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Law digests: 18 October 2024

18 October 2024
Issue: 8090 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Bankruptcy

Cooper and others v Dashi (aka Rugova) and other companies [2024] EWHC 2102 (Ch), [2024] All ER (D) 56 (Aug)

The Chancery Division made rulings on applications made by the joint trustees in bankruptcy of EW. Among other things, the respondents would not be required to make further disclosure of documents. The court held that it would not make an order for the examination of the first respondent (D), who had made two witness statements. No evidence had been produced that would allow it to hold that the statements of D were untrue.


Housing

R (on application of RR) v London Borough of Enfield [2024] EWHC 2501 (Admin), [2024] All ER (D) 09 (Oct)

The Administrative Court dismissed the claimant’s judicial review claim of the defendant local authority’s allocation scheme of social housing (the scheme) in circumstances where the claimant who acted as a full-time carer for his wife and two young children had been allocated a small one-bedroomed flat as temporary accommodation under a points system for housing priority. The claimant

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Freeths—Ruth Clare

National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Partner appointed head of family team

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

NEWS
Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)
The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness
A Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruling has reopened debate on the availability of ‘user damages’ in competition claims. Writing in NLJ this week, Edward Nyman of Hausfeld explains how the CAT allowed Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen’s alternative damages case against Meta to proceed, rejecting arguments that such damages are barred in competition law
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