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Weekly law digests

19 July 2018
Issue: 7802 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Building contract

Tees Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust v Three Valleys Healthcare Ltd and another [2018] EWHC 1659 (TCC), [2018] All ER (D) 54 (Jul)

The claimant NHS Foundation Trust’s application for declarations as to the validity of notices served succeeded, in a dispute concerning work carried out under an agreement at a hospital. The Technology and Construction Court made rulings as to the interpretation of the notices and held that they had been served correctly.

Company

Estera Trust (Jersey) Ltd (formerly known as Appleby Trust (Jersey) Ltd) and another v Singh and others [2018] EWHC 1715 (Ch), [2018] All ER (D) 49 (Jul)

A share purchase order was made against a director and shareholder of a company, and against the company. The Chancery Division so ruled on an unfair prejudice petition brought by other members of the company. The court held that the director had breached his fiduciary duties and that certain actions had been taken which had been unfairly prejudicial to the interests of other members of the company. However,

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
In this week's NLJ, Steven Ball of Red Lion Chambers unpacks how advances in forensic science finally unmasked Ryland Headley, jailed in 2025 for the 1967 rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne. Preserved swabs and palm prints lay dormant for decades until DNA-17 profiling produced a billion-to-one match
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
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
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
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
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