Two High Court decisions published on the same day (though handed down on different dates) have considered, respectively, the ability of a qualifying floating charge holder and an insolvent company's directors to use the courts' electronic filing system to file a notice of appointment of an …
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Counsel fee not fixed for claim which left protocol
Counsel fees for a case which dropped out of the pre-action protocol do not need to be fixed, a senior costs judge has ruled. Master Brown, sitting in the High Court (Senior Courts Costs Office), rejected an appeal from the defendant in Dover v Finsbury Food Group Plc to restrict costs to the fixed …
Email sign off and binding agreements
In the recent case of Neocleous & Anor v Rees the court took the point that an email sign off was enough to render an agreement of a contract or an offer. In light of this judgement we place notice to all that any email sign off by this Firm does not constitute an agreement and any agreement …