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Weekly law digests

08 December 2017
Issue: 7773 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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R (on the application of SD) v Chief Constable Of North Yorkshire and another [2017] EWCA Civ 1838, [2017] All ER (D) 169 (Nov)

The defendant, the Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police and the judge had both erred in the way they had balanced the interests of children, a vulnerable group, against the right of the claimant in failing to have regard to a relevant consideration. The Court of Appeal Civil Division allowed the claimant’s app eal and quashing the entry in the enhanced criminal records certificate in relation to the claimant.

European Community

Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd v Visa Europe Services LLC and others [2017] EWHC 3047 (Comm), [2017] All ER (D) 17 (Dec)

The defendants’ (together, Visa’s) multilateral interchange fee for Visa payment card transactions in the UK did not restrict competition within the meaning of art 101(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The Commercial Court so held in dismissing a claim brought by Sainsbury’s Supermarkets for a declaration and for damages of £148,636,686.

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DWF—19 appointments

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NEWS
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
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—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
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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