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Weekly law digests

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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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

NEWS
Robert Taylor of 360 Law Services warns in this week's NLJ that adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) risks entrenching disadvantage for SME law firms, unless tools are tailored to their needs
The Court of Protection has ruled in Macpherson v Sunderland City Council that capacity must be presumed unless clearly rebutted. In this week's NLJ, Sam Karim KC and Sophie Hurst of Kings Chambers dissect the judgment and set out practical guidance for advisers faced with issues relating to retrospective capacity and/or assessments without an examination
Delays and dysfunction continue to mount in the county court, as revealed in a scathing Justice Committee report and under discussion this week by NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School. Bulk claims—especially from private parking firms—are overwhelming the system, with 8,000 cases filed weekly
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ
From oligarchs to cosmetic clinics, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) target journalists, activists and ordinary citizens with intimidating legal tactics. Writing in NLJ this week, Sadie Whittam of Lancaster University explores the weaponisation of litigation to silence critics
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