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Weekly law digests

08 June 2018
Issue: 7796 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Child

Re S (a child) (abduction: Hague Convention or BIIa) [2018] EWCA Civ 1226, [2018] All ER (D) 149 (May)

Where a child, habitually resident in England and Wales, was alleged to have been wrongfully removed to or retained in another EU member state, the England and Wales courts had the power to make a return order summarily at the outset of proceedings when it had substantive jurisdiction under Council Regulation (EC) 2201/2003. However, the Court of Appeal, Civil Division, held that, absent a good reason to the contrary, the better course was for the court to defer making a return order until an application under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980 had been determined in the other member state.

Employment

R (on the application of the Fire Brigades Union) v South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority [2018] EWHC 1229 (Admin), [2018] All ER (D) 150 (May)

The defendant Fire and Rescue Authority’s shift system which involved periods during a working week of 96 hours of continuous duty, other

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Slater Heelis—Chester office

Slater Heelis—Chester office

North West presence strengthened with Chester office launch

Cooke, Young & Keidan—Elizabeth Meade

Cooke, Young & Keidan—Elizabeth Meade

Firm grows commercial disputes expertise with partner promotion

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

NEWS
The House of Lords has set up a select committee to examine assisted dying, which will delay the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
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
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