The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary (CTJ) has published a speech by High Court Judge, Mr Justice Fordham at the Public Law Project's 21st Annual Conference on 16 October 2024. The conference focussed on judicial review trends and forecasts. The speech, titled 'Future perspectives from past experiences', addressed how public law case-law develops, with cases from the past 50 years on public law and human rights. Mr Justice Fordham concluded by highlighting numerous reasons why public law case-law develops and quoted Lord Dyson in Al Rawi v Security Service [2011] UKSC 34 [2012] 1 AC 531, that 'nobody can predict how the law will develop in the future'.

The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary has announced that Mr Justice Foxton provided the opening address at a social mobility workshop organised by the Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR). The event was attended by 125 individuals selected by COMBAR to be mentees as part of its mentoring scheme.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced that the Lord Chancellor has approved the appointment of Mr Justice Peter Fraser as the Chairman of the Law Commission for England and Wales from 1 December 2023 for a period of three years. The appointment was ratified under section 1 of the Law Commissions Act 1965 (LCA 1965).

Where a judgment has been obtained against a natural or legal person, such a judgment can only be enforced against that natural or legal person, and not another person. This is supported by CPR 70.1, which defines the term ‘judgment debtor’ for the purposes of enforcement. CPR 70.1 states: ‘(1) This Part contains general rules about enforcement of judgments and orders. (Rules about specific methods of enforcement are contained in Parts 71 to 73, 81, 83, 84 and 89, and Schedule

Company A obtained the judgment against Mr X in 2007 for the sum of £2,000, which led to the charging order. Is there a presumption that there would be no interest payable on the judgment debt? What happens to the property of a company when it is dissolved? When a company is dissolved, all of its property and rights whatsoever vested in or held on trust for the company immediately before it’s dissolution are deemed bona vacantia by

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An investment partnership.

An investment agent (in a mudaraba contract).

The act of setting fire to ground that is heath or muir for the purposes of good land management.

Clause preventing a lender from enforcing on an initial breach and only permits enforcement if the covenant is breached at a second test date.

Under a multiple package contract (often referred to in the UK as "multi- contracting" or "construction management"), the plant owner, with the assistance of an Architects Engineer (A/E) (or construction manager) and other consultants, assumes overall responsibility for managing the design and construction of the project.

A voluntary agreement between Government and a group of councils covering a functional economic area, working together with local agencies, under which they pledge to boost economic growth and tackle deprivation and financial inequalities in return for action by Government to devolve more and reduce barriers to delivering better outcomes.