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Law digests: 19 April 2024

19 April 2024
Issue: 8067 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Disclosure

Secretary of State for the Home ­Department and another v R (on the application of IAB & others) [2024] EWCA Civ 66, [2024] All ER (D) 128 (Mar)

The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, dismissed an appeal by the defendants from a decision of the High Court stating that it was not a matter of routine for the names of civil servants outside the Senior Civil Service to be redacted from documents disclosed in proceedings. The court held that routine redaction was a practice inimical to open government and unsupported by authority. If Parliament had taken the view that members of the Civil Service had a general right to anonymity in judicial review litigation then it should enact a primary statute to that effect.


Family proceedings

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea v NM and others [2024] EWFC 48, [2024] All ER (D) 125 (Mar)

The Family Court ruled on a difficult case management decision regarding the proper ambit of the finding of fact exercise in the present case. The proceedings

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy

Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy

Partner appointed as head of residential conveyancing for England

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels

Specialist firm enhances corporate healthcare practice with partner appointment

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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