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Iqbal Mohammed
Business & Property
02/04/2020

Remote Hearings using Skype Business: An Essential Guide

By Iqbal Mohammed, Barrister Due to government restrictions in response to the coronavirus, courts intend to conduct hearings remotely with Skype for Business, the approved platform for Business & Property Courts. Some have vacated hearings in...
Business & Property
31/03/2020

Amendments to Statements of Truth and Witness Statements

By Kirsty White, Barrister As of 6 April 2020 amendments to Civil Procedure Rules will bring amendments to various practice directions. Of particular note are the amendments to Practice Direction 22, which will require additional wording to a...
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...
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