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Contentious Business Update – May 2022

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Welcome to our Contentious Business Update where we focus on some topical and interesting legal issues affecting businesses. We hope you find this edition informative and insightful.

Partnerships - retiring equity partners, age discrimination and issues of limitation, following the decision in Parr -v- MSR Partners LLP…read more

We look at the first third-party debt order made in the UK Courts in respect of cryptocurrency, in a case involving allegations of crypto-related fraud… read more

With the remaining temporary restrictions created by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 lifted the insolvency regime returns to its pre-pandemic position… read more

We look at the recent decision in McClean & Others -v- Thornhill [2022] EWHC 457 (Ch) which has provided some useful guidance on the establishing of a ‘duty of care’ in professional negligence claims, particularly against legal professionals and ‘third parties’ that were not directly instructed by the prospective claimant… read more

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