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Weekly law digests

13 September 2018
Issue: 7808 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Building contract

Maelor Foods Ltd v Rawlings Consulting (UK) Ltd [2018] EWHC 1878 (QB), [2018] All ER (D) 177 (Jul)

The claimant employer’s CPR Pt 8 claim, seeking the court’s determination of issues of law which arose in an adjudication, was the subject matter of an arbitration agreement. Accordingly, the Technology and Construction Court, allowed the defendant contractor’s application to stay proceedings.

Costs

Ashdown and others v Griffin and others [2018] EWCA Civ 1793, [2018] All ER (D) 109 (Aug)

Although it was found that the affairs of the company had been conducted in a manner which was unfairly prejudicial to the interests of the petitioners, the respondents were to be regarded as the ‘successful’ parties within the meaning of CPR 44.2(2)(a). The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, held that the petitioners were to pay the respondents costs to be assessed on the standard basis if not agreed.

Family proceedings

Re B (A Child: Immunisation) [2018] EWFC 56, [2018] All ER (D) 11 (Sep)

It was in B, a five-year-old child’s, best welfare interests that she should receive the vaccines recommended by the routine immunisation

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ career profile: Liz McGrath KC

NLJ career profile: Liz McGrath KC

A good book, a glass of chilled Albarino, and being creative for pleasure help Liz McGrath balance the rigours of complex bundles and being Head of Chambers

Burges Salmon—Matthew Hancock-Jones

Burges Salmon—Matthew Hancock-Jones

Firm welcomes director in its financial services financial regulatory team

Gateley Legal—Sam Meiklejohn

Gateley Legal—Sam Meiklejohn

Partner appointment in firm’s equity capital markets team

NEWS

Walkers and runners will take in some of London’s finest views at the 16th annual charity event

Law school partners with charity to give free assistance to litigants in need

Could the Labour government usher in a new era for digital assets, ask Keith Oliver, head of international, and Amalia Neenan FitzGerald, associate, Peters & Peters, in this week’s NLJ

An extra bit is being added to case citations to show the pecking order of the judges concerned. Former district judge Stephen Gold has the details, in his ‘Civil way’ column in this week’s NLJ

The Labour government’s position on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is not yet clear

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