Wedlake Bell Insights

    • Insights
    • Nov 2, 2023

    Supreme Court decision: Administrator not an officer of company

    If an employer intends to make 20 or more employees redundant, at one establishment, within a 90-day period, they must notify the Secretary of State at least 30 days before the first dismissal, as per Section 193(2) of the Trade

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    • Insights
    • Nov 1, 2023

    Bridger & Co Ltd v Specialist Lending Ltd

    In Bridger & Co Ltd v Specialist Lending Ltd (t/a Duologi) [2023] EWHC 2562 (Ch) Deputy ICC Judge Curl KC dismissed an application for an injunction to restrain Specialist Lending Limited from advertising a winding up petition presented against Bridger

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    • Building Safety Act
    • Oct 19, 2023

    Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) – Gateway regime

    The new building control gateway approval regime applies to Higher Risk Buildings (“HRBs”) as defined in The Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023 (the Description Regulations). The gateway regime requirements and procedures are set out in the Building

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    • Insights
    • Oct 18, 2023

    A new right to request predictable working

    On 18 September 2023 the Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Bill received Royal Assent, becoming an Act of Parliament. It is envisaged that the measures will come in to force in or around September 2024. The purpose of the new

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    • Insights
    • Oct 16, 2023

    Lemos v Church Bay Trust Company Limited

    Joanne Wicks KC’s judgment in Lemos & Ors v Church Bay Trust Company Ltd & Ors [2023] EWHC 2384 (Ch) deals with a claim under s 423 Insolvency Act 1986 and again shows how difficult it can be to make

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    • Insights
    • Oct 11, 2023

    Sunset Ltd & Anor v Al-hindi

    The petition in this case was presented against Mr Al-Hindi by Sunset Limited and Morville Limited on 23 June 2022 based on his failure to comply with statutory demands dated 29 March 2022 claiming £248,750 said to be due by

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    • Insights
    • Oct 6, 2023

    Online safety act 2023: Internet of order or internet of scrutiny

    With the Online Safety Act 2023 (“OSA“) expected to be passed into law in October 2023, it is important to understand its wide-ranging impact on businesses. The OSA aims to protect children and tackle illegal and harmful content online. It

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    • Globally Speaking
    • Sep 28, 2023

    (US) buyer beware

    Caveat Emptor translated from Latin means “let the buyer beware”, the saying typically afforded to buyers of residential property in the UK on the basis that they buy at their own risk, with potential buyers warned at the outset to

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    • Globally Speaking
    • Sep 28, 2023

    Shareholder disputes: How did it come to this?

    I probably won’t live this down but I have a musical guilty pleasure in country and western, specifically Taylor Swift. I didn’t think that weakness would ever overlap with work. To be fair, Taylor probably wasn’t thinking about section 994

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