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Weekly law digests

05 March 2020
Issue: 7877 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Company

Albion Energy Ltd v Energy Investments Global Ltd [2020] EWHC 301 (Comm), [2020] All ER (D) 95 (Feb)

The Commercial Court held that the defendant company was not entitled to a stay of the proceedings, and the claimant company’s application for summary judgment would be allowed, in a dispute concerning sums allegedly payable under a share purchase agreement.

Coroner

R (on the application of Dyer) v HM Assistant Coroner for West Yorkshire (Western) [2019] EWHC 2897 (Admin), [2019] All ER (D) 213 (Oct)

The defendant coroner’s decision to permit 16 police officers to give evidence behind screens would be quashed to the extent that the screens prevented the identified family members of the deceased from seeing the officers give evidence. The Administrative Court, in allowing the claimant’s application for judicial review, held that the coroner had misdirected himself in law and the decision had been irrational because it had failed to take into account the objective risk to the officers in being seen

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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

NEWS
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
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