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Multimillion bankers’ bonus claim upheld

  • Matheson
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 7 2013

The Court of Appeal in England has upheld a High Court award of more than 50 million in bonuses to a group of 104 bankers (Attrill & Ors v

‘No transaction’ damages in professional negligence cases

  • Matheson
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  • Ireland, United Kingdom
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  • January 15 2013

A number of recent High Court decisions have involved cases in which lenders have taken action against their former legal advisors for negligence

Student fails to impose “super injunction” on national newspapers

  • Matheson
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 27 2013

A student who was wrongly identified in a YouTube clip as being the man guilty of running away without paying a taxi fare, failed last year to

New rules considered on small print in consumer contracts

  • Matheson
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 22 2013

In February 2013, the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation published a consultation paper on the regulation of small print consumer

Failure to inform your client of a key employee's resignation could leave a company liable for breach of contract

  • Matheson
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 13 2010

In Mentmore Towers Limited v Fitzroy Robinson Limited, the High Court in England recently held that an architect’s firm, Fitzroy Robinson Limited ("FRL") was in breach of contract and was guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation, by deliberately withholding from its client, Mentmore Towers Limited, ("MTL") the fact that an employee was resigning

Obligation to negotiate in good faith?

  • Matheson
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  • Ireland, United Kingdom
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  • November 30 2009

Traditionally the common law has refused to recognise a duty to negotiate in good faith in run-of-the-mill transactions between parties acting at arm’s length on the basis that such obligations are too uncertain

Prolonged low interest rate environment poses real challenge for insurers

  • Matheson
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 22 2013

On 4 March 2013, EIOPA published an Opinion on Supervisory Response to a Prolonged Low Interest Rate Environment. In summary, the Opinion states as

Increase in state pension age

  • Matheson
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  • Ireland, United Kingdom
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  • March 27 2013

The Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2011 provided for increases to the age at which the State Pension is payable. The standard State pension age is

Belgard Motors Case - priority to preferential creditors regardless of crystallisation of floating charge

  • Matheson
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  • Ireland, United Kingdom
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  • March 30 2011

In an insolvent winding up, preferential creditors are entitled to be paid first from assets subject to a charge which at the time of creation was floating, regardless of whether the floating charge has crystallised at the commencement of the winding up

English High Court tips the scales in favour of principals in agency contract

  • Matheson
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 2 2010

Recently, the English High Court in McQuillan v McCormick 2010 EWHC 1112 (QB) (the "McQuillan Case") revisited the issue of compensation to agents for termination of their agency contract and set out factors to be considered in the calculation of such compensation

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