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Weekly law digests

25 February 2020
Issue: 7876 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Insolvency

Re Statebourne (Cryogenic) Ltd [2020] EWHC 231 (Ch), [2020] All ER (D) 42 (Feb)

Notwithstanding that a notice of appointment of administrators had been filed one day after the expiry of the time period provided by para 28(2) of Sch B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986, the Business and Property Court declared that the administrators had been validly appointed. Further, the court held that there was no requirement in Sch B1 or r 3.24 of the Insolvency Rules 2016 that the notice of appointment had to specify a particular court centre within the Business and Property Courts.

Landlord & tenant

Pease v Carter and another [2020] EWCA Civ 175, [2020] All ER (D) 94 (Feb)

The judge had erred in finding that a typographical error in notices for possession served by the appellant landlord under s 8 of the Housing Act 1988 (HA 1988) had had the effect that the notices had been invalid because the statutory provisions had been clear and precise by

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NEWS
The landmark Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd—along with Rukhadze v Recovery Partners—redefine fiduciary duties in commercial fraud. Writing in NLJ this week, Mary Young of Kingsley Napley analyses the implications of the rulings
Barristers Ben Keith of 5 St Andrew’s Hill and Rhys Davies of Temple Garden Chambers use the arrest of Simon Leviev—the so-called Tinder Swindler—to explore the realities of Interpol red notices, in this week's NLJ
Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys [2025] has upended assumptions about who may conduct litigation, warn Kevin Latham and Fraser Barnstaple of Kings Chambers in this week's NLJ. But is it as catastrophic as first feared?
Lord Sales has been appointed to become the Deputy President of the Supreme Court after Lord Hodge retires at the end of the year
Limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are reportedly in the firing line in Chancellor Rachel Reeves upcoming Autumn budget
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