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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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NLJ this week: Divorce ‘nuclear weapon’ freezes assets but entangles outsiders
Freezing orders in divorce proceedings can unexpectedly ensnare third parties and disrupt businesses. In NLJ this week, Lucy James of Trowers & Hamlins explains how these orders—dubbed a ‘nuclear weapon’—preserve assets but can extend far beyond spouses to companies and business partners 
NLJ this week: What counts as ‘rent’? Court says labour alone won’t do
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified that ‘rent’ must be monetary—excluding tenants paid in labour from statutory protection. In this week's NLJ, James Naylor explains Garraway v Phillips, where a tenant worked two days a week instead of paying rent
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NLJ this week: Freed but failed—justice system leaves the innocent empty-handed
Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
NLJ this week: Clarity on whistleblowing, settlements and tribunal limits
A quiet month for employment cases still delivers key legal clarifications. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ, Ian Smith reports that whistleblowing protection remains intact even where disclosures are partly self-serving, provided the worker reasonably believes they serve the ‘public interest’ 
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