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18 April 2019
Issue: 7837 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Building contract

Equitix ESI CHP (Sheff) Ltd v Veolia Energy and Utility Services UK plc [2019] EWHC 593 (TCC), [2019] All ER (D) 45 (Apr)

The claimant company’s application for two declarations in a dispute concerning the operation and maintenance of a biomass energy plant failed. The Technology and Construction Court held that, among other things, the president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators had not erred in appointing three adjudicators.

Contempt of court

Venables and another v News Group Newspapers Ltd and others; Her Majesty’s Attorney General v McKeag and another [2019] EWHC 241 (QB), [2019] All ER (D) 170 (Jan)

The first respondent would be sentenced to a custodial sentence of 12 months, suspended for two years, for infringing the injunction granted to protect the identities of the killers of James Bulger by publishing the photographs and the information about Venables’ supposed alias and workplace. The Divisional Court further sentenced the second respondent to eight months’ custody, suspended for two years, for breaking the injunction by purporting to identify Venables

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NEWS
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NLJ this week: Company conspiracy clarified
A sole director can conspire with their own company for the purposes of the tort of unlawful means conspiracy, the High Court has ruled in a judgment with potentially wide implications for business disputes
NLJ this week: Home is where intent lies
The Court of Appeal has reinforced that domicile depends on intention rather than residence alone, in a significant post-Brexit ruling on cross-border financial remedy claims
NLJ this week: Farewell to Chancery
The Chancery Division's long history comes to an end this autumn as it is reborn as the Business and Property Division, prompting questions over whether the shake-up is really necessary
NLJ this week: Silence carries a price
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) continues to show that failing to disclose regulatory issues can attract harsher consequences than the original misconduct itself
NLJ this week: Costs sting after a courtroom gamble
Rejecting a generous settlement can prove an expensive mistake, as two recent high-profile cases demonstrate
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