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Weekly law digests

28 November 2019
Issue: 7866 / Categories: In court , Case law , In Court , Law digest
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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

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

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

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

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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