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What to expect at a video mediation
Business & Property
27/03/2020

Video: Creating and using electronic hearing bundles

Rob Mundy and Ali Tabari explain how to create and use electronic hearing bundles. The above free video explains how to create and use an electronic trial or hearing bundle using Adobe Acrobat Pro. In it, Rob Mundy explains how to prepare PDF files,...
St Philips Chambers reception
Business & Property
27/03/2020

Covid 19- Standard directions for remote hearings by Skype in the Business and Property Courts – Birmingham

Introduction These directions apply where incorporated into the directions for holding any hearing by remote means, save to the extent inconsistent with any directions specifically made for that hearing. It is important that parties take all steps...
St Philips Chambers reception
Business & Property
27/03/2020

Business and Property Group News Virtual Hearings: Top 10 Practical Tips

By James Morgan QC & Natalie Kearney The extraordinary times we are currently going through is reflected by the introduction of remote hearings in civil cases. If such a change were to have been introduced in normal times it would have been a...
David Stockhill
Business & Property
20/03/2020

St Philips involved in mental capacity case involving lifetime gifts of the main family asset and the imposition of ad hoc fiduciary duties on the caring sibling

By David Stockill, Barrister In a recent decision, in the Business and Property Courts of the High Court in Birmingham, the Judge found an elderly mother incapable of having the mental capacity to make three substantial lifetime gifts to one only of...
Anthony Verduyn
Business & Property
19/03/2020

Virtual Mediation: The norm for the foreseeable future

By Anthony Verduyn, Mediator and Barrister Yesterday I held what may be my last for face-to-face mediation for weeks, if not months, ahead. As we are all aware, increasing efforts to limit the spread of Coronavirus makes conventional mediations...
Ali Tabari
Business & Property
26/02/2020

Ali Tabari writes for Lexis Nexis on Defective Appointment of Administrators

In the latest example of practitioners falling foul of the numerous tripwires surrounding the appointment of administrators using the CE-Filing system, the decision of Mr Justice Snowden in Re Carter Moore Solicitors [2020] EWHC 186...
Iqbal Mohammed
Business & Property
18/02/2020

Iqbal Mohammed Nominated for Barrister of the Year at BLS Awards

We are delighted to announce that Iqbal Mohammed has been nominated for the Birmingham Law Society Award for Barrister of the Year 2020.  This is the second successive year that Iqbal has been nominated in this category, each time as the most junior...
James Morgan QC
Business & Property
31/01/2020

James Morgan QC successfully acts for trustee in bankruptcy in alleged “mistaken payment” claim (Elston v King [2020] EWHC 55 (Ch))

In late 2014, in compromise of a potential application for an income payments order, Mr Elston entered into an income payments agreement (IPA) with his trustee in respect of uncrystallised pension rights. Subsequently, in Horton v Henry [2017] 1 WLR...
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