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03 September 2021
Issue: 7946 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Law digests: 3 September 2021

Child

Re P and another (children) (Hague Convention: consent) [2021] EWHC 2184 (Fam), [2021] All ER (D) 20 (Aug)

The father applied for the summary return to the United States of America under the Hague Convention 1980 or under the inherent jurisdiction, of his daughters P, age 12, and Q, age 11, who were living in the UK with their mother. The mother opposed the application. The Family Division dismissed the father’s applications as it found that on the evidence the defence of consent had been made out by the mother.


Company

Re Provident SPV Ltd [2021] EWHC 2217 (Ch), [2021] All ER (D) 24 (Aug)

The applicant company’s application for the sanctioning of a scheme of arrangement succeeded. The company had been set up to assume the liabilities of two other companies that provided small loans to individuals on low or moderate incomes. The Chancery Division held that the scheme met the requirements in the case law, and that none of the matters raised by the Financial Conduct Authority

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Partner and Manchester office lead appointed head of family

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

DWF insurance services director appointed to Civil Justice Council

R3—Jodie Wildridge

R3—Jodie Wildridge

Kings Chambers barrister appointed chair of R3 Yorkshire

NEWS

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

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
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
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
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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