Weekly law digests

In a payment dispute relating to a JCT design and build contract 2011, the judge had not erred in holding, among other things, that the respondent employer’s purported pay less notice complied with contractual requirements. Accordingly, the Court of Appeal, Civil Division, dismissed the appellant contractor’s appeal. The court also gave guidance on whether an employer was entitled to pursue a claim in adjudication to determine the correct value of the works on the date of an interim application, notwithstanding that there was no valid pay less notice.

Children & young persons

Hertfordshire County Council v T and others [2018] EWHC 2796 (Fam), [2018] All ER (D) 156 (Aug)

The applicant local authority was successful in its application for full care orders in respect of both of the respondent mother’s children who had suffered physical, emotional, psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of both parents. The Family Division held that the threshold criteria pursuant to