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23 November 2021
Categories: Legal News , Collective action , Privacy
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NLJ comment: Google endures a court double of highs & lows

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Google watchers will have noted the search engine giant’s ‘action-packed’ week in the courts―winning in the Supreme Court but losing in the European Court of Justice

Writing in NLJ, David Greene, senior partner, Edwin Coe, writes: ‘Both decisions are of heightened significance for the legal community; closing the door on one aspect of domestic class actions but opening another door to many years of litigation for Google and its regulatory detractors.’

Greene looks at both cases, one where a consumer sought to bring a case on behalf of four million iPhone users and the other on whether Google had abused its dominant position. Both cases are significant. 

MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

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Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Leasehold enfranchisement specialist joins residential property team

DWF—Chris Air

DWF—Chris Air

Firm strengthens commercial team in Manchester with partner appointment

NEWS
The government will aim to pass legislation banning leasehold for new flats and capping ground rent, introducing non-compulsory digital ID and creating a ‘duty of candour’ for public servants (also known as the Hillsborough law) in the next Parliament

An Italian financier has lost his bid to block his Australian wife from filing divorce papers in England on the basis it was no longer her domicile of choice

Reforms to the disclosure regime in the business and property courts have not achieved their objectives, lawyers have warned
The Law Society has urged ministers to hold a public consultation on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the justice system as a whole
Ministers have proposed bringing inquest work under a single fee scheme for legal help and advocacy legal aid work
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