• Freetown Ltd v Assethold Ltd

    Boundary Party wall. The Queen's Bench Division held that the appellant's appeal against an award of a third surveyor would be struck out as it was outside the 14 day time limit in s 10(17) of the Party Walls Act 1996.

    [2012] All ER (D) 151 (May) | Mon, 21/05/2012

  • Shaker v Vistajet Group Holding SA

    Practice Summary judgment. The Commercial Court of the Queen's Bench Division held that the defendant had no real prospect of successfully defending a claim for the return of a claimant's deposit of US$3.55m in respect of the intended purchase of an...

    [2012] All ER (D) 141 (May) | Fri, 18/05/2012

  • Mattu v University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

    National Health Service Hospital. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, in dismissing the claimant employee's appeal, held, inter alia, that the defendant employer Trust's disciplinary proceedings had not breached art6 of the European Convention on...

    [2012] All ER (D) 153 (May) | Fri, 18/05/2012

  • Humphreys v Revenue and Customs Commissioners

    Social security Child benefit. The Supreme Court, in dismissing a minority carer father's appeal against a decision of the Court of Appeal, held that indirect discrimination against men flowing from the requirement, pursuant to the Child Tax Credit...

    [2012] All ER (D) 124 (May) | Wed, 16/05/2012

  • Hemming (t/a Simply Pleasure Ltd) and others v Westminster City Council

    Sex establishment Control. The Administrative Court held that the defendant local authority had to determine a reasonable licence fee for sex establishments in Westminster for 2011-12 and that such a fee could not take into account the cost of...

    [2012] All ER (D) 158 (May) | Wed, 16/05/2012

  • JSC BTA Bank v Mukhtar Ablyazov and others

    Practice Pre-trial or post-judgment relief. The Commercial Court of the Queen's Bench Division held that, whist it had jurisdiction, pursuant to s37 of the to make an order for disclosure of the contact details held by solicitors for Mukhtar Ablyazov...

    [2012] All ER (D) 118 (May) | Tue, 15/05/2012

  • R and C Electrical Engineers Ltd v Shaylor Construction Ltd

    Building contract Adjudication. The Technology and Construction Court refused the claimant immediate payment of a sum found owing under a sub-contract by an adjudicator on the basis that the contractual machinery in relation to payment after final...

    [2012] All ER (D) 129 (May) | Tue, 15/05/2012

  • Re D (a child) (care proceedings: ordinary residence)

    Child Care. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, held that the reference to 'a child' in s105(6) of the was intended to be a reference to the child who was the subject of proceedings under that Act and whose ordinary residence needed to be defined...

    [2012] All ER (D) 116 (May) | Mon, 14/05/2012

  • Procter & Gamble Co v Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA and another company

    Employment Continuity. The Chancery Division held that rights to be considered for early retirement benefits and to accrue further service up to 15 years' service transferred under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations...

    [2012] All ER (D) 133 (May) | Mon, 14/05/2012

  • Edenwest Ltd v CMS Cameron McKenna

    Company Receiver. The Chancery Division allowed the defendant's application for summary judgment in a claim involving professional negligence brought by the claimant company following an administrative receivership, where on the evidence the claimant...

    [2012] All ER (D) 136 (May) | Mon, 14/05/2012