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Law digests: 29 January 2021

28 January 2021
Issue: 7918 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Asylum

R (on the application of AS) v Liverpool City Council [2020] EWHC 3531 (Admin), [2021] All ER (D) 02 (Jan)

In the course of judicial review proceedings, challenging an age assessment conducted on behalf of the defendant local authority, which had concluded that the claimant asylum seeker was aged 20 or over and not a child, as he claimed, the Administrative Court allowed the claimant’s application for interim relief and granted an order that the authority should continue to accommodate and support him as a child in its care. Interim relief was granted until the issue of permission to apply for judicial review was determined, or further order.


Conflict of laws

Etihad Airways PJSC v Flöther [2020] EWCA Civ 1707, [2021] All ER (D) 05 (Jan)

In dismissing the appeal of Air Berlin’s insolvency administrator, whose application disputed the jurisdiction of the English courts to resolve disputes arising out of a facility agreement entered into between Air Berlin and the respondent, the Court of Appeal, Civil Division, found that the ‘asymmetric’

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Myers & Co—Jen Goodwin

Myers & Co—Jen Goodwin

Head of corporate promoted to director

Boies Schiller Flexner—Lindsay Reimschussel

Boies Schiller Flexner—Lindsay Reimschussel

Firm strengthens international arbitration team with key London hire

Corker Binning—Priya Dave

Corker Binning—Priya Dave

FCA contentious financial regulation lawyer joins the team as of counsel

NEWS
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The Employment Appeal Tribunal has now confirmed that offering a disabled employee a trial period in an alternative role can itself be a 'reasonable adjustment' under the Equality Act 2010: in this week's NLJ, Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve analyses the evolving case law
Caroline Shea KC and Richard Miller of Falcon Chambers examine the growing judicial focus on 'cynical breach' in restrictive covenant cases, in this week's issue of NLJ
Ian Gascoigne of LexisNexis dissects the uneasy balance between open justice and confidentiality in England’s civil courts, in this week's NLJ. From public hearings to super-injunctions, he identifies five tiers of privacy—from fully open proceedings to entirely secret ones—showing how a patchwork of exceptions has evolved without clear design
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