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Weekly law digests

15 June 2018
Issue: 7797 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Contempt of court

Aviva Insurance Ltd v Nazir and another [2018] EWHC 1296 (QB), [2018] All ER (D) 03 (Jun)

CCTV evidence from police pursing other enquires adjacent to the accident location was convincing evidence of a staged accident. Accordingly, the Queen’s Bench Division, on the claimant insurer’s application, held that the defendants were in contempt of court, as they had both known they had been involving themselves in a staged accident and had to have known that, following that, they would make a claim which was dishonest.

Family proceedings

Medway Council v Root [2018] EWHC 1299 (Fam), [2018] All ER (D) 153 (May)

In addition to three conceded breaches of a court order prohibiting the mother from making any publication of court papers in all of the public law proceedings relating to her children or from publishing any details relating to those proceedings, a further breach had been established. Accordingly, the Family Division sentenced the mother to six months’ imprisonment, suspended for a period of 12 months.

Income tax

Leekes Ltd v Revenue

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

FOIL—Bridget Tatham

FOIL—Bridget Tatham

Forum of Insurance Lawyers elects president for 2026

Gibson Dunn—Robbie Sinclair

Gibson Dunn—Robbie Sinclair

Partner joinslabour and employment practice in London

Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson

Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson

Real estate dispute resolution team welcomes newly qualified solicitor

NEWS
Solicitors are installing panic buttons and thumb print scanners due to ‘systemic and rising’ intimidation including death and arson threats from clients
Ministers’ decision to scrap plans for their Labour manifesto pledge of day one protection from unfair dismissal was entirely predictable, employment lawyers have said
Cryptocurrency is reshaping financial remedy cases, warns Robert Webster of Maguire Family Law in NLJ this week. Digital assets—concealable, volatile and hard to trace—are fuelling suspicions of hidden wealth, yet Form E still lacks a section for crypto-disclosure
NLJ columnist Stephen Gold surveys a flurry of procedural reforms in his latest 'Civil way' column
Paper cyber-incident plans are useless once ransomware strikes, argues Jack Morris of Epiq in NLJ this week
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