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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...
Ali Tabari
Business & Property
02/12/2019

Ali Tabari successful in application to validate out-of-hours administration appointment

In a High Court decision before HHJ Cooke (Re All Star Leisure (Group) Limited [2019] EWHC 3231 (Ch)), Ali Tabari represented the applicant successfully seeking to confirm the validity of an administration appointment in the wake of recent...
Gavin Mcleod
Business & Property
27/09/2019

Gavin McLeod published in leading property law journal

Gavin McLeod has written an article on the recent Supreme Court case of Regency Villas v Diamond Resorts on the nature and scope of easements as property interests. It has been published in The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, a leading academic...
Rob Mundy
Business & Property
19/09/2019

Rob Mundy successful in challenge to £21m proof of debt

His Honour Judge Worster recently handed down judgment in the insolvency case Poole v Hinton [2019] EWHC 2331 (Ch). Colin Poole, the former chief executive of Claims Direct plc, was successful in his chal-lenge to his trustee in bankruptcy’s...
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