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27 October 2020
Issue: 7908 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Law digests: 30 October 2020

Damages

Swift v Carpenter (Personal Injuries Bar Association intervening) [2020] EWCA Civ 1295, [2020] All ER (D) 66 (Oct)

In allowing the appellant’s appeal against a damages order which awarded her nothing in respect of the cost of purchasing a more expensive new home, which was necessitated by her significant injuries following a motor vehicle accident, the Court of Appeal, Civil Division, found that the approach for calculating those damages set out in Roberts v Johnstone [1989] QB 878 no longer achieved fair and reasonable compensation for injured claimants. The court instead took a new approach to calculating the damages to be awarded to the appellant for the cost of purchasing her new home.


European Union

Groupe Lactalis v Premier ministre and others C-485/18, [2020] All ER (D) 78 (Oct)

Article 26 of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 should be interpreted as meaning that the mandatory indication of the country of origin or place of provenance of milk or milk used as an ingredient had to be regarded as a ‘matter specifically

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NEWS
Calls to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 have been renewed, with the Bar Council arguing the current threshold criminalises children too early and risks pushing them towards lifelong offending
The legal profession's AI challenge extends far beyond fabricated case citations, according to a warning about the next phase of technological risk
Law firms should use the transition period before the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) assumes anti-money laundering (AML) supervision to strengthen governance and compliance, experts have warned
Cross-border disputes increasingly demand creative approaches to gathering evidence, with litigators needing to look beyond traditional letters of request
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified the distinction between contracts of 'indefinite' and 'perpetual' duration, with potentially significant implications for commercial drafting
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