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Law digests: 14 March 2025

14 March 2025
Issue: 8108 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Case management

Stuart Angel and 1379 others v Black Horse Ltd and other appeals [2025] EWHC 490 (KB)

The appeal concerned case management relating to omnibus claim forms under CPR 7.3 and 19.1 for unfair relationship claims under the Consumer Credit Act 1974. The court determined that the lower court judge erred in applying the incorrect test from the overruled Divisional Court decision in Abbott v Ministry of Defence [2023] 1 WLR 4002, instead of the broader test set out in Morris v Williams & Co Solicitors [2024] EWCA Civ 376. Decisions on common issues in lead cases were held to potentially bind or be highly persuasive on following claims, contrary to the lower court’s finding.


Costs

Parkhouse and another company v Sutcliffe and others [2025] EWHC 482 (Comm)

This case involves an interim injunction application by the claimants against the defendants regarding access to IT systems and telecom services after the demerger of their business groups. The court determined that the claimants should be awarded part of their costs

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

NEWS
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
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