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Law digests: 11 June 2021

11 June 2021
Issue: 7936 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Asylum

Laci v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWCA Civ 769, [2021] All ER (D) 82 (May)

The appellant appealed a decision of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) that had held that the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) had erred in allowing his appeal from a decision by the respondent Secretary of State to deprive him of his British citizenship. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, allowing the appeal, held that the upper tribunal, in finding that there had been an error of law, had based its decision on a misreading of the FTT’s decision.


Company

Re Hurricane Energy plc [2021] EWHC 1418 (Ch), [2021] All ER (D) 83 (May)

Following Hurricane Energy plc’s application to convene a meeting of its creditors to consider a plan of reorganisation, under Pt 26A of the Companies Act 2006, the Chancery Division ordered that two meetings be convened: a meeting of the holders of unsecured bonds with a face value of $230m, and a meeting of the company’s shareholders.


Contempt of court

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Slater Heelis—Chester office

Slater Heelis—Chester office

North West presence strengthened with Chester office launch

Cooke, Young & Keidan—Elizabeth Meade

Cooke, Young & Keidan—Elizabeth Meade

Firm grows commercial disputes expertise with partner promotion

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

NEWS
The House of Lords has set up a select committee to examine assisted dying, which will delay the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
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