One year of the profession’s new power tool: restructuring plans – Article by David Mohyuddin KC and Andrew Brown
In this article David Mohyuddin KC and Andrew Brown review the judgments made on restructuring plans to identify common themes in their usage. This article first appeared in the Summer 2021 edition of RECOVERY and is reproduced with the permission of GTI Futures and R3. Read the full article here.
Favourite Cases: Target Holdings Ltd v Redferns [1996] AC 421 – Article and Video by Peter Dodge
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In this edition of Favourite Cases, Peter Dodge tells the story of Target Holdings v Redferns [1996] AC 421. Peter says: “Target pioneered the novel use of trust law in a professional negligence context. It shows the importance, when analysing any failed transaction, of “following the money”: that is to say, identifying through whose hands […]
Isle Investments v Leeds City Council – Article by Clive Moys
Non-domestic rates (aka business rates) payable by “the owner” of empty property is both topical and hotly contested. Schemes to avoid or mitigate empty property rates abound. Clive Moys’ article Shams, snails and empty property rates, first published in the Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation Valuer magazine (June edition) considers the recent important billing […]
Favourite Cases: Saunders v Vautier [1841] 49 ER 282 – Video by Josh Lewison
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In this edition of Favourite Cases, Josh Lewison explains the rule in Saunders v Vautier [1841] 49 ER 282 and tell us why it is his favourite case. Favourite Cases is a Radcliffe Chambers project for August 2020, which takes a look at interesting and important chancery and commercial decisions.
Video: An Introduction to Restructuring – Junior Programme: Restructuring
In this Junior Programme: Restructuring ‘An Introduction to Restructuring’ webinar, Lauren Kreamer and James Fagan present an introduction to, and overview of, the restructuring options available to companies in financial difficulty, particularly in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. This talk covers CVAs, administration, liquidation, LPA receivership, administrative receivership, dissolution, and schemes of arrangement, as […]
Video: Boundary Determination under s 60 of the Land Registration Act 2002 Radcliffe talks Real Estate
In this Radcliffe talks Real Estate webinar Simon Williams is in conversation with boundary surveyor Carl Calvert FRICS about the pros and cons of applying for a determined boundary from both the legal and surveying points of view, and about alternative means of resolving boundary disputes. Radcliffe talks Real Estate is a series of short […]
Favourite Cases: Parker v British Airways Board – Article by Natalie Pratt
In this edition of Favourite Cases, Natalie Pratt tells the story of Parker v British Airways Board [1982] QB 1004. Natalie says: “ I choose Parker as my favourite case for three reasons. First, as an academic property lawyer by background, any case that acknowledges theoretical principles, such as the relativity of title applied in […]
Video: Clitheroe v Bond [2021] EWHC 1102 (Ch) case law update with Kate Selway KC and Edward Hicks
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In this case law update video, Kate Selway KC is in conversation with Edward Hicks, who acted as junior counsel for the successful respondent before Mrs Justice Falk in Clitheroe v Bond [2021] EWHC 1102 (Ch), on appeal from the decision of Deputy Master Linwood at trial pronouncing against two wills of the deceased for […]
Favourite Cases: Allcard v Skinner (1887) 36 Ch D 145 – Video by Kate Selway KC
In this edition of Favourite Cases, Kate Selway KC talks about undue influence in the case of Allcard v Skinner (1887) 36 Ch D 145. Kate says: “Allcard v Skinner is one of my favourites because it helped me to understand the breadth and adaptability of the equitable Doctrine of Undue Influence. It concerns a […]
Favourite Cases: Cummins v Bond – Article by Wendy Mathers
In this edition of Favourite Cases, Wendy Mathers tells the story of Cummins v Bond [1927] 1 Ch 167, a copyright case involving a spirit, a medium and the court’s jurisdiction over the afterlife. Wendy says: “Chancery law is wrongly seen by countless law students as boring, too often relating to dry and dusty settlements […]
