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Law digests: 30 April 2021

28 April 2021
Issue: 7930 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Company

Wood v Commercial First Business Ltd and other companies; Business Mortgage Finance 4 plc v Pengelly [2021] EWCA Civ 471, [2021] All ER (D) 35 (Apr)

The appellants, who had acquired the rights of lenders, appealed decisions in two cases that the loans that they had acquired could be rescinded on the basis that the brokers in each case had received non-disclosed commission. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, dismissing the appeals, held that the question of whether rescission had been an available remedy had not depended upon the existence of a fiduciary duty, but was whether the broker had been under a duty to provide information, advice and recommendations on an impartial or disinterested basis, and if they were, the payment of bribes or secret commissions exposed the broker and the payee to the applicable civil remedies.


Contract

Green v Petfre (Gibraltar) Ltd (trading as Betfred) [2021] EWHC 842 (QB), [2021] All ER (D) 30 (Apr)

The claimant was granted summary judgment on his claim for payment of

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
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