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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

NLJ Career Profile: Bridget Tatham, Forum of Insurance Lawyers

NLJ Career Profile: Bridget Tatham, Forum of Insurance Lawyers

Bridget Tatham, partner at Browne Jacobson and 2026 president of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers, highlights the importance of hard work, ambition and seizing opportunities

Gibson Dunn—London partner promotions

Gibson Dunn—London partner promotions

Firm grows international bench with expanded UK partner class

Shakespeare Martineau—six appointments

Shakespeare Martineau—six appointments

Firm makes major statement in the capital with strategic growth at The Shard

NEWS
One in five in-house lawyers suffer ‘high’ or ‘severe’ work-related stress, according to a report by global legal body, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
The Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO’s) plea for a budget increase has been rejected by the Law Society and accepted only ‘with reluctance’ by conveyancers
Overcrowded prisons, mental health hospitals and immigration centres are failing to meet international and domestic human rights standards, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has warned
Two speedier and more streamlined qualification routes have been launched for probate and conveyancing professionals
Workplace stress was a contributing factor in almost one in eight cases before the employment tribunal last year, indicating its endemic grip on the UK workplace
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