Changing nature of trust litigation – Article by Josh Lewison
Josh Lewison was invited by Today’s Wills & Probate to discuss how trust litigation is changing, and how dispute resolution tactics now call for the use of commercial and insolvency remedies. Please read the piece here.
Presentation slides: Trustees’ Decisions – how to make ’em, shake ’em and break ’em (Private Client Conference 2021)
Trustees’ Decisions – how to make ’em, shake ’em and break ’em (Marie-Claire Bleasdale) Trustees’ Decisions – How to make ’em, shake ’em and break ’em (Daniel Burton) Trustees’ Decisions – how to make ’em, shake ’em and break ’em (Jemma Goddard of Stewarts)
Video: Succession and Omission
Video: Contentious Probate: Catching out the fraudsters
In this webinar, William Moffett and Sophia Rogers discuss recent contentious probate cases involving the forgery of wills. This webinar is part of the Radcliffe Chambers Private Client Conference 2021 and was recorded on 16 June 2021. You can also watch this webinar on our YouTube channel here. Presentation slides: Contentious Probate – Catching out […]
Video: Remedies in trust litigation: Deploying commercial and insolvency remedies pre-action and post-judgment (Private Client Conference 2021)
Josh Lewison and Poppy Rimington-Pounder of Radcliffe Chambers with Andreas Kistler of Carey Olsen and Jacob Ward of Macfarlanes discuss how to deploy commercial and insolvency remedies in trust litigation. This webinar is part of the Radcliffe Chambers Private Client Conference 2021 and was recorded on 16 June 2021. You can also watch this webinar […]
Video: Death, litigation and a hint of insolvency (Private Client Conference 2021)
Kate Selway KC and Matt Mills host a practical discussion on how clients can issue a claim against an estate which does not have a personal representative, or keep existing litigation going where the other party dies. They also address some problems that can arise where an estate might appear to be insolvent, particularly where […]
Court of Appeal holds pensions increase rule means what it says (Britvic plc v Britvic Pensions Ltd) – Article by Henry Day
The Court of Appeal gave judgment last week in the Britvic pension increase case, applying the Supreme Court’s recent guidance on contractual interpretation, explaining the weight to be given to a provision’s wording as against contextual factors, and making clear the limits of ‘corrective construction’. Henry Day examines the decision in this article for LexisPSL. […]
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 […]
