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05 August 2016
Issue: 7710 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Insolvency

Bailey and another v Angove’s Pty Ltd [2016] UKSC 47, [2016] All ER (D) 147 (Jul) [2016] EWHC 1786 (QB), [2016] All ER (D) 01 (Aug)

The Supreme Court, in allowing an appeal by an Austrian wine-making company (APL), held that APL’s notice to another company (D&D), which had distributed wine as APL’s agent in the UK, had been immediately effective to terminate D&D’s authority to collect on outstanding invoices. It was declared that the proceeds of the invoices were payable to the company.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Clyde & Co—Suriya Ashok

Clyde & Co—Suriya Ashok

Clyde Co strengthens energy transition and construction offering with hire of Suriya Ashok

Jurit—Nicole Gallop Mildon

Jurit—Nicole Gallop Mildon

Jurit appoints rare dual-qualified lawyer to expand Anglo-French private wealth expertise

NEWS
The Supreme Court has settled a long-running dispute over part-time workers: unfavourable treatment need be a significant or effective cause, not the sole cause
Arbitration may be private, but its confidentiality is no impenetrable shield. Writing in NLJ this week, James Glaysher of Kingsley Napley examines when courts will permit arbitral material to surface in open litigation
The Financial Reporting Council’s revised Audit Enforcement Procedure will alter the balance of power in corporate investigations
A telecoms operator may be able to hold over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, yet still be unable to secure a renewal: an outcome described as a legal ‘paradox’

Safety fears do not automatically justify shutting an interested person out of a statutory will application

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