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26 September 2019
Issue: 7857 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Weekly law digests

Bank

Nicoll v Promontoria (Ram 2) Ltd [2019] EWHC 2410 (Ch), [2019] All ER (D) 37 (Sep)

The appellant debtor failed in his appeal against the dismissal of his application to dismiss a statutory demand. The Chancery Division held that there had been sufficient evidence to enable the respondent (Promontoria), the assignee of a debt owed by the debtor to a bank, to establish, beyond the balance of probabilities, that the relevant date of assignment had been reached, or that the parties to the assignment had at least treated it as having been reached. The court held that, where the terms of the notice of the assignment, which had emanated from both assignor and assignee, had made it clear that the parties to the assignment had considered it to have been complete, the debtor was not entitled to challenge the title of Promontoria. The evidence before the judge had been sufficient to justify her overall conclusion. The court further allowed Promontoria’s cross-appeal on a procedural point.

Company

Re Syncreon Group BV and another company [2019] EWHC 2412 (Ch), [2019] All ER (D) 38 (Sep)

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Jurit LLP—Caroline Williams

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NEWS
Talk of a reserved ‘Welsh seat’ on the Supreme Court is misplaced. In NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC explains that the Constitutional Reform Act treats ‘England and Wales’ as one jurisdiction, with no statutory Welsh slot
The government’s plan to curb jury trials has sparked ‘jury furore’. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke, partner at Hill Dickinson, says the rationale is ‘grossly inadequate’
A year after the $1.5bn Bybit heist, crypto fraud is booming—but so is recovery. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Holloway, founder and CEO of M2 Recovery, warns that scams hit at least $14bn in 2025, fuelled by ‘pig butchering’ cons and AI deepfakes
After Woodcock confirmed no general duty to warn, debate turns to the criminal law. Writing in NLJ this week, Charles Davey of The Barrister Group urges revival of misprision or a modern equivalent
Family courts are tightening control of expert evidence. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Chris Pamplin says there is ‘no automatic right’ to call experts; attendance must be ‘necessary in the interests of justice’ under FPR Pt 25
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