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Weekly law digests

29 January 2020
Issue: 7872 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Charity

Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and others v Derby City Council and others (Charity Commission for England and Wales intervening) [2019] EWHC 3436 (Ch), [2020] All ER (D) 58 (Jan) 

The lead claimant, an NHS foundation trust, was not established for charitable purposes under the definition of ‘charity’ in both the Local Government Finance Act 1988 and the Charities Act 2011. Accordingly, the Chancery Division found that the claimants could not reduce their liability to pay non-domestic rates in the properties they occupied, by one fifth, under s 43 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988.

Child

L (a child) (special guardianship order: reasons) [2020] EWCA Civ 20, [2020] All ER (D) 98 (Jan)

The judge had been entitled to make a special guardianship order in favour of the maternal grandmother and reject the application of the local authority, supported by the children’s guardian, for a care plan for adoption. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, dismissing the guardian’s appeal, held that the judge had carried out a thorough evaluation

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
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