Weekly law digests

Ashdown and others v Griffin and others [2018] EWCA Civ 1793, [2018] All ER (D) 109 (Aug)

Although it was found that the affairs of the company had been conducted in a manner which was unfairly prejudicial to the interests of the petitioners, the respondents were to be regarded as the ‘successful’ parties within the meaning of CPR 44.2(a). The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, held that the petitioners were to pay the respondents costs to be assessed on the standard basis if not agreed.

European Union

Smith v Meade and others, C-122/17, [2018] All ER (D) 88 (Aug)

EU law, in particular Art 288 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be interpreted as meaning that a national court, hearing a dispute between private persons, which found that it was unable to interpret the provisions of its national law that were contrary to a provision of a directive that satisfied all the conditions required for it to produce direct effect in a manner that was compatible with that provision,