Weekly law digests

Company

Re SHB Realisations Ltd (formerly BHS Ltd) (in liquidation); Wright and another (as joint liquidators of SHB Realisations Ltd (formerly BHS Ltd) (in liquidation)) v Prudential Assurance Company Ltd [2018] EWHC 402 (Ch) [2018] All ER (D) 58 (Mar)

The Companies Court ruled on an application, under s 112 of the Insolvency Act 1986, by the joint liquidators of SHB Realisations Ltd (formerly BHS Ltd) for directions on whether sums claimed by the company’s landlord, the Prudential Assurance Company Ltd, were: (i) payable at all; (ii) provable in the liquidation; and (iii) payable as an administration expense (an administration having preceded the liquidation).

Divorce

WS v HS [2018] EWFC 11 [2018] All ER (D) 158 (Feb)

There had been no proper application before the district judge on which an interim order for the sale of the matrimonial home could be made. Accordingly, the Family Division allowed the appeal by the appellant wife and set aside the order. In reaching its decision, the court also considered the process by which an interim sale could