ICLR Case Reports and Summaries - last 7 days

FINANCIAL SERVICES — Ombudsman — Jurisdiction — Complaints of unfair credit relationships made to Financial Ombudsman more than six years after unaffordable credit facilities extended to creditors — Ombudsman asserting jurisdiction over entirety of creditor-debtor relationships — Whether ombudsman erring in law — Whether unfair creditor-debtor relationship giving rise to respons...

LANDLORD AND TENANT — Business premises — Occupation — Electronic communications operator holding lease of land with ancillary rights to erect electronic communications apparatus on landlord’s adjoining property — Demised land not occupied but ancillary rights exercised — Whether operator entitled to grant of new code rights under Electronic Communications Code — Whether require...

PRACTICE — Trial — Evidence — Claimants adducing hearsay evidence of important witness’s statements without calling him as witness — At trial claimants applying for permission to rely on further hearsay evidence from witness or to call him to give evidence — Whether further evidence from witness to be admitted — Whether relief from sanctions to be granted — Civil Evidence Act 19...

COMPANY — Reorganisation of debt — Company in financial difficulty — Order convening secured creditor, noteholder and shareholder class meetings to consider restructuring plan — Chairperson voting as proxy for multiple members of class sole attendee at noteholders’ meeting — Whether effective “meeting” — Whether noteholders to be treated as dissenting class despite approving pla...

PLANNING — High speed rail project — Unscheduled works — Local authority declining to approve plans and specifications relating to proposed tunnel extension on basis works not authorised by legislation and lacking deemed planning permission — Secretaries of State overturning authority’s decision and granting approval — Whether works authorised by legislation — Whether proposed d...