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23 June 2017
Issue: 7751 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Civil way: 23 June 2017

119 year service; clutter clearance & picking up litigation

The ‘old ones’ are the best

My lecturer at the College of Law (before it morphed into something else and its profits were hit) assured us on introducing equity as the subject for study that it was ‘a load of nebulous c**p’. He had a point—but only to a point. Provided hands are clean, it can do a litigant a power of good. Take the equitable doctrine of exoneration, for example. You may have popped into the Court of Appeal when judgments were being delivered in Paget v Paget [1898] 1 Ch 470 which was big on exoneration. It has taken 119 years for the equity to return to the Court of Appeal in Armstrong (as Trustee in Bankruptcy of Onyearu) v Onyearu and another [2017] EWCA Civ 268.

This is how the equity works. If property is jointly owned by A and B and is charged by A to secure the debts of B only, it is presumed that A intended to enter into

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

Senior appointments in insurance services and commercial services announced

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Aviation disputes practice strengthened by London partner hire

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Residential property lawyer promoted to partnership

NEWS
he abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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