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Weekly law digests

09 February 2018
Issue: 7780 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Agricultural holding

Smyth-Tyrrell and another v Bowden [2018] EWHC 106 (Ch) [2018] All ER (D) 22 (Feb)

The claimants’ claim, in which they sought declarations regarding a portion of land in Cornwall, failed. The Chancery Division held that the claimants had possessed neither a tenancy under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, nor a business tenancy under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Pt II. The claimants were not entitled to an interest in the land via the doctrine of proprietary estoppel.

Bank

Singularis Holdings Ltd (in official liquidation) (a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands) v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 84 [2018] All ER (D) 10 (Feb)

A company in liquidation, Singularis Holdings Ltd, had successfully brought a claim, alleging negligence and breach of contract, against an investment bank, Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd (Daiwa), to recover sums which Daiwa had paid from its client account to other companies at the instigation of Singularis’s sole shareholder and director. The Financial List, in dismissing Daiwa’s appeal, held, among other things, that

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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
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, 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
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
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
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
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