Loring –v- Woodland Trust [2014] EWCA Civ 1314

Solicitors acting for a structured credit salesman who had been working for JP Morgan failed to lodge a court document in time.

The Shorter Trials Scheme (STS) aims to limit the time spent when businesses are locked in litigation.

The courts will enforce an adjudicator’s decision even if it is wrong, whether in relation to the facts or the law.

John and Anne Scarle died at home from hypothermia in October 2016 but were not found until worried neighbours telephoned the police.

The Financial Ombudsman Service has extended its scope and can now require financial services businesses to pay compensation of up to £350,000.

Practical completion is one of those terms with which everyone is familiar – but for which there is no clear legal definition.

The 2014 Oxford Farming Conference predicted that the next decade would see an increase in share farming as the shape of the industry changed, with “a divergence between those owning land and those farming (operating) it”.

On 5 July 2017, the Supreme Court handed down its judgement in the case of RFC 2012 Plc (in liquidation) (formerly The Rangers Football Club Plc) v Advocate General for Scotland often referred to as ‘the Rangers big tax case’.

In English law, to make a valid will, a testator must have their signature to it witnessed by two adult independent witnesses. The current social distancing measures together with self-isolation to protect the particularly elderly and vulnerable, therefore present a challenge for private client practitioners: how do we ensure that wills are valid when we can’t stand within 2 metres of one another?