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Weekly law digests

16 January 2020
Issue: 7870 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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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

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

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

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

NEWS
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
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
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