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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

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

Commercial property and child law teams expand with senior hires

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Set expands London and Singapore offering with senior international disputes hires

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Firm strengthens real estate and litigation teams with partner promotions

NEWS
Behind the profession’s polished exterior, lawyers are ‘internally drained rather than physically tired’, according to a stark assessment of burnout in legal practice
Five years after the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 came into force, concerns remain that the family courts continue to minimise allegations of abuse in child contact disputes
Uber has built a formidable strategy for insulating itself from liability for drivers’ conduct, but the legal terrain differs sharply between the US and England and Wales
The Civil Justice Council’s review of Part III of the Solicitors Act 1974 could mark the end of what one commentator calls an ‘outdated’ and overly technical regime governing solicitor-client fee disputes
The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 marks a constitutional watershed by severing the centuries-old link between hereditary titles and automatic membership of the upper chamber
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