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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

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Freeths—Ruth Clare

National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Partner appointed head of family team

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

NEWS
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The dangers of uncritical artificial intelligence (AI) use in legal practice are no longer hypothetical. In this week's NLJ, Dr Charanjit Singh of Holborn Chambers examines cases where lawyers relied on ‘hallucinated’ citations — entirely fictitious authorities generated by AI tools
The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness
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