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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