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Weekly law digests

29 May 2019
Issue: 7842 / Categories: ln court , Law digest
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Company

Re Sturgeon Central Asia Balanced Fund Ltd (in liquidation) [2019] EWHC 1215 (Ch), [2019] All ER (D) 96 (May)

The applicant provisional liquidators’ application for recognition in Great Britain of a company’s liquidation as a ‘foreign main proceeding’ under the Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/1030) succeeded. The Chancery Division held that s 161 of the Bermuda Companies Act 1981 could fairly be described as a ‘law relating to insolvency’, as per Art 2(g) of the UNICTRAL model law. It was clearly right that a winding up on just and equitable grounds could qualify for recognition in circumstances where the entity was insolvent.

Contract

116 Cardamon Ltd v MacAlister and another [2019] EWHC 1200 (Comm), [2019] All ER (D) 97 (May)

The claimant company’s claim succeeded, in part, in a dispute concerning the valuation of a company that it had acquired through a share purchase agreement. The Commercial Court held that there had been breaches of warranty regarding certain of the company’s accounts. Among other things, the accounts had underrated the company’s liability

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

Group partner joins Guernsey banking and finance practice

Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson

Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson

London labour and employment team announces partner hire

Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly

Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly

Double partner appointment marks Belfast expansion

NEWS
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has not done enough to protect the future sustainability of the legal aid market, MPs have warned
Writing in NLJ this week, NLJ columnist Dominic Regan surveys a landscape marked by leapfrog appeals, costs skirmishes and notable retirements. With an appeal in Mazur due to be heard next month, Regan notes that uncertainties remain over who will intervene, and hopes for the involvement of the Lady Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls in deciding the all-important outcome
After the Southport murders and the misinformation that followed, contempt of court law has come under intense scrutiny. In this week's NLJ, Lawrence McNamara and Lauren Schaefer of the Law Commission unpack proposals aimed at restoring clarity without sacrificing fair trial rights
The latest Home Office figures confirm that stop and search remains both controversial and diminished. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort University analyses data showing historically low use of s 1 PACE powers, with drugs searches dominating what remains
Boris Johnson’s 2019 attempt to shut down Parliament remains a constitutional cautionary tale. The move, framed as a routine exercise of the royal prerogative, was in truth an extraordinary effort to sideline Parliament at the height of the Brexit crisis. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC dissects how prorogation was wrongly assumed to be beyond judicial scrutiny, only for the Supreme Court to intervene unanimously
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