Building contract
Maelor Foods Ltd v Rawlings Consulting (UK) Ltd [2018] EWHC 1878 (QB), [2018] All ER (D) 177 (Jul)
The claimant employer’s CPR Pt 8 claim, seeking the court’s determination of issues of law which arose in an adjudication, was the subject matter of an arbitration agreement. Accordingly, the Technology and Construction Court, allowed the defendant contractor’s application to stay proceedings.
Costs
Ashdown and others v Griffin and others [2018] EWCA Civ 1793, [2018] All ER (D) 109 (Aug)
Although it was found that the affairs of the company had been conducted in a manner which was unfairly prejudicial to the interests of the petitioners, the respondents were to be regarded as the ‘successful’ parties within the meaning of CPR 44.2(2)(a). The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, held that the petitioners were to pay the respondents costs to be assessed on the standard basis if not agreed.
Family proceedings
Re B (A Child: Immunisation) [2018] EWFC 56, [2018] All ER (D) 11 (Sep)
It was in B, a five-year-old child’s, best welfare interests
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