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Law digests: 16 May 2025

16 May 2025
Issue: 8116 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Administrative law

R (on the application of the Duke of Sussex) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2025] EWCA Civ 548

The Court of Appeal (Civil Division) dismissed the claimant Prince Harry’s appeal challenging the lawfulness of the security arrangements provided by the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (RAVEC) for his visits to the UK since his change of royal status in 2020. The court held that RAVEC’s chair had good reason to depart from RAVEC’s usual policy of commissioning a risk analysis from its Risk Management Board before making security decisions regarding the claimant.


Company

Bilta (UK) Ltd (in liquidation) and others v Tradition Financial Services Ltd [2025] UKSC 18

The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of the appellant, Tradition Financial Services Ltd (TFS) who had brokered deals for some of the respondent companies who were engaged in missing trader intra-community fraud, a form of VAT fraud involving trading of carbon credits under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in 2009, and were

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

NEWS
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
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