Activist investors: persuasion and pressure

The recent AGM of Barclays plc on 2 May 2019 attracted considerable press attention. A resolution had been requisitioned for the appointment as a director of a so-called activist investor. In the event, the resolution achieved less than 13% support, but the incident provides an interesting case study for other public companies to reflect on …

A CPD revolution

According to a report published the previous year by the research firm Outsell, the estimated value of the UK legal CPD market in 2016 was £21m. In a piece in the September 2016 issue of Counsel magazine, Stephen Honey, Head of Learning at LexisNexis UK, outlined the benefits which the changing face of CPD could …

Consumer Credit Act “unfair relationships”: mental health and the exercise of a mortgagee’s power of sale

Amendments to the Consumer Credit Act 1974 introducing the open-ended concept of an “unfair relationship” came into force in 2007. Subsequent case law defining or limiting this concept has been sparse. Adding to the case law, the Court of Appeal has now considered the matter in the context of the exercise of a mortgagee’s power …

You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Lenders, breach of trust and Target revisited

Target v Redferns (decided by the House of Lords in 1995) alerted lenders to the possibility of seeking trust based remedies against their own solicitors where a mortgage transaction has gone wrong. Recently, there has been a steady stream of decisions (both in the High Court and the Court of Appeal) considering and applying Target, …

A World Elsewhere

Our “judges and lawyers” production of Judgment at Nuremberg – first at the Tricycle Theatre in 2011 and then at the Bridewell Theatre last March – raised over £50,000 for charitable causes. Sally Knyvette, our professional director, worked tirelessly to knock us into shape. Sally’s latest venture is a near month long run of new …