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Weekly law digests

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

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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
Ceri Morgan, knowledge counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, analyses the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd, which reshapes the law of fiduciary relationships and common law bribery
The boundaries of media access in family law are scrutinised by Nicholas Dobson in NLJ this week
Reflecting on personal experience, Professor Graham Zellick KC, Senior Master of the Bench and former Reader of the Middle Temple, questions the unchecked power of parliamentary privilege
Geoff Dover, managing director at Heirloom Fair Legal, sets out a blueprint for ethical litigation funding in the wake of high-profile law firm collapses
James Grice, head of innovation and AI at Lawfront, explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the legal sector
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