Trustees in Bankruptcy Not Liable for Existing Costs Orders

From 6 April 2015 the County Court is to have concurrent jurisdiction with the High Court to deal with company matters in London.

Third party funders were found to be liable to pay indemnity costs ordered against the party funded by them.

Barclays Bank fails on a summary strike-out application in respect of a mis-selling claim bought more than six years after the contract was entered into.

With effect from tomorrow, 13th June 2014, new regulations will come into force replacing the Distance Selling Regulations 2000 and Off-Premises (Doorstep) Regulations 2008.

The Court of Appeal has now given judgment in the long-awaited case of Re Game Retail Limited. Predictably, the court has followed the route of expediency and held that, where an officeholder occupies a leasehold property for the purposes of the administration or the liquidation, the company's liability to rent accrues as an expense of the administration. Furthermore, in assessing the liability, the rent is to be treated as accruing on a daily basis and not by reference to the period during which rent accrued prior to the liquidation or administration of the company – to this extent it will be a matter of fact to determine the period for which the officeholder will be required to pay for the company's occupation.