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30 September 2020
Issue: 7904 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Law digests: 2 October 2020

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WV v Landkreis Harburg C-540/19, [2020] All ER (D) 38 (Sep)

A public body which sought to recover, by way of an action for recovery, sums paid in place of maintenance to a maintenance creditor, and to which the claims of that maintenance creditor against the maintenance debtor had been transferred by way of subrogation, could validly invoke the jurisdiction of the court for the place where the creditor was habitually resident, as provided in Art 3(b) of Regulation (EC) No 4/2009. The Court of Justice of the European Union (Third Chamber) so held in proceedings concerning the payment of a maintenance claim to the applicant’s mother, who was resident in Germany and whose rights had been transferred by way of statutory subrogation to the respondent body.


Building contract

John Doyle Construction Ltd (in liquidation) v Erith Contractors Ltd [2020] EWHC 2451 (TCC), [2020] All ER (D) 45 (Sep)

The claimant company’s application for summary judgment of an adjudication decision was refused. In dismissing the application, the Technology and Construction

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NEWS
The government will aim to pass legislation banning leasehold for new flats and capping ground rent, introducing non-compulsory digital ID and creating a ‘duty of candour’ for public servants (also known as the Hillsborough law) in the next Parliament

An Italian financier has lost his bid to block his Australian wife from filing divorce papers in England on the basis it was no longer her domicile of choice

Reforms to the disclosure regime in the business and property courts have not achieved their objectives, lawyers have warned
The Law Society has urged ministers to hold a public consultation on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the justice system as a whole
Ministers have proposed bringing inquest work under a single fee scheme for legal help and advocacy legal aid work
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