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15 August 2019
Issue: 7853 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Weekly law digests

Care proceedings

A v A local authority and others [2019] EWCA Civ 1360, [2019] All ER (D) 27 (Aug)

The judge had erroneously found that either or both of the parents had inflicted a non-accidental injury on their one-year-old child and thereby rejected an alternative cause that the injury could have been caused accidentally when the child was in the care of his 11-year-old cousin. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, held that there had been a lack of a coherent structure to the judge’s judgment providing clarity as to the findings which had been made and a lack of balance in reaching a conclusion as to the credibility of the parents.

Employment

Harpur Trust v Brazel (Unison intervening) [2019] EWCA Civ 1402, [2019] All ER (D) 40 (Aug)

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (the EAT) had held that the Working Time Regulations 1998, SI 1998/1833, made no provision for pro-rating of annual leave in circumstances where the respondent teacher did not have normal working hours within the meaning of the Employment Rights Act

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NEWS
Calls to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 have been renewed, with the Bar Council arguing the current threshold criminalises children too early and risks pushing them towards lifelong offending
The legal profession's AI challenge extends far beyond fabricated case citations, according to a warning about the next phase of technological risk
Law firms should use the transition period before the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) assumes anti-money laundering (AML) supervision to strengthen governance and compliance, experts have warned
Cross-border disputes increasingly demand creative approaches to gathering evidence, with litigators needing to look beyond traditional letters of request
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified the distinction between contracts of 'indefinite' and 'perpetual' duration, with potentially significant implications for commercial drafting
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