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13 September 2018
Issue: 7808 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Weekly law digests

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

Hogan Lovells—Lisa Quelch

Hogan Lovells—Lisa Quelch

Partner hire strengthens global infrastructure and energy financing practice

Sherrards—Jan Kunstyr

Sherrards—Jan Kunstyr

Legal director bolsters international expertise in dispute resolution team

Muckle LLP—Stacey Brown

Muckle LLP—Stacey Brown

Corporate governance and company law specialist joins the team

NEWS

NOTICE UNDER THE TRUSTEE ACT 1925

HERBERT SMITH STAFF PENSION SCHEME (THE “SCHEME”)

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND BENEFICIARIES UNDER SECTION 27 OF THE TRUSTEE ACT 1925
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From gender-critical speech to notice periods and incapability dismissals, employment law continues to turn on fine distinctions. In his latest employment law brief for NLJ, Ian Smith of Norwich Law School reviews a cluster of recent decisions, led by Bailey v Stonewall, where the Court of Appeal clarified the limits of third-party liability under the Equality Act
Non-molestation orders are meant to be the frontline defence against domestic abuse, yet their enforcement often falls short. Writing in NLJ this week, Jeni Kavanagh, Jessica Mortimer and Oliver Kavanagh analyse why the criminalisation of breach has failed to deliver consistent protection
Assisted dying remains one of the most fraught fault lines in English law, where compassion and criminal liability sit uncomfortably close. Writing in NLJ this week, Julie Gowland and Barny Croft of Birketts examine how acts motivated by care—booking travel, completing paperwork, or offering emotional support—can still fall within the wide reach of the Suicide Act 1961
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