Video: An Introduction to Restructuring – Junior Programme: Restructuring

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 […]

Favourite Cases: Parker v British Airways Board – Article by Natalie Pratt

Property

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 […]

Favourite Cases: Cummins v Bond – Article by Wendy Mathers

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 […]

Video: LIDW21 Member Hosted Event on Sanctions and Disputes

Earlier this month, Shantanu Majumdar KC chaired the ‘LIDW[21] member-hosted event: Sanctions and Disputes’ with Ben Wells of CANDEY, Artem Zhavoronkov of Borenius and Susan Leddy of Swiss Re. The presentation and discussion focused on the current issues in the world of economic sanctions with particular emphasis on the effect of sanctions on legal rights and proceedings to enforce them, including: Sanctions […]

Video: Clitheroe v Bond webinar

Video: Clitheroe v Bond

Tom Dumont KC and Ed Hicks of Radcliffe Chambers together with Amanda Smallcombe of Birkett Long, discuss the judgment of Mrs Justice Falk in Clitheroe v Bond [2021] EWHC 1102 (Ch), in which they represented the successful respondent. The appeal concerned the validity of two wills of the deceased, which effectively cut her daughter, the […]