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Weekly law digests

10 January 2019
Issue: 7823 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Abduction

Re C (children) (abduction: physical or psychological harm) [2018] EWCA Civ 2834, [2019] All ER (D) 02 (Jan)

The appellant father was successful in his appeal against the judge’s decision to dismiss his application for the return of his two children to South Africa, pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, in allowing the appeal, held that the evidence had not supported the judge’s conclusions on which he had based his determination that Art 13(b) had been established, and the judge had failed to analyse the nature and degree of any risk based on the situation, as it would be for the children, in the future.

Child

Re A and B (children) [2018] EWHC 3491 (Fam), [2019] All ER (D) 01 (Jan)

The balance came down clearly and decisively against granting the applicant journalist permission to publish information about care proceedings brought by the respondent local authority in relation to two children. The Family Division also held that an injunction sought

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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

NEWS
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
In this week's NLJ, Steven Ball of Red Lion Chambers unpacks how advances in forensic science finally unmasked Ryland Headley, jailed in 2025 for the 1967 rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne. Preserved swabs and palm prints lay dormant for decades until DNA-17 profiling produced a billion-to-one match
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
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