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10 October 2025
Issue: 8134 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Law digests: 10 October 2025

Costs

Learning Curve (NE) Group Ltd v Lewis and another [2025] EWHC 2491 (Comm)

The King’s Bench Division addressed consequential matters following an earlier judgment dated 4 August 2025 regarding the defendants’ liability for warranty breaches and indemnity under a share purchase agreement (SPA) dated 29 October 2021. The court found that the claimant’s Part 36 offer of £5,211,625 matched the amount awarded in the judgment and ruled that the defendants failed to demonstrate it was unjust to apply CPR 36.17(4) consequences. The court awarded interest at varying rates corresponding to different timeframes and ruled that the defendants must pay costs on a standard basis before 28 February 2024 and on an indemnity basis thereafter. The defendants’ claim that the claimant acted unreasonably or exaggerated the claim was rejected.


Family proceedings

The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets v TR and others [2025] EWHC 2483 (Fam)

The Family Division of the High Court ruled on a child arrangements application concerning whether a young child (YV) should

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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
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