ICLR Case Reports and Summaries - last 7 days

ARBITRATION — Award — Enforcement — Arbitrators’ power to amend award not subject to time limits — Court granting party permission to enforce award — Whether arbitrators’ unlimited amendment power preventing award being final and enforceable — Whether statutory default time limits validating clause — Whether enforcement order wrongly granted — Arbitration Act 1996 (c 23), s 57

COMPETITION — Collective proceedings — Costs — Proposed class representative stating in witness statement accompanying claim form that terms of funding arrangement being finalised — Negotiations between representative and funder subsequently breaking down — Extent of representative’s duty to inform Competition Appeal Tribunal and proposed defendants of material change of circums...

CONSUMER PROTECTION — Advertising — Price — Trader charging processing fee if total value of order below certain amount — Whether necessary to include fee in “selling price” — Parliament and Council Directive 98/6/EC, art 2(a)

JUDICIAL REVIEW — Practice — Interim relief — Claimant arriving in UK clandestinely and claiming to be child — Defendant local authority assessing claimant to be adult — Second local authority subsequently accommodating claimant as child — Claimant seeking judicial review of age assessment of defendant authority — Judge granting interim relief — Whether threshold test for grant ...

COMPANY — Shareholder — Rights against company or directors — Directors preventing company from circulating shareholder written resolutions — Statute containing express criminal sanction for failure to circulate written resolution following valid request — Whether criminal sanction implicitly excluding court’s power to grant relief to shareholder — Companies Act 2006 (c 46), ss ...