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11 March 2020
Issue: 7878 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Law digests: 13 March 2020

Contract

Filatona Trading Ltd and another v Navigator Equities Ltd and others; Danilina v Chernukhin and others [2020] EWCA Civ 109, [2020] All ER (D) 41 (Feb)

The judge had been correct to find that an individual was an identified and disclosed principal party to a shareholder agreement and, accordingly, entitled to exercise contractual rights under the agreement. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, held that the parties to the agreement had not been unequivocally and exhaustively defined and the judge had been correct to have concluded that the individual and not his nominee was a party to the agreement.

Costs

Butler v Bankside Commercial Ltd [2020] EWCA Civ 203, [2020] All ER (D) 11 (Mar)

The judge had correctly decided that the term at issue in the conditional fee agreement (CFA) entered into between the appellant and the respondent solicitors’ company had triggered the appellant’s liability to pay the sums claimed by the respondent following the appellant’s rejection of the respondent’s opinion,

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gateley Legal—Caroline Pope & Bob Maynard

Gateley Legal—Caroline Pope & Bob Maynard

Construction team bolstered by hire of senior consultant duo

Switalskis—four appointments

Switalskis—four appointments

Firm expands residential conveyancing team with quadruple appointment

mfg Solicitors—Claire Pope

mfg Solicitors—Claire Pope

Private client team welcomes senior associatein Worcester

NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection? 
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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