Solicitor rebuked for issuing cheque that bounced – Legal Futures
‘A solicitor has been sanctioned for sending a client a cheque for his damages which bounced.’
Legal Futures, 10th December 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Category: cheques
Dianne Spragg jailed for stealing £79k from legal clients – BBC News
‘A legal secretary who stole nearly £79,000 from vulnerable clients and spent it on shopping sprees has been jailed for two and a half years.’
BBC News, 28th January 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Aspinall’s Club Ltd v Al-Zayat – Times Law Reports
Gambling cheque defence might be valid
Aspinall’s Club Ltd v Al-Zayat
Court of Appeal
“A gambling debt which was recoverable when it was incurred, could later become irrecoverable if the gaming club had extended credit to a member contrary to law; that unlawful provision of credit rendered the member’s liabilities on both a dishonoured cheque and the underlying loan illegal and unenforceable.”
The Times, 31st October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Aspinall’s Club Ltd v Al-Zayat – WLR Daily
Aspinall’s Club Ltd v Al-Zayat [2007] EWCA Civ 1001
“A gambling debt which was recoverable at the time it was incurred could later become irrecoverable by the subsequent provision by the gaming club of unlawful credit to the member, which rendered the member’s liabilities on both the dishonoured cheque and the underlying loan illegal and unenforceable under s 16 of the Gaming Act 1968.”
WLR Daily, 22nd October 2007
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note: once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
