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Law digests: 24 July 2020

21 July 2020
Issue: 7896 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Company

Re The Property Group (2010) Ltd and other companies [2020] EWHC 1751 (Ch), [2020] All ER (D) 62 (Jul)

The claimant Competition and Markets Authority’s claim succeeded in proceedings concerning a cartel in estate and letting agency businesses. The Chancery Division held that the defendant had breached his duties owed to a company of which he was a director and his duties as a director of all three companies in issue, by helping them to fix a minimum level of commission fees for property sales agency services in the Burnham-on-Sea area. The defendant was disqualified as a director for seven years.


Family proceedings

A local authority v M and another [2020] Lexis Citation 269, [2020] All ER (D) 65 (Jul)

On the balance of probabilities, it was held that the father had struck the youngest of two children during the relevant period, and that he had failed to seek medical treatment which would have exposed the injury, in spite of persistent advice from the grandmother. Accordingly, the Family Court

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Freeths—Ruth Clare

National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Partner appointed head of family team

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

NEWS
Law students and graduates can now apply to qualify as solicitors and barristers with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)
Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)
The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness
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