CA gives green light to exemplary damages in insurance fraud cases AXA Insurance UK plc v Financial Claims Solutions Ltd and others [2018] EWCA Civ 1330

Exemplary damages are a narrow exception to the rule that damages are compensatory, not punitive. This case is a paradigm example of when they are appropriate.

Administrators

Administration is an alternative to liquidation, for which legislation is now contained in Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986.

The limits of the rule against reflective loss

Does the rule against reflective loss apply to claims by unsecured creditors who are not shareholders of the relevant company?

Smith v Khan [2018] EWCA Cave 1173, 17 May 2018

Mr Khan had granted a twelve-month assured shorthold tenancy to the Claimant’s husband in June 2014. In March 2015 the husband left the property and disappeared.