‘Half a million more people were summoned to court last year over unpaid council tax, after benefits protecting low-income families from paying it were scrapped.’
The Independent, 6th April 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The City regulator has uncovered a litany of unfair practices at payday lenders including sending threatening text messages, pursuing customers for the wrong amount and misleading people about the effect of non-payment on their credit rating.’
The Guardian, 10th March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Anita Mehta, barrister of Crown Office Row, Brighton, argues that Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 applications should not be regarded as the domain of footballers’ girlfriends or the uber-wealthy but as a powerful tool for meeting children’s needs in a wide variety of cases.’
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Family Law Week, 6th February 2015
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘UK procedures allowing businesses to restructure in order to avoid insolvency already meet EU plans for a more ‘rescue-orientated’ approach to business failure and insolvency, according to a discussion document published by the Insolvency Service.’
OUT-LAW.com, 10th February 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Trustees in bankruptcy should not be able to access a bankrupt pension scheme member’s savings for the purposes of paying off debts, a High Court judge has ruled, contradicting a 2012 decision of the same court.’
OUT-LAW.com, 8th January 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Two Latvian men have been found guilty of acting as illegal gangmasters, supplying Latvian and Lithuanian workers from the Wisbech area to pick leeks, cabbages, broccoli and flowers, for supermarket supply chains across East Anglia.’
The Guardian, 18th December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Salford Estates (No 2) Ltd v Altomart Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 157; [2014] WLR (D) 527
‘The stay provisions in section 9(1) of the Arbitration Act 1996 did not apply to a winding up petition where the ground of the petition was that the company was unable to pay its debts and what was in dispute was that issue generally or, more specifically, whether there was outstanding and due a particular debt mentioned in the petition.’
WLR Daily, 8th December 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The legal aid bill is being slashed by £300m without research into the potential effect of the cuts, the most senior civil servant at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has admitted.’
The Independent, 5th Decemeber 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A new market for trading the pension debts of insolvent companies will be created as a result of a recent High Court ruling. The ruling will also result in more efficient, earlier winding up of pension schemes when companies go out of business.’
OUT-LAW.com, 4th December 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Some of the oldest surviving legislation on Britain’s statute books is set to be repealed after 747 years.’
BBC News, 5th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Lenders must be careful to ensure that they do not lose the right to enforce their remaining rights under a security agreement when they choose to enforce only part of it, the Court of Appeal has warned.’
OUT-LAW.com, 20th October 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a TV advert by payday lender Wonga, after a complaint by a charity.’
BBC News, 8th October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An action for the payment of a debt based on the provision of carriage services taken by the insolvency administrator of an insolvent undertaking in the course of insolvency proceedings opened in one member state and taken against a service recipient established in another member state came under the concept of “civil and commercial matters” within the meaning of article 1(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001. Moreover, article 71 of Regulation No 44/2001 meant that, in a situation where a dispute fell within the scope of both that regulation and the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road, as amended, a member state could, in accordance with article 71(1) of that Regulation, apply the rules concerning jurisdiction laid down in article 31(1) of that Convention.’
WLR Daily, 4th September 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Charges arising under deemed contracts for supplies of gas and electricity to retail premises after the companies had entered into administration and after the premises had been vacated by the companies were provable debts within rule 13(12(1)(b) of the Insolvency Rules 1986.’
WLR Daily, 31st July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘ When Harry Moore was taken to court over spiralling credit card debts, he faced losing both his home and business. Mr Moore, 43, had built up a balance of more than £13,000 on an MBNA credit card, and had failed to meet repayments. His debts were passed from MBNA to a debt recovery agency, Hillesden Securities, which in November 2013 took him to court. But the case was thrown out – because the orginal agreement was “impossible to read”.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th July 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Novoship (UK) Ltd and others v Nikitin and others [2014] EWCA 908; [2014] WLR (D) 297
‘The remedy of an account of profits was available against one who dishonestly assisted a fiduciary to breach his fiduciary obligations, even if that breach did not involve a misapplication of trust property.
WLR Daily, 4th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘HMRC chief Lin Homer indicates proposed powers to raid bank accounts of debtors could be extended to TV Licensing and DVLA, as MPs warn they violate Magna Carta.’
Daily Telegraph, 8th July 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A gambling addict is suing the Ritz casino after betting and losing £2m in one evening.’
BBC News, 3rd July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Payday lender Wonga must pay £2.6m in compensation after sending letters from non-existent law firms to customers in arrears.’
BBC News, 25th June 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Debt-ridden businessman Sanjay Kumar faked his own death to claim millions of pounds in life insurance.’
Daily Telegraph, 17th June 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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