header-logo header-logo

29 April 2020
Issue: 7884 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
printer mail-detail

Law digests: 1 May 2020

Company

Re Debenhams Retail Ltd (in administration) [2020] EWHC 921 (Ch), [2020] All ER (D) 111 (Apr)

The Chancery Division gave directions that the joint administrators of Debenhams Retail Ltd (the company) were at liberty to act on the basis that they would be taken to have adopted, for the purposes of para 99(5) of Sch B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986, any contract of employment between the company and its employees in circumstances where, in respect of any particular employee of employees, at any time after 14 days from the time of their appointment, the administrators had caused the company to make payments to such employee or employees under and in accordance with their employment contracts, including in respect of amounts which could be reimbursed to the company under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (JRS), or the administrators had made an application in respect of such employee or employees under the JRS.


Family proceedings

Re P (a child: remote hearing) [2020]

If you are not a subscriber, subscribe now to read this content
If you are already a subscriber sign in
...or Register for two weeks' free access to subscriber content

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Partner joins commercial property team in Taunton office

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Londstanding London firm appoints new senior partner

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Commercial team in London welcomes technology specialist as partner

NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection? 
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
back-to-top-scroll