Fraud: Bad pennies

Devereux Chambers | The Commercial Litigation Journal | July/August 2012 #44
Alison Padfield considers the recovery of the costs of investigating insurance fraud: current routes and proposed reform The only remedy for breach of the duty of good faith is avoidance of the policy, not damages, so the costs of investigating a claim cannot be recovered by that route. According to the United Kingdom’s Insurance Fraud …

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Contract: Deeds that go undelivered

Pinsent Masons | Property Law Journal | March 2011 #266
A recent decision has clarified the law relating to the execution of deeds and highlighted some pitfalls that the parties to settlement agreements need to be mindful of, as Richard Bartle and Keith Shaw find out ‘Most practitioners are well aware of the difficulty of proving that ‘unconscionable’ behaviour actually has occurred, although that doesn’t …

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