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18 February 2020
Issue: 7875 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Confidential information

Re Comet Group Ltd [2020] EWHC 131 (Ch), [2020] All ER (D) 141 (Jan)

Confidentiality restrictions that had been placed on information and documents contained within court files and judgments, which had contained information obtained by the Insolvency Service, pursuant to ss 447 and 449 of the Companies Act 1985, would be lifted. The Chancery Division, allowing the applicant liquidator’s application, held that, where information had been supplied by an investigating body for the purpose of a hearing conducted in a court of competent jurisdiction, it thereafter became the subject of the supervision by the court on the issue of the maintenance of confidentiality and if it was appropriate for it to continue and, in the circumstances of the present case, it had been appropriate for the restrictions to be lifted.

Insolvency

Re Pinnacle (Angelgate) Ltd (in liquidation) [2020] EWHC 141 (Ch), [2020] All ER (D) 21 (Feb)

In two applications by the trustee and the liquidators in order to determine the distribution

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Serious injury teambolstered by high-profile partner hire

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

NEWS
Ceri Morgan, knowledge counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, analyses the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd, which reshapes the law of fiduciary relationships and common law bribery
The boundaries of media access in family law are scrutinised by Nicholas Dobson in NLJ this week
Reflecting on personal experience, Professor Graham Zellick KC, Senior Master of the Bench and former Reader of the Middle Temple, questions the unchecked power of parliamentary privilege
Geoff Dover, managing director at Heirloom Fair Legal, sets out a blueprint for ethical litigation funding in the wake of high-profile law firm collapses
James Grice, head of innovation and AI at Lawfront, explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the legal sector
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