A divorced artist who claims her ex-husband signed over their £1.5 million home to her via WhatsApp after their split is locked in a High Court test case fight to keep it.

London-based painter Hsiao Mei-Lin married Icelandic financier Audun Mar Gudmundsson in 2009, but the pair had a troubled marriage and separated in 2016. During their time together, they lived in a £1.5 million house in affluent Tufnell Park, north London, which is now at the centre of the High Court fight case.

Ms Lin was awarded the house in their divorce, but was unaware Mr Gudmundsson had been declared bankrupt one week earlier, eliminating her chance of receiving his share. She is now fighting an important legal test case over when statements made in WhatsApp…

On the pre-existing dispute argument, the NCLT held that the 2004 arbitration concerned earlier disputes and did not relate to the EIRL works, which were assigned and completed later.

As no dispute regarding the present claim was raised prior to the demand notice, the tribunal held that CNNL failed the Mobilox test for demonstrating a pre-existing dispute.

Its belated replies of December 2020 and February 2021 lacked specific objections to the EIRL claim and could not cure that defect, the tribunal ruled.

“Applying this established jurisprudence to the facts of the present case, we find that the Respondent’s reliance on the pendency of an unrelated arbitration and its vague characterization of the EIRL debt as “disputed” do not satisfy…

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) at Bengaluru on Wednesday admitted a Karnataka government undertaking Cauvery Neeravari Nigam Limited into the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process for a default of over Rs 9.36 crores. The bench of Judicial Member Sunil Kumar Aggarwal and Technical Member Radhakrishna Sreepada, while admitting an insolvency plea filed by project contractor…

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