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02 June 2020
Issue: 7889 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Law digests: 5 June 2020

Bankruptcy

Gertner and another v CFL Finance Ltd [2020] EWHC 1241 (Ch), [2020] All ER (D) 147 (May)

The judge’s order, refusing the first appellant’s application to stay the hearing of the respondent’s bankruptcy petition and making him bankrupt, had to be set aside. The Chancery Division, in allowing the appellants’ appeals, held that, since the first appellant’s proposal for a voluntary arrangement supported by its largest creditor would, inevitably, be approved and since there was no basis for any suggestion that the good faith rule would cause the creditor’s approval (which was determinative) to be tainted, the judge had exercised his discretion on the basis of immaterial factors.


Child

Re H (a child) (parental responsibility: vaccination) [2020] EWCA Civ 664, [2020] All ER (D) 152 (May)

The judge had been correct to find that the vaccination of a healthy child in care was a matter which a local authority could properly consent to and arrange pursuant to its powers under s 33 of the Children Act 1989

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