News for: Cheryl Jones

Cheryl Jones of 3PB represented the successful appellant in an appeal relating to the calculation of payment by a trustee in breach of her trust when for part of the time she occupied a trust property unlawfully, but part of the time occupied it lawfully. The case was also covered in the press: https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/judge-calls-for-lip-powers-after-court-bombarded-with-emails/5059119.article  

It is not uncommon for the final version of a contract to show clauses that have been replaced, deleted or struck out during the parties’ negotiations. Can you have regard to them in order to interpret the contract? The Court of Appeal has given guidance on that, and on setting aside voluntary arrangements for “material irregularity”, in Narandas-Girdhar v. Bradstock [2016] EWCA Civ 88. Cheryl Jones, a Commercial and Chancery barrister analyses the decision for...