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Law digests: 29 January 2021

28 January 2021
Issue: 7918 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Asylum

R (on the application of AS) v Liverpool City Council [2020] EWHC 3531 (Admin), [2021] All ER (D) 02 (Jan)

In the course of judicial review proceedings, challenging an age assessment conducted on behalf of the defendant local authority, which had concluded that the claimant asylum seeker was aged 20 or over and not a child, as he claimed, the Administrative Court allowed the claimant’s application for interim relief and granted an order that the authority should continue to accommodate and support him as a child in its care. Interim relief was granted until the issue of permission to apply for judicial review was determined, or further order.


Conflict of laws

Etihad Airways PJSC v Flöther [2020] EWCA Civ 1707, [2021] All ER (D) 05 (Jan)

In dismissing the appeal of Air Berlin’s insolvency administrator, whose application disputed the jurisdiction of the English courts to resolve disputes arising out of a facility agreement entered into between Air Berlin and the respondent, the Court of Appeal, Civil Division, found that the ‘asymmetric’

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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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