The defendant underwriters applied to set aside an order permitting the claimant to amend and re-issue his claim form so as to strike out the first and second defendants and re-name the third defendants. The claimant, a jeweller, claimed to have lost valuable items in a theft which occurred on 17 February 2009 and … Continue reading DANNY MAMAN (T/A FINE WATCHES & JEWELLERY) v CERTAIN LLOYD’S UNDERWRITERS (2016)
Month: April 2017
BROWN & ANOR (JOINT ADMINISTRATORS OF LOANWELL LTD) v STONEGALE LTD (2016)
A company (C1) and its director (J) appealed against a decision ([2015] CSIH 12, 2015 S.C.L.R. 619) that the dispositions of four properties to them amounted to "gratuitous alienations" for the purposes of the Insolvency Act 1986 s.242. The dispositions had been made by a group of three companies (G) controlled by J's father (S). … Continue reading BROWN & ANOR (JOINT ADMINISTRATORS OF LOANWELL LTD) v STONEGALE LTD (2016)
R (on the application of SAVE BRITAIN’S HERITAGE) v (1) LIVERPOOL CITY COUNCIL (2016)
The Court of Appeal considered the effect of relevant planning policy and guidance in relation to an appeal against the grant of planning permission for the development of properties within the buffer zone of the Liverpool World Heritage Site. Judgment reserved.
R v JIMMI DYER (2016)
The appellant (D) appealed against a sentence of eight years' imprisonment imposed following his guilty plea to rape. D was 56 years old. When aged 28 he had raped the victim as she walked home during the early hours of the morning. Seizing her from behind by putting his arm around her neck, he had … Continue reading R v JIMMI DYER (2016)