Bank
Barness and others v Ingenious Media Ltd and others [2019] EWHC 3021 (Ch), [2019] All ER (D) 200 (Oct)
The claimants’ claims against the defendant banks for breach of contract, based on implied terms and for negligence based on duties of care owed in tort concurrent to the contractual duties of care said to have been owed or arising from an assumption of responsibility would be struck out, pursuant to CPR 3.4(2)(a). The Chancery Division further granted summary judgment against the claimants on claims that the banks were vicariously liable for breaches of duty by a firm of independent financial advisers of which each claimant was a client, pursuant to CPR 24.2.
Child
KJC v GRC [2019] EWHC 3170 (Fam), [2019] All ER (D) 199 (Oct)
The father’s application for the summary return of two children to the US, where they were habitually resident and had lived their entire lives, succeeded. The Family Division rejected the mother’s contention that, after she had left the US, the father had acquiesced in her
