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Law digests: 16 October 2020

15 October 2020
Issue: 7906 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Company

Re High Street Rooftop Holdings Ltd [2020] EWHC 2572 (Ch), [2020] All ER (D) 23 (Oct)

Strategic Advantage SPC (the applicant) successfully applied for an administration order in relation to High Street Rooftop Holdings Ltd (the company) following events of default which had resulted in the security constituted by the debenture becoming immediately enforceable. In granting the application, the Chancery Division held that it would be wrong to deny the applicant its right to enforce the terms of the debenture in circumstances where the company’s debt was far from sufficiently secured and, on the balance of probabilities, the company was insolvent.


Conflict of laws

Maduro Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela v Guaidó Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela [2020] EWCA Civ 1249, [2020] All ER (D) 24 (Oct)

An appeal of two preliminary issues arising in a dispute involving the entitlement of persons or bodies to give instructions to financial institutions in the UK on behalf of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), with regard to gold

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Druces LLP—Afsor Ullah

Druces LLP—Afsor Ullah

Partner appointed head of Islamic finance

Birketts—Rachel Frost-Smith

Birketts—Rachel Frost-Smith

Legal director named as new head of children

Kingsley Napley—Tristan Cox-Chung

Kingsley Napley—Tristan Cox-Chung

Firm bolsters restructuring and insolvency team with partner hire

NEWS
Criminal defence lawyers have expressed dismay at the Lord Chancellor David Lammy’s plans to reduce the backlog by scaling back jury trials to murder, rape, homicide and other indictable crimes where the sentence is three years or more
MPs will vote next week on an amendment to fast-track the change to the unfair dismissal qualifying period, as the government’s flagship Employment Rights Bill returns to the Commons
Barristers have been warned to be on guard against anthropomorphism, hallucinations, information disorder, bias in data training, mistakes, data protection blunders and confidential data leaks when using generative artificial intelligence (AI)
Legal aid lawyers have welcomed increased fees for criminal, housing and immigration work
Public willingness to take part in class actions is rising, according to annual research by communications consultancy Portland
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