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06 October 2023
Issue: 8043 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Law digests: 6 October 2023

Bank

Kallakis v Kallakis and others [2023] EWHC 2148 (Comm), [2023] All ER (D) 45 (Sep)

The Commercial Court, dismissing the claim in its entirety against, among others, a mortgagee that had been the victim of a significant property fraud, held that the claimant had commenced his claims as nominee and on behalf of the fraudster, who was also a defendant to the claim and had sought to make it appear that the claim was being brought by an innocent third party rather than by a fraudster against the victim of his fraud, but that, in any event, all the claims were unfounded and the claimant had not had standing to pursue them.


Financial services

Fox-Bryant and another v Financial Conduct Authority [2023] UKUT 224 (TCC), [2023] All ER (D) 152 (Jul)

The Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) (the UT) dismissed the privacy applications of the applicants who were the owners and directors of a small financial services advisory firm (the company) during the relevant period. The respondent Financial Conduct

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys senior leadership appointments

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector

NEWS
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
The High Court has upheld a rare successful serious-irregularity challenge after an arbitrator relied on an implied term neither party had advanced
Thirty years after The Future of Law shook a profession still using fax machines, its central forecast looks increasingly less like prophecy and more like description
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
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