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Law digests: 13 March 2020

11 March 2020
Issue: 7878 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Contract

Filatona Trading Ltd and another v Navigator Equities Ltd and others; Danilina v Chernukhin and others [2020] EWCA Civ 109, [2020] All ER (D) 41 (Feb)

The judge had been correct to find that an individual was an identified and disclosed principal party to a shareholder agreement and, accordingly, entitled to exercise contractual rights under the agreement. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, held that the parties to the agreement had not been unequivocally and exhaustively defined and the judge had been correct to have concluded that the individual and not his nominee was a party to the agreement.

Costs

Butler v Bankside Commercial Ltd [2020] EWCA Civ 203, [2020] All ER (D) 11 (Mar)

The judge had correctly decided that the term at issue in the conditional fee agreement (CFA) entered into between the appellant and the respondent solicitors’ company had triggered the appellant’s liability to pay the sums claimed by the respondent following the appellant’s rejection of the respondent’s

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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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