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Civil way: 23 June 2017

23 June 2017
Issue: 7751 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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119 year service; clutter clearance & picking up litigation

The ‘old ones’ are the best

My lecturer at the College of Law (before it morphed into something else and its profits were hit) assured us on introducing equity as the subject for study that it was ‘a load of nebulous c**p’. He had a point—but only to a point. Provided hands are clean, it can do a litigant a power of good. Take the equitable doctrine of exoneration, for example. You may have popped into the Court of Appeal when judgments were being delivered in Paget v Paget [1898] 1 Ch 470 which was big on exoneration. It has taken 119 years for the equity to return to the Court of Appeal in Armstrong (as Trustee in Bankruptcy of Onyearu) v Onyearu and another [2017] EWCA Civ 268.

This is how the equity works. If property is jointly owned by A and B and is charged by A to secure the debts of B only, it is presumed that A intended to enter into

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Sports, education and charities practice welcomes senior associate

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Partner and head of commercial litigation joins in Chelmsford

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Firm strengthens Glasgow corporate practice with partner hire

NEWS
One in five in-house lawyers suffer ‘high’ or ‘severe’ work-related stress, according to a report by global legal body, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
The Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO’s) plea for a budget increase has been rejected by the Law Society and accepted only ‘with reluctance’ by conveyancers
Overcrowded prisons, mental health hospitals and immigration centres are failing to meet international and domestic human rights standards, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has warned
Two speedier and more streamlined qualification routes have been launched for probate and conveyancing professionals
Workplace stress was a contributing factor in almost one in eight cases before the employment tribunal last year, indicating its endemic grip on the UK workplace
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