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Law digests: 5 March 2021

03 March 2021
Issue: 7923 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Contract

Puharic v Silverbond Enterprises Ltd [2021] EWHC 351 (QB), [2021] All ER (D) 97 (Feb)

A Croatian VIP gambler’s claim that the defendant casino operator had a contractual obligation, pursuant to an alleged oral agreement, to pay commission accrued under the ‘player program agreement’ was dismissed. The Queen’s Bench Division held that there had been no concluded agreement reached between the parties about bonuses or incentives. Accordingly, the club in question was not obliged to pay the claimant commission which accrued when he had played at the club. The court held that the claimant had been paid his winnings and that he was entitled to no further sum.


Crime

R v Thacker and others [2021] EWCA Crim 97, [2021] All ER (D) 96 (Feb)

Section 1(2)(b) of the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990, which created the offence of intentional disruption of services at an aerodrome such that it ‘endangers or is likely to endanger the safe operation of the aerodrome or the safety of persons at the aerodrome’,

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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
Social media giants should face tortious liability for the psychological harms their platforms inflict, argues Harry Lambert of Outer Temple Chambers in this week’s NLJ
The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024—once heralded as a breakthrough—has instead plunged leaseholders into confusion, warns Shabnam Ali-Khan of Russell-Cooke in this week’s NLJ
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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