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Law digests: 18 October 2024

18 October 2024
Issue: 8090 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Bankruptcy

Cooper and others v Dashi (aka Rugova) and other companies [2024] EWHC 2102 (Ch), [2024] All ER (D) 56 (Aug)

The Chancery Division made rulings on applications made by the joint trustees in bankruptcy of EW. Among other things, the respondents would not be required to make further disclosure of documents. The court held that it would not make an order for the examination of the first respondent (D), who had made two witness statements. No evidence had been produced that would allow it to hold that the statements of D were untrue.


Housing

R (on application of RR) v London Borough of Enfield [2024] EWHC 2501 (Admin), [2024] All ER (D) 09 (Oct)

The Administrative Court dismissed the claimant’s judicial review claim of the defendant local authority’s allocation scheme of social housing (the scheme) in circumstances where the claimant who acted as a full-time carer for his wife and two young children had been allocated a small one-bedroomed flat as temporary accommodation under a points system for housing priority. The claimant

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Serious injury teambolstered by high-profile partner hire

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

NEWS
Tech companies will be legally required to prevent material that encourages or assists serious self-harm appearing on their platforms, under Online Safety Act 2023 regulations due to come into force in the autumn
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found
Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release
David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle
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