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07 February 2025
Issue: 8103 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Law digests: 7 February 2025

Case management

Okuashvili and others v Ivanishvili and others [2025] EWHC 165 (Ch)

This is an application by Mr Okuashvili to allow new expert and witness evidence to be adduced in his claims to set aside service out of the jurisdiction against multiple defendants. The evidence had not been served in accordance with the case management timetable set by the court. The court considered the reason for the default—that there had been a change in representation, and during the course of that change in representation, evidence which was intended to be prepared and served was not prepared and served—was unsatisfactory. Further, in regard to the witness statement, the court took into account the new factual assertions which were contested and the lateness at which evidence had been served, such that the defendants had not had opportunity to respond in not permitting the late filling of either of the items of further evidence.


Contract

Omanovic v Shamaazi Ltd and another [2025] EWHC 131 (KB)

The court ruled on the claimant’s application for

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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