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08 September 2017
Issue: 7760 / Categories: Case law , Company , Law digest , In Court
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Company

Randhawa and another v Turpin and another (as former Joint Administrators of BW Estates Ltd) [2017] EWCA Civ 1201, [2017] All ER (D) 40 (Aug)

The judge had erred in holding that the sole director of a company, whose articles of association had required two directors for its board meeting to be quorate, had validly appointed joint administrators under para 22 of Sch B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986. Among other things, the Court of Appeal, Civil Division, held that the sole director’s resolution had been incurably invalid in the circumstances, and could not have been rendered valid by the application of the principle arising from the decision in Re Duomatic Ltd ([1969] 1 All ER 161).

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NEWS
Pathfinder courts—renamed ‘Child focused courts’—are to be rolled out nationally, following a successful pilot where backlogs halved and cases were resolved up to seven and a half months faster
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Centuries-old burial laws would be overhauled, under Law Commission proposals to address the burgeoning problem of shortage of cemetery space
The government has committed an extra £32m to women’s charities and services tackling addiction, trauma, abuse and homelessness
The Financial Ombudsman is poised for major reform to return it to a simple, impartial dispute resolution service
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