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Law digests: 6 November 2020

04 November 2020
Issue: 7909 / Categories: Case law , In Court
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Arbitration

Haley v Haley [2020] EWCA Civ 1369, [2020] All ER (D) 110 (Oct)

In family proceedings where one party challenged an arbitral award made in the context of litigation concerning applications for financial remedies following divorce, the Court of Appeal, Civil Division, found that challenges to an arbitral award were not limited to the statutory challenges found under the Arbitration Act 1996. The ‘appeals test’ in the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (SI 2010/2955), could be applied to determine whether the court should have declined to make an order in the terms of an arbitral award. Accordingly, the court could exercise its discretion and decline to make an order in the terms of the arbitral award, and could substitute its own order instead, if it determined that the arbitral award was wrong.


European Union

Burgo Group SpA v Gestore dei Servizi Energetici SpA - GSE C-92/19, [2020] All ER (D) 70 (Oct)

Article 12(3) of Directive (EC) 2004/8 should be interpreted as not precluding a provision of national law which allowed cogeneration

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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

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