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Weekly law digests

03 October 2019
Issue: 7858 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Contract

NHS Commissioning Board (known as NHS England) v Vasant (trading as MK Vasant & Associates) and others [2019] EWCA Civ 1245, [2019] All ER (D) 190 (Jul)

The defendant, NHS England, was not entitled to terminate contractual arrangements under which the claimant dentists supplied an intermediate minor oral surgery service to the NHS. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, in dismissing the NHS’s appeal, held that the NHS had varied its agreement with the dentists so as to incorporate that service within its general dental services contract with them, under which the NHS was not entitled to terminate the contract in the absence of any default by the dentists.

Elections

R (on the application of the Good Law Project) v Electoral Commission [2019] EWCA Civ 1567, [2019] All ER (D) 48 (Sep)

The correct interpretation of the legislation read as a whole was that a donation to a permitted participant could not also be an expense incurred by the donor and the Divisional Court’s interpretation was wrong. Accordingly, the Court of Appeal, Civil

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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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