Mr Becker was adjudged bankrupt on 21 June 2017. On 31 May 2018 his trustees applied under s 279(3) Insolvency Act1986 to suspend the running of his discharge period. An interim order was made on 18 June 2018 followed by
More about Becker v FordThe current position Under the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010), sexual harassment occurs where an individual engages in unwanted conduct of a sexual nature and the conduct has the purpose or effect of either (i) violating an individual’s dignity, or
More about Prevention is better than cure: Employer’s duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplaceMs Sriram was married to Mr Ravi Gupta, although the two were estranged. The judge referred to Mr Gupta’s application for annulment of his bankruptcy (see Re Ravikanth Gupta (also known as Ravikanth Borra)) by way of background. He had found
More about Sriram v Revenue & Customs & AnorThe application was resisted by the first respondent, Hsiao Mei-Lin, the bankrupt’s former spouse, who was in occupation of the property with the two children of the marriage aged 10 and 14 and two lodgers. She opposed it on two
More about Reid-Roberts & Anor v Mei-Lin & AnorThe land had been bought from Mansfield District Council for £156,500 in May 2023 and transferred to the respondents jointly. The respondents were Mr and Mrs Ball. Mr Ball had been a director of both companies and was the sole
More about Kendall & Anor v Ball & Anor (re Sherwood Oak Homes Ltd – Sherwood Oak Holdings Ltd)The application before HHJ Klein, sitting as a High Court Judge, was for an order pursuant to rr 18.24 & 18.28 Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 increasing the amount of the applicants’ remuneration as the joint administrators of The
More about Jeremy Charles Frost & Anor v The Good Box Co Labs Ltd & OrsSome knowledge of the members of the Loveridge family is needed in order to understand the background to the judgment. At the top of the family tree were Ivy Loveridge and her husband Alldey. Michael Loveridge was their son, as
More about Loveridge v Povey & OrsThe claim arose out of the insolvency of Tiuta International Limited. TIL was part of a group of companies, the parent being Tiuta plc, of which it was a wholly-owned subsidiary. Its business was the provision of short-term bridging loans
More about Bouchier & Anor v Booth & AnorMercy Global Consult Ltd provided umbrella payroll services for workers in the health care sector who were proving their service to that sector through recruitment agencies. It used a convoluted billing system which gave rise to a tax investigation which
More about Mercy Global Consult Ltd v AdegbuyiDismissing the claimant’s appeal in Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ 1416, Sir Geoffrey Vos MR (with whom Birss LJ and Carr LCJ agreed), answered both questions in favour of the Council, holding that the claimant
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