Pre-packs – administrators’ duties
March 2018 IP nicks phoenix fee: If you know you have a potential conflict of interest you should try all the harder not to be adversely influenced by it. When marking team squash matches I tend as a result to give more decisions in favour of the opposition. Playing a cricket match I once in my stint as umpire gave a hat-trick (nearly) of LBW decisions against my teammates. The last of them was a close combat instructor for the marines who gave me the 1,000 yard stare in the bar for the rest of the evening. I now try to avoid umpiring whenever I can...
How much do professional advisers have to care for their clients?
Jan 2018 Professional advisers out there will be pleased to know that a number of recent cases have confirmed that they do not have to care too much about their clients. In one recent High Court case,..