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    Insolvency & Restructuring Chambers of the Year at the TRI Awards

    We are delighted to have won Insolvency & Restructuring Chambers of the Year at last night’s TRI (Turnaround, Restructuring & Insolvency) Awards. This follows a headline year for our insolvency team and comes just a week after our sell-out Insolvency Conference... Read more

    Thursday 14 November 2019

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    Interpreting property contracts: Some “special” principles

    Commentary by Julian Greenhill QC When interpreting a property contract the applicable principles are essentially the same as those applied to any other contract. However, it is easy to overlook the fact that there remain some distinct principles of particular... Read more

    Wednesday 13 November 2019

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    Interpreting property contracts: Some “special” principles

    By Julian Greenhill KC
    Wednesday 13 November 2019

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    International charitable trusts and IHT exemption

    By Simon Atkinson
    Friday 8 November 2019

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    International charitable trusts and IHT exemption

    Commentary by Simon Atkinson The Supreme Court, in the recent decision of Routier v Revenue and Customs Commissioners (No 2) [2019] UKSC 43, [2019] 3 WLR 757, has provided valuable guidance as to the scope of s. 23 of the... Read more

    Friday 8 November 2019

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    Joanne Wicks QC wins Real Estate Silk of the Year at Chambers Bar Awards

    We are delighted to report that at yesterday evening’s annual Chambers UK Bar Awards event, Joanne Wicks QC won Real Estate Silk of the Year. The award comes as a result of a standout year of practice in which she has... Read more

    Friday 1 November 2019

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    Recent Cases

    Sequent Nominees Ltd v Hautford Ltd [2019] UKSC 47

    Supreme Court

    Tiffany Scott KC
    Wednesday 30 October 2019

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    Sequent Nominees Ltd v Hautford Ltd [2019] UKSC 47

    Supreme Court by majority of 3 to 2 reverses unanimous Court of Appeal decision in Sequent Nominees Ltd v Hautford Ltd and holds that a landlord’s refusal of consent to an application for change of planning use was reasonable. This... Read more

    Wednesday 30 October 2019

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    Deposits in conveyancing transactions: How does the penalties doctrine apply?

    Commentary by Joseph Steadman Anyone who has been involved in a conveyancing transaction – and many people who haven’t – will know that it is customary to pay a 10% deposit on exchange of contracts. In fact, most of those... Read more

    Friday 25 October 2019

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    Deposits in conveyancing transactions: How does the penalties doctrine apply?

    By Joseph Steadman
    Friday 25 October 2019

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    Recent Cases

    Great Dunmow Estates Limited v Crest Nicholson Operations Ltd & Ors [2019] EWCA Civ 1683

    Court of Appeal

    Jonathan Seitler KC | Tom Roscoe
    Wednesday 23 October 2019

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    Great Dunmow Estates Limited v Crest Nicholson Operations Ltd & Ors [2019] EWCA Civ 1683

    The Court of Appeal has, in Great Dunmow Estates Limited v Crest Nicholson Operations Ltd & Ors [2019] EWCA Civ 1683: (1) held that matters ‘agreed’ in the course of the expert determination could not have contractual effect where the... Read more

    Wednesday 23 October 2019

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