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Law digests: 3 September 2021

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

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Myers & Co—Jen Goodwin

Myers & Co—Jen Goodwin

Head of corporate promoted to director

Boies Schiller Flexner—Lindsay Reimschussel

Boies Schiller Flexner—Lindsay Reimschussel

Firm strengthens international arbitration team with key London hire

Corker Binning—Priya Dave

Corker Binning—Priya Dave

FCA contentious financial regulation lawyer joins the team as of counsel

NEWS
Social media giants should face tortious liability for the psychological harms their platforms inflict, argues Harry Lambert of Outer Temple Chambers in this week’s NLJ
The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024—once heralded as a breakthrough—has instead plunged leaseholders into confusion, warns Shabnam Ali-Khan of Russell-Cooke in this week’s NLJ
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has now confirmed that offering a disabled employee a trial period in an alternative role can itself be a 'reasonable adjustment' under the Equality Act 2010: in this week's NLJ, Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve analyses the evolving case law
Caroline Shea KC and Richard Miller of Falcon Chambers examine the growing judicial focus on 'cynical breach' in restrictive covenant cases, in this week's issue of NLJ
Ian Gascoigne of LexisNexis dissects the uneasy balance between open justice and confidentiality in England’s civil courts, in this week's NLJ. From public hearings to super-injunctions, he identifies five tiers of privacy—from fully open proceedings to entirely secret ones—showing how a patchwork of exceptions has evolved without clear design
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