Weekly law digests

The claimant owners’ applications to challenge an award for serious irregularity failed, in a claim relating to the time-chartering of a vessel. The Commercial Court held that, among other things, the delay in the case had not constituted a basis of challenge. Nor had the court erred in its assessment of damages.

Company

Crumpler and another (Joint liquidators of Peak Hotels and Resorts Ltd in liquidation) v Candey Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 2256, [2018] All ER (D) 78 (Oct)

The appellant liquidators’ appeal failed, in a case concerning money paid into court as security for the respondent solicitors’ fees, by a company that had entered liquidation. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, held that the company had retained the property in the money that it had paid into court, the money had thus continued to be one of its existing assets, and so it had been able to charge its interest in it to the solicitors by the charge.

Contract

University