News and Cases

The Business Arbitration Scheme (BAS) has been developed by the CIArb to provide simple, cost-effective, and timely resolution of disputes of low to medium monetary value (£5,000 – £100,000), by arbitration before a sole arbitrator.

In a comprehensive judgment, rejecting claims brought by the liquidators of Ralls Builders Limited. Mr Justice Snowden has reviewed the law of wrongful trading and clarified a number of aspects and apparently contradictory decisions that have caused controversy within the insolvency profession for a number of years

Court of Appeal to rule on whether substitution of an index alternative to RPI for purposes of pension scheme indexation and revaluation would breach the subsisting rights provisions of the Pensions Act 1995 s.67.

Jeremy Cousins QC recently appeared successfully for the bank in AIB Group(UK) plc v Maxine Turner-Hankinson [2015] EWHC 3994 (Ch), where one of the central issues in the case was whether an overriding interest had been established in respect of a cottage.

Mark Mullen has been appointed by the Lord Chief Justice as a Deputy Bankruptcy Registrar, sitting part-time in the High Court at the Rolls Building, Royal Courts of Justice, hearing insolvency and company law matters.

Radcliffe Chambers is pleased to announce that we are now a Commercial Bar Association Set of Chambers.

This year, instead of sending Christmas cards, we have made a Christmas charity donation to the Social Mobility Foundation.

Mark Mullen represented the Charity Commission for England and Wales before the tribunal on an appeal by Cambridgeshire Target Shooting Association (“CTSA”) against the decision of the Commission not to register it as a charity.

Stephen Acton has recently secured an indemnity costs order in the case of Browne v Swindon Borough Council against the local authority, following a successful claim for tree root damage suffered by the claimant’s house.

Simon Williams appeared for the successful appellant, Mansing Moorjani, whose claim for damages for breaches by his landlord of its covenants to insure the building and maintain the common parts had been rejected by the trial judge on the basis that he was not resident in the building for the periods in respect of which he claimed damages and could not therefore have suffered loss.