Company
Re The Property Group (2010) Ltd and other companies [2020] EWHC 1751 (Ch), [2020] All ER (D) 62 (Jul)
The claimant Competition and Markets Authority’s claim succeeded in proceedings concerning a cartel in estate and letting agency businesses. The Chancery Division held that the defendant had breached his duties owed to a company of which he was a director and his duties as a director of all three companies in issue, by helping them to fix a minimum level of commission fees for property sales agency services in the Burnham-on-Sea area. The defendant was disqualified as a director for seven years.
Family proceedings
A local authority v M and another [2020] Lexis Citation 269, [2020] All ER (D) 65 (Jul)
On the balance of probabilities, it was held that the father had struck the youngest of two children during the relevant period, and that he had failed to seek medical treatment which would have exposed the injury, in spite of persistent advice from the grandmother. Accordingly, the Family Court held, and it was agreed, that the children should be placed
