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Weekly law digests

19 September 2019
Issue: 7856 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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R (on the application of Actegy Ltd) v Advertising Standards Authority Ltd and another [2019] EWHC 2374 (Admin), [2019] All ER (D) 23 (Sep)

The claimant was unable to show that the first defendant’s general approach for assessing whether or not efficacy claims made for a medical device in an advertisement were substantiated had failed any test of proportionality and it was not established that the first defendant had adopted an approach on the facts of the case which had been unlawful. Accordingly, the Administrative Court dismissed the claimant’s application for judicial review of the decision, upholding complaints against a newspaper advertisement placed by the claimant for a medical device.

Constitutional law

R (on the application of Miller) v Prime Minister (Baroness Chakrabarti and others intervening) [2019] EWHC 2381 (QB), [2019] All ER (D) 24 (Sep)

The decision of the defendant prime minister to advise Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament from a date between 9 and 12 September until 14 October 2019 had not been justiciable, as the criteria adopted by the

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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
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
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
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
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