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Law digests: 25 September 2020

23 September 2020
Issue: 7903 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Children & young persons

Re C (a child) (parental order and child arrangements order) [2020] EWHC 2141 (Fam), [2020] All ER (D) 27 (Sep)

A surrogate child (C) had his ‘home’ with the father and the mother (the parents), within the meaning of s 54(4)(a) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, notwithstanding that the parents were separated and lived in two separate households. The Family Division so ruled, having given a wide and purposive interpretation of the word ‘home’. Accordingly, the court granted a parental order in favour of the parents. Further, and among other things, the court held that it was in C’s welfare best interests to make a child arrangements order that he live with his father (with whom he currently lived) and spent time with his mother.


Contract

Lodha Developers 1 GSQ Ltd v 1 GSQ 1 Ltd and another [2020] EWHC 2356 (Ch), [2020] All ER (D) 30 (Sep)

The claimant company sought summary judgment for: (i) a declaration that a sale and purchase agreement

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Serious injury teambolstered by high-profile partner hire

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

NEWS
Chronic delays, duplication of work, cancelled hearings and inefficiencies in the family law courts are letting children and victims of domestic abuse down, a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) inquiry has found
Ceri Morgan, knowledge counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, analyses the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd, which reshapes the law of fiduciary relationships and common law bribery
The boundaries of media access in family law are scrutinised by Nicholas Dobson in NLJ this week
Reflecting on personal experience, Professor Graham Zellick KC, Senior Master of the Bench and former Reader of the Middle Temple, questions the unchecked power of parliamentary privilege
Geoff Dover, managing director at Heirloom Fair Legal, sets out a blueprint for ethical litigation funding in the wake of high-profile law firm collapses
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