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Law digests: 16 May 2025

16 May 2025
Issue: 8116 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Administrative law

R (on the application of the Duke of Sussex) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWCA Civ 548

The Court of Appeal (Civil Division) dismissed the claimant Prince Harry’s appeal challenging the lawfulness of the security arrangements provided by the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (RAVEC) for his visits to the UK since his change of royal status in 2020. The court held that RAVEC’s chair had good reason to depart from RAVEC’s usual policy of commissioning a risk analysis from its Risk Management Board before making security decisions regarding the claimant.


Company

Bilta (UK) Ltd (in liquidation) and others v Tradition Financial Services Ltd [2025] UKSC 18

The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of the appellant, Tradition Financial Services Ltd (TFS) who had brokered deals for some of the respondent companies who were engaged in missing trader intra-community fraud, a form of VAT fraud involving trading of carbon credits under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in 2009, and were

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Myers & Co—Jen Goodwin

Myers & Co—Jen Goodwin

Head of corporate promoted to director

Boies Schiller Flexner—Lindsay Reimschussel

Boies Schiller Flexner—Lindsay Reimschussel

Firm strengthens international arbitration team with key London hire

Corker Binning—Priya Dave

Corker Binning—Priya Dave

FCA contentious financial regulation lawyer joins the team as of counsel

NEWS
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The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024—once heralded as a breakthrough—has instead plunged leaseholders into confusion, warns Shabnam Ali-Khan of Russell-Cooke in this week’s NLJ
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has now confirmed that offering a disabled employee a trial period in an alternative role can itself be a 'reasonable adjustment' under the Equality Act 2010: in this week's NLJ, Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve analyses the evolving case law
Caroline Shea KC and Richard Miller of Falcon Chambers examine the growing judicial focus on 'cynical breach' in restrictive covenant cases, in this week's issue of NLJ
Ian Gascoigne of LexisNexis dissects the uneasy balance between open justice and confidentiality in England’s civil courts, in this week's NLJ. From public hearings to super-injunctions, he identifies five tiers of privacy—from fully open proceedings to entirely secret ones—showing how a patchwork of exceptions has evolved without clear design
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