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Law digests: 12 July 2024

12 July 2024
Issue: 8079 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Contract

Barry and another v Barry [2024] EWHC 1661 (KB), [2024] All ER (D) 05 (Jul)

The Kings Bench Division allowed two elderly parents’ (the claimants’) contractual claim against their son (the defendant) for the recovery of money allegedly loaned to him, which remained outstanding, and which they alleged he still owed for property transactions he had made for his own benefit. The defendant had contended that the transfer of the relevant funds had been an internal family affair, without any intention to create legal relations. Although he had agreed that the claimants had loaned him money concerning three properties, he contended that, subsequently, they had agreed that he could write off the bulk of the money; that the loans personally made to him had been forgiven; and that, although a loan to a company (the company) he controlled with his wife remained outstanding, the company should have been sued, not the defendant. The court ruled, among other things, that: (i) the claimants had loaned the defendant money to help him purchase the properties with

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Mourant—Stephen Alexander

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NEWS
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
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