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Credit Hire - The ongoing war of attrition between the credit hire companies and motor insurers continues Keeping you up to date with the latest news in the world of Corporate Claims There was a new...
View ArticleUK Pensions Speedbrief: Box Clever - Upper Tribunal rules in favour of...
On 18 May 2018, the Upper Tribunal published its decision in ITV plc and others v The Pensions Regulator and others, commonly known as the Box Clever case. The decision relates to the determination of...
View ArticleUK HR E-briefing - New whistleblowing protection on the horizon for the EU
“Whistleblowing”, the colloquial term given to the act of speaking out and disclosing serious wrongdoing by an employer, has attracted high-profile media attention and legal review in recent years. It...
View ArticleUK Shale Gas Exploration and the Planning Regime
The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government have issued a joint Statement on shale gas exploration. The...
View ArticleShould you terminate when solar stops being fun in the sun?
Solar projects have increased in popularity in recent years. This is due to a number of factors: greater demand for renewable energy; the fact that solar is the easiest of the renewable technologies...
View ArticleFoundations: Legislation update - May 2018
Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015 (“Regulations”) From 1 April 2018, the Regulations introduced a minimum energy efficiency standard for both residential...
View ArticleAdjudication Round-Up
There are two recent cases of note regarding adjudication enforcement: Gosvenor London Limited v Aygun Aluminium UK Limited [2018] EWHC 227 (TCC) (“Gosvenor v Aygun”) http:/...
View ArticleInterpretation of PFI contracts: the importance of the big picture
Issues decided The court determined the correct interpretation of a private finance initiative (“PFI”) contract. The primary issues were: whether the PFI service provider was under a duty to update...
View ArticleProject insurance: are sub-contractors entitled to cover?
Issues decided Where a sub-contractor had expressly agreed that it would obtain its own insurance cover in respect of construction works at a school, the court determined whether the sub-contractor...
View ArticleLawbite: The key step to serving a break notice is to make sure it is...
Gateway Assets Limited v C.V Panels Limited [2018] CSOH 48 A tenant had a ten year lease with a break option after 5 years, which could be exercised by giving not less than 6 months’ written notice to...
View ArticleManagement package: Aligning interests in a context of fiscal and social...
In May, French legal publications Option Finance and Option Droit & Affaires have published their supplement magazine dedicated to Management Package, under the following topic : "Management...
View ArticleSupreme Court holds that clauses preventing informal variations of contracts...
The Supreme Court has issued a judgment in Rock Advertising v MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd which makes clear the effect of clauses that set out their own conditions for varying the terms of a...
View ArticleHold on to your hats! Russia moves on counter-sanctions
On Monday 14 May 2018 the Russian State Duma (the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly) was presented with Draft Bill No. 464757-7 which, if signed into law, will make complying with Western...
View ArticlePayment Matters: No. 34
Payment Accounts Regulations: final linked services list published Corrigendum...
View ArticleA lease of thin air
Dominic Morris and Geoff Street, of Eversheds Sutherland, explain the issues that arise when drafting an airspace lease. There are always significant opportunities to release value through air space...
View ArticleSetting aside a possession order
Lukan v Ghana Commercial Finance Ltd [1] The High Court has recently allowed an out-of-time appeal against an order refusing to set aside a possession order, which had been obtained in the absence of...
View ArticleDont take their word for it - the No Oral Modification Effect
The Supreme Court has handed down its judgment in the long-awaited appeal of Rock Advertising Limited v MWB Business Exchange Centres Limited [2018] UKSC 24, a case which the court describes as...
View ArticleCourts uphold Tomlin order compromising defence to possession claim
Heaney v McEvoy [1] The Court of Appeal (Northern Ireland) has recently upheld the decision at first instance to refuse to set aside a Tomlin Order whereby the appellants had agreed not to defend...
View ArticleCourt of Appeal shows leniency in considering whether to adjourn a trial, or...
Solanki v Intercity Telecom Ltd and others [2018] EWCA Civ 101 In this case, the Court of Appeal considered appeals by Mr Solanki on the following points: A refusal by the court to adjourn a trial on...
View ArticleInsurers can be liable to pay costs for defending uninsured claims alongside...
The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision at first instance that an insurer was liable for the costs of defending uninsured claims under section 51 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 – Travelers Insurance...
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