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

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

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys senior leadership appointments

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector

NEWS
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
Britain’s new acknowledgement that Israel’s occupation is unlawful, and accompanying settlement-goods ban and sanctions, is significant but overdue, argue Danny Friedman KC and Victor Kattan in NLJ this week
New planning fee rises, wider trade union access rights and a service-by-email trap feature in Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
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