Disclosure
R (on the application of British American Tobacco (UK) Ltd and other companies) v Secretary of State for Health and other applications (Action on Smoking and Health intervening) [2018] EWHC 3586 (Admin), [2019] All ER (D) 11 (Jan)
Court documents from the claimants’ judicial review proceedings, seeking to have declared unlawful legislation that the defendant was proposing to introduce regulating the packaging of tobacco products, were to be disclosed to the applicant non-governmental organisation that promoted tobacco control measures and legislation worldwide, and thereby into the public domain. The Administrative Court had an inherent jurisdiction to order disclosure and it was immaterial that the documents sought might, technically, not all fall within the scope of the CPR.
Divorce
Quan v Bray and others [2018] EWHC 3558 (Fam), [2019] All ER (D) 07 (Jan)
On the evidence, the first respondent husband had the capacity to receive very significant fee award, on a fully commercial arms-length basis, for financial advisory work for the third respondent trust. Accordingly, the Family Division held, among other things, that the husband should pay to the applicant wife
