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  • Hunting for squirrels

    United Kingdom 07.09.2001
    In twelve months' time, we will look back and see what was obvious. We will give our commentaries on why, as any fool should have known, yet more familiar names have been transformed, making headlines...

  • Modernisation of insolvency laws

    United Kingdom 19.06.2001
    The modernisation of insolvency laws with the abolition of Crown preference and changes to administrative receivership was announced on 18 June by the Chancellor Gordon Brown. These proposals have been...

  • Contaminated land remediation expenditure relief

    United Kingdom 20.04.2001
    The environment industries have been lobbying for years for a tax relief for the clean-up costs of contaminated land. Such relief was confirmed in the March 2001 Budget. The legislative details are set...

  • Maxwell and the Mirror Group Newspapers plc: The report - What have we learnt?

    United Kingdom 18.04.2001
    We have been warned... The creator of Morse can relax. He is not, after all, to be challenged in the suspense stakes by the authors of last week's DTI report on Mirror Group Newspapers plc. Imagine that...

  • What is a Mortgagee's duty on Sale?

    United Kingdom 17.04.2001
    The extent of the duty of a mortgagee on selling the mortgaged property has recently been considered again in the case of Meftah v Lloyds TSB Bank plc ([2001] All ER (D) 276. The bank had sold as mortgagee...

  • Decision on fixed charges over book debts awaited

    United Kingdom 12.04.2001
    Setting the Scene for Brumark Fixed or Floating Charges over Book Debts - will the Privy Council decision next month resolve the differences between New Bullas and Royal Trust Bank? The New Zealand case...

  • Repayment on Demand

    United Kingdom 03.04.2001
    Where the terms of a facility letter stated that repayment was to be made "on demand", the court has recently held that even though the funds were to be advanced to carry out a project of development,...

  • Liquidator's costs again

    United Kingdom 27.03.2001
    Another case concerning Liquidator's costs has been reported (re Romar Engineering Ltd, NLD 9 March 2001). Law Now has previously reported on the more complex cases of Re Floor Fourteen Limited: Lewis...

  • Pursuing Litigation against a Company in a CVA

    United Kingdom 23.03.2001
    Can a claimant against a company in a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) require that sufficient assets to meet the whole of its claim be retained outside the CVA (to the disadvantage of the other creditors)...

  • Multi-Party Actions

    United Kingdom 21.03.2001
    What is the new English Civil Procedure Rule on group litigation? How will it work in practice? What are the funding issues? How have multi-party rules worked in other jurisdictions? Christopher Hodges,...

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