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Law digests: 18 June 2021

18 June 2021
Issue: 7937 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Contract

MDW Holdings Ltd v Norvill and others [2021] EWHC 1135 (Ch), [2021] All ER (D) 09 (Jun)

The claimant claimed that the defendants had been in breach of warranties in a share purchase agreement for the purchase of a waste management company by failing to disclose that the company had not complied with necessary regulatory requirements. The Chancery Division, allowing the claim in part, held that, while the defendants had been liable for certain aspects of the claim, the claimant had failed to established other grounds and that damages would be awarded accordingly.


Data protection

R (on the application of Open Rights Group and another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and another (Liberty and another intervening) [2021] EWCA Civ 800, [2021] All ER (D) 01 (Jun)

The appellants appealed a decision that the provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018, called the Immigration Exemption, which provided that the GDPR did not apply to personal data processed for the purposes of maintaining effective immigration, was not unlawful.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson

Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson

Real estate dispute resolution team welcomes newly qualified solicitor

Morr & Co—Dennis Phillips

Morr & Co—Dennis Phillips

International private client team appoints expert in Spanish law

NLJ Career Profile: Stefan Borson, McCarthy Denning

NLJ Career Profile: Stefan Borson, McCarthy Denning

Stefan Borson, football finance expert head of sport at McCarthy Denning, discusses returning to the law digging into the stories behind the scenes

NEWS
Paper cyber-incident plans are useless once ransomware strikes, argues Jack Morris of Epiq in NLJ this week
In this week's NLJ, Robert Hargreaves and Lily Johnston of York St John University examine the Employment Rights Bill 2024–25, which abolishes the two-year qualifying period for unfair-dismissal claims
Writing in NLJ this week, Manvir Kaur Grewal of Corker Binning analyses the collapse of R v Óg Ó hAnnaidh, where a terrorism charge failed because prosecutors lacked statutory consent. The case, she argues, highlights how procedural safeguards—time limits, consent requirements and institutional checks—define lawful state power
Michael Zander KC, emeritus professor at LSE, revisits his long-forgotten Crown Court Study (1993), which surveyed 22,000 participants across 3,000 cases, in the first of a two-part series for NLJ
Getty Images v Stability AI Ltd [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch) was a landmark test of how UK law applies to AI training—but does it leave key questions unanswered, asks Emma Kennaugh-Gallagher of Mewburn Ellis in NLJ this week
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