Company
Albion Energy Ltd v Energy Investments Global Ltd [2020] EWHC 301 (Comm), [2020] All ER (D) 95 (Feb)
The Commercial Court held that the defendant company was not entitled to a stay of the proceedings, and the claimant company’s application for summary judgment would be allowed, in a dispute concerning sums allegedly payable under a share purchase agreement.
Coroner
R (on the application of Dyer) v HM Assistant Coroner for West Yorkshire (Western) [2019] EWHC 2897 (Admin), [2019] All ER (D) 213 (Oct)
The defendant coroner’s decision to permit 16 police officers to give evidence behind screens would be quashed to the extent that the screens prevented the identified family members of the deceased from seeing the officers give evidence. The Administrative Court, in allowing the claimant’s application for judicial review, held that the coroner had misdirected himself in law and the decision had been irrational because it had failed to take into account the objective risk to the officers in being seen by the family and, in that sense, it had made a greater
