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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: Deepfakes demand data law muscle
As AI-generated ‘deepfake’ images proliferate, the law may already have the tools to respond. In NLJ this week, Jon Belcher of Excello Law argues that such images amount to personal data processing under UK GDPR
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NLJ this week: CPR tweak closes third-party disclosure gap
A seemingly dry procedural update may prove potent. In his latest 'Civil way' column for NLJ this week, Stephen Gold explains that new CPR 31.12A—part of the 193rd update—fills a ‘lacuna’ exposed in McLaren Indy v Alpa Racing
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