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21 July 2020
Issue: 7896 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Law digests: 24 July 2020

Company

Re The Property Group (2010) Ltd and other companies [2020] EWHC 1751 (Ch), [2020] All ER (D) 62 (Jul)

The claimant Competition and Markets Authority’s claim succeeded in proceedings concerning a cartel in estate and letting agency businesses. The Chancery Division held that the defendant had breached his duties owed to a company of which he was a director and his duties as a director of all three companies in issue, by helping them to fix a minimum level of commission fees for property sales agency services in the Burnham-on-Sea area. The defendant was disqualified as a director for seven years.


Family proceedings

A local authority v M and another [2020] Lexis Citation 269, [2020] All ER (D) 65 (Jul)

On the balance of probabilities, it was held that the father had struck the youngest of two children during the relevant period, and that he had failed to seek medical treatment which would have exposed the injury, in spite of persistent advice from the grandmother. Accordingly, the Family Court

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NEWS
Cheating in driving tests is surging—and courts are responding firmly. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort Law School charts a rise in impersonation and tech-assisted fraud, with 2,844 attempts recorded in a year
As AI-generated ‘deepfake’ images proliferate, the law may already have the tools to respond. In NLJ this week, Jon Belcher of Excello Law argues that such images amount to personal data processing under UK GDPR
In a striking financial remedies ruling, the High Court cut a wife’s award by 40% for coercive and controlling behaviour. Writing in NLJ this week, Chris Bryden and Nicole Wallace of 4 King’s Bench Walk analyse LP v MP [2025] EWFC 473
A €60.9m award to Kylian Mbappé has refocused attention on football’s controversial ‘ethics bonus’ clauses. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Estelle Ivanova of Valloni Attorneys at Law examines how such provisions sit within French labour law

The Court of Appeal has slammed the brakes on claimants trying to swap defendants after limitation has expired. In Adcamp LLP v Office Properties and BDB Pitmans v Lee [2026] EWCA Civ 50, it overturned High Court rulings that had allowed substitutions under s 35(6)(b) of the Limitation Act 1980, reports Sarah Crowther of DAC Beachcroft in this week's NLJ

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