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10 January 2014
Issue: 7589 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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Insolvency

Re Storm Funding Ltd (in Administration) [2013] EWHC 4019 (Ch), [2013] All ER (D) 217 (Dec)

The administrators of 14 companies in the Lehman Brothers group (the applicants) applied for directions as to the potential liabilities of those companies to make payments to or for the benefit of the Lehman Brothers pension scheme. The Commercial Court held that, on the true construction of the relevant provisions of the Pension Act 2004, contribution notices might be issued under s 47 of the Act to more than one qualifying target which, in aggregate, specified a sum in excess of the maximum shortfall sum, as defined in s 48(2) of the Act and there might be recovered, under such contribution notices an aggregate sum in excess of the shortfall sum.

 

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Fieldfisher—Will Sharp

Fieldfisher—Will Sharp

Fieldfisher boosts structured finance practice with appointment of Will Sharp

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gunnercooke grows its life sciences team with new partner hires

Leonard Curtis Legal—Mark Maguire & Kane Jones

Leonard Curtis Legal—Mark Maguire & Kane Jones

Leonard Curtis Legal expands corporate team with twonew appointments

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Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete
Possession claims are entering a new digital era, with procedural traps awaiting practitioners who assume familiar rules still govern every step
A polished legal defence may owe more to artificial intelligence than legal merit—and creditors risk paying the price in delay and expense
An indemnity costs battle with a £20m gap could reopen an important question: what weight should an approved budget carry?
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