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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

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

NEWS
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
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