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Law digests: 13 August 2021

13 August 2021
Issue: 7945 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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R (on the application of A) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 37, [2021] All ER (D) 115 (Jul)

The appellant failed in its challenge to the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme Guidance (the Guidance), as amended in 2012, issued by the Secretary of State in exercise of her common law powers. In dismissing the appeal, the Supreme Court held, among other things, that: (i) assessed by reference to the test in Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [1985] 3 All ER 402, the Guidance (in the version in issue in the proceedings) was clearly lawful; and (ii) the Guidance was ‘in accordance with the law’ within the meaning of art 8(2) of the European Convention on Human Rights: a police force which sought to comply with its legal duties under the European Court of Human Rights and the domestic courts, as the Guidance encouraged it to do, would act ‘in accordance with the law’ for the purposes of art 8(2) of the Convention.


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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
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
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
In this week's NLJ, Steven Ball of Red Lion Chambers unpacks how advances in forensic science finally unmasked Ryland Headley, jailed in 2025 for the 1967 rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne. Preserved swabs and palm prints lay dormant for decades until DNA-17 profiling produced a billion-to-one match
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
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
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