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Civil way: 5 April 2019

04 April 2019
Issue: 7835 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Missing persons; letting agents targeted; more bingo & forfeiture traps 

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

We found you the husband in Cowan v Cowan [2001] EWCA Civ 679 last time ('Civil way', NLJ 22 March 2019, p14), albeit that he had by then shuffled off this mortal coil. Alas, I fancy that Old Man Bundy is no more and the remains of the snail in Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 cannot be located. The good news is that the husband in Charman v Charman (No 4) [2007] EWCA Civ 503 which he left with £83m in his pocket less legal fees—a post Miller case on the sharing principle in relation to non-matrimonial property—is alive and litigating and has been detected by the Civil Way radar.

We picked up John Charman in the first tier tax tribunal in Charman v HMRC [2018] UKFTT 765 (TC) where he was challenging tax assessments for circa £13m on the primary ground that at no material time was he resident in the UK. He was partially

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
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