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31 October 2019
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Civil way: 1 November 2019

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No dancing in the dark; whistleblowing ears; powers of attorney fail test; costs management escape.

Claimants to show all

We recently met the tribunal claimant who was desperate to maintain his anonymity (see ‘Civil way’, NLJ 4 October 2019 p24). This time, with your leave, we shall introduce you to AAA and eight other QBD claimants with similar cyphers who lap-dance at Spearmint Rhino venues and who have brought proceedings for misuse of private information and data protection breach. Anonymity is what they were after but not an order that would prohibit their real names being published or from being identified as claimants in the proceedings. That led to Nicklin J struggling to see the point of the relief being sought in AAA and others v Rakoff and others [2019] EWHC 2525 (QB), [2019] All ER (D) 01 (Oct) where, absent an appeal, the title is set to expand. Anonymity was declined.

The case is instructive on keeping the red tops at bay. A claim form must contain the claimant’s full name

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NLJ this week: Renters’ Rights revolution begins—brace for tribunal chaos

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

NLJ this week: Civil procedure gets a spring overhaul
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
NLJ this week: Why GP complaints are going nowhere
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
NLJ this week: Prenups meet a jurisdictional brick wall
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
NLJ this week: Has Rylands v Fletcher come back from the dead?
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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