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Weekly law digests

17 October 2019
Issue: 7860 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Conflict of laws

SAS Institute Inc. v World Programming Ltd[2019] EWHC 2496 (Comm), [2019] All ER (D) 27 (Oct)

The Commercial Court determined issues regarding appropriation in circumstances where a judgment of the court of the United States was not enforceable on the grounds that it was contrary to the Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980.

Contract

Sports Mantra India Private Ltd and another v Force India Formula One Team Ltd (in liquidation) [2019] EWHC 2514 (Ch), [2019] All ER (D) 08 (Oct)

The defendant company's application to strike out the claim against it succeeded, in a dispute concerning an agency agreement between the parties, which were involved in the promotion of a Formula One racing team. Among other things, the agreement to purchase shares in the defendant's parent company had not been a sponsorship agreement.

European Union

Raqeeb (by her litigation friend) v Barts NHS Foundation Trust; Barts NHS Foundation Trust v Begum and others [2019] EWHC 2531 (Admin), [2019] All ER (D) 20 (Oct)

Although the NHS trust had

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy

Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy

Partner appointed as head of residential conveyancing for England

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels

Specialist firm enhances corporate healthcare practice with partner appointment

NEWS
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
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