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31 October 2019
Issue: 7862 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Weekly law digests

Costs

Brown v Metropolitan Police Commissioner and another (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) [2019] EWCA Civ 1724, [2019] All ER (D) 124 (Oct)

The judge had been right to hold that, because the present case was a mixed claim, in that it had included claims for damages for matters unconnected to personal injury, as well as a claim for personal injury damages, one of the express exceptions to the qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS) regime contained in CPR 44.16(2)(b) was triggered with the effect that the automatic costs protection arising under the QOCS regime fell away and costs remained a matter for the court. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, dismissing the appeal, held that the judge had been right to find that, in circumstances where the appellant's personal injury claims had been dismissed but she had succeeded in non-personal injury claims, the QOCS regime had not been applicable.

Defamation

Al Sadik (also known as Al Sadek and Sadik) v Sadik [2019] EWHC 2717 (QB), [2019] All ER (D) 116 (Oct)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

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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