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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

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Freeths—Ruth Clare

National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Partner appointed head of family team

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

NEWS
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)
The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness
A Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruling has reopened debate on the availability of ‘user damages’ in competition claims. Writing in NLJ this week, Edward Nyman of Hausfeld explains how the CAT allowed Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen’s alternative damages case against Meta to proceed, rejecting arguments that such damages are barred in competition law
The next generation is inheriting more than assets—it is inheriting complexity. Writing in NLJ this week, experts from Penningtons Manches Cooper chart how global mobility, blended families and evolving values are reshaping private wealth advice
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