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Weekly law digests

06 December 2019
Issue: 7867 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Promontoria (Oak) Ltd v Emanuel and another [2019] EWHC 2896 (Ch), [2019] All ER (D) 93 (Nov)

The respondent company had claimed, as the assignee of Clydesdale Bank (the bank), debts owed to the bank by the appellants. The claim had succeeded on the basis of secondary evidence regarding the assignment, namely a redacted assignment deed. The appellants were granted permission to appeal on three out of six grounds of appeal. The Chancery Division dismissed their applications: (i) to admit new evidence; and (ii) to introduce a seventh ground of appeal. The court ruled that, given that ground 7 involved a contention that the judgment on the claim had been obtained by fraud, it had to be pursued by what would, in substance, be separate action. Further, the court held that the ‘new’ material that the appellants sought to adduce did not come close to meeting the requirement in authority that, if it had been adduced at trial, that evidence would have had an important influence on the result of the case.

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Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

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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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