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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

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

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