Court Report

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Frontiers Capital v Flohr: liquidator held to be the real party and ordered to pay costs

High Court orders liquidator who controlled and funded a failed partnership claim to pay costs.

Cenkci v HMRC: adviser's death does not strengthen taxpayer's hand in late appeal

Upper Tribunal refuses permission to appeal, holding adviser failures bind the taxpayer under Katib.

Wine Enterprise Investment Scheme v Crowe: a Pyrrhic victory leaves the auditor as the successful party on costs

A claimant that recovered a fraction of its audit-negligence claim must pay most of the defendant's costs.

Pattinson v Winsor: committal application over judicial harassment withdrawn on compassionate grounds

Contempt application against a brother-in-law is withdrawn by consent after arrest amid serious welfare concerns.

R (Castro Guallichico) v Southwark: High Court dismisses challenge to a council's direct offer housing list

Judicial review over a family's rehousing fails on procedure, transparency and equality duty grounds.

Harvey v Heaver: High Court gives first authoritative reading of the fitness for human habitation test

Landmark ruling interprets the section 9A fitness covenant and orders a landlord to repair an unfit home.

Hillingdon v Springwell Lane Metal Recycling: High Court grants final injunction to halt unlawful scrap yard

Deputy judge orders a Green Belt scrap metal operation to cease after repeated enforcement failures.

Gable Insurance v Dewsall: Court of Appeal upholds finding that a director's excess payments were not dishonest

Appeal judges decline to disturb a trial ruling that certain payments involved no dishonesty.