Month: September 2020

The government is urging all adults in England and Wales to download the NHS covid-19 smartphone app as an additional way of tackling the spread of the virus.However, experts have questioned how… Article source: http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/recent/~3/MwsXoY9Vk_s/bmj.m3751.short

Catchwords: CIVIL PROCEDURE – Pleadings – Striking out – No reasonable cause of action or defence – Tendency to cause embarrassment – whether plaintiff’s claims should be struck out or dismissed – where plaintiff claims liquidated damages for delay, damages for failure to complete contract works, restitution for overpayments and an entitlement to set-off debts…

Catchwords: SUCCESSION – contested probate – testamentary capacity – soundness of mind, memory and understanding – litigious dispute between testator and family members concerning restructuring of family investments – testamentary provisions giving control of family companies, unit trust and discretionary trusts – testamentary provisions for claw-back of monies from bequests to beneficiaries – knowledge and…

Catchwords: LIMITATION OF ACTIONS – LIMITATION OF PARTICULAR ACTIONS – TRUSTS AND DECEASED ESTATES – STATUTORY PROVISIONS IN TRUSTEE ACTS LIMITATION OF ACTIONS – LIMITATION OF PARTICULAR ACTIONS – TRUSTS AND DECEASED ESTATES – ACTIONS AGAINST DECEASED ESTATES SUCCESSION – ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATE – DISTRIBUTION – OTHER MATTERS https://jade.io/viewArticle.html?aid=767196&pid=-1&h=1502666671

New Statesman; 09/25/2020(AN 146046713); ISSN: 13647431Academic Search Complete Article source: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=a9h&AN=146046713&site=ehost-live&custid=s2775460

Catchwords: ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – Judicial review – Adjudicator’s determination under Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2002 – Applicant failed to provide payment schedule in response to builder’s payment claim and barred from providing adjudication response – Whether adjudicator impermissibly drew adverse inference that applicant incapable of credibly challenging payment claim – Permissible…

Catchwords: CONSUMER LAW – enforcement and remedies – compensation orders – proceedings brought by Commissioner on behalf of consumers – consumers purchased moveable dwellings and entered into occupation agreements with respondents – appellants represented that terms of agreements preventing permanent residence would not be enforced – permanent residence precluded by development consent – no challenge…

Catchwords: CONTRACTS – breach of contract – whether force majeure clause excused the appellant’s breaches – appellant bore the onus of establishing the applicability of the clause – clause provided an exception to, rather than a qualification of, the appellant’s promises CONTRACTS – damages – whether damages for wasted expenditure or reliance damages can only…

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against Germany-based automaker BMW AG and two of its U.S. subsidiaries for disclosing inaccurate and misleading information about BMW’s retail sales volume in the U.S. while raising… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-223

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Chicago-area engine manufacturing company Power Solutions International Inc., has agreed to settle accounting fraud charges related to the company’s overstatement of revenues by almost $25… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-222