Weekly law digests

Conflict of laws

C v C (Jersey) [2019] UKPC 40, [2019] All ER (D) 49 (Nov)

The Court of Appeal of Jersey had not erred in upholding a finding that the appellant make periodical payments in respect of a child despite an agreement by the mother that he was not the child’s father. The Privy Council, in dismissing the appeal, held that the Court of Appeal had been right to recognise the Latvian court’s declaration that the appellant was the father of the respondent mother’s child that had established the appellant’s paternity.

Costs

Burnden Holdings (UK) Ltd (in liquidation) and another v Fielding and another [2019] EWHC 2995 (Ch), [2019] All ER (D) 91 (Nov)

In all the circumstances of the case, the just course was to apply a cap on the liability of the second respondent firm of the second claimant liquidator to pay any part of the defendants’ costs equal to the amount of funding it had contributed, namely in the amount of £478,265. The Chancery Division further held