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

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

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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