Philip Rubens has joined Teacher Stern as a Partner in our Dispute Resolution department. He moved from the respected financial services litigation boutique firm, Cooke, Young & Keidan. Philip has a broad experience, having acted for a range of clients including hedge funds, bankers, senior management and brokers, as well as completing a 6 month secondment to the FSA (now FCA).
On 21 July 2016, an increase in the fees for bankruptcy and company insolvency came into force. The new fees will apply to any petition which is lodged with the Adjudicator or filed with the court on or after 21 July 2016. The new fee structure will also apply to any bankruptcy order or compulsory winding up order made on [...]
Informal contract variation cases are a bit like London buses - you wait years for one and then you get a convoy. Last week's Court of Appeal decision in MWB v Rock has settled the argument. Anti-informal variation clauses do not, as a matter of law, prevent informal variation of contracts. However, that is not quite the same as saying [...]
Laura Bushaway highlights a number of changes to be implemented by the Housing and Planning Act 2016 in relation to landlords/property managers of residential properties in England. The Act was approved by Parliament on 12 May 2016. Below are some key provisions of the Act. These are not currently in force:- Limitation of administration charges The Act empowers Courts, the First-Tier Tribunal [...]
It is the standard practice in legal proceedings that both parties to a dispute should be heard before an issue is decided by a court. The exception to this basic principle is where an application is heard ex parte, or without notice to the other side in proceedings. There are several forms of application that necessitate being heard in this [...]
For all corporate insolvencies starting on or after 6 April 2016 insolvency office-holders are now required to submit a report on the conduct of anyone who was a director of the insolvent company in the 3 years leading up to the insolvency, irrespective of their conduct. Currently, reports are only required where office-holders consider a director’s conduct makes them unfit [...]
Laura Bushaway and Michael Daniels examine the new regime for landlords and their agents to carry out immigration checks on tenants prior to the grant of tenancies and the requirement for certain properties to be licensed under selective licensing schemes operated by local authorities in some areas of the UK. Right to Rent: Immigration Act 2014 (Commencement No. 6) Order [...]
From 1 October 2015 the minimum debt in respect of which a bankruptcy petition can be presented is increased to £5,000. The previous bankruptcy limit of £750 had been in place since the modern....
The following changes which came into effect on 1 October 2015 will be of interest to insolvency practitioners and other professionals who deal with insolvency law...
Section 21 Notices: Changes from 1 October 2015 Following our article in March regarding the proposed changes to the way landlords may obtain possession of Assured Shorthold Tenancies (ASTs), Laura Bushaway provides an update on the changes to Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 as a result of the Deregulation Act 2015, which will come into force on 1 [...]
