briefing – Covid: Practice and Procedure

Although the start of 2021 has not been as auspicious as we would have wished, Happy New Year from all at 1 Chancery Lane. Despite everyone’s hopes that 2021 would start more favourably than ...

Dec

Webinar Recording: 1CL Festive Case Law Update

In their webinar yesterday, Sarah Prager, Lisa Dobie, Conor Kennedy and Richard Collier donned their Christmas jumpers and took attendees on a whistle stop tour of some of the key cases of 2020 in the ...

Nov

Webinar Recording: The Illegality Defence in the light of Stoffel v Grondona and Henderson v Dorset Healthcare

On 30 October Andrew Warnock QC and Maurice Rifat were successful in the Supreme Court in the case of Stoffel & Co v Grondona [2020] UKSC 42 which concerned the impact of the ...

Nov

Property, Chancery and Commercial Group – Autumn Casenote Bulletin

Welcome to 1 Chancery Lane’s Autumn Casenote Bulletin. In this edition: Henk Soede explores how the Supreme Court interpreted section 84 of the Law of Property Act 1925 on the first ...

Nov

Restrictive Covenants – Supreme Court’s First Consideration of s.84 of the Law of Property Act 1925: Alexander Devine Children’s Cancer Trust v Housing Solutions Ltd [2020] UKSC 45

Introduction In Alexander Devine Children’s Cancer Trust v Housing Solutions Ltd [2020] UKSC 45, the Supreme Court was required (for the first time ever) to decide an ...

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