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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

Thackray Williams—Lucy Zhu

Thackray Williams—Lucy Zhu

Dual-qualified partner joins as head of commercial property department

Morgan Lewis—David A. McManus

Morgan Lewis—David A. McManus

Firm announces appointment of next chair

Burges Salmon—Rebecca Wilsker

Burges Salmon—Rebecca Wilsker

Director joins corporate team from the US

NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection? 
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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