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Weekly law digests

17 January 2019
Issue: 7824 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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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

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Sports, education and charities practice welcomes senior associate

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Partner and head of commercial litigation joins in Chelmsford

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Firm strengthens Glasgow corporate practice with partner hire

NEWS
One in five in-house lawyers suffer ‘high’ or ‘severe’ work-related stress, according to a report by global legal body, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
The Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO’s) plea for a budget increase has been rejected by the Law Society and accepted only ‘with reluctance’ by conveyancers
Overcrowded prisons, mental health hospitals and immigration centres are failing to meet international and domestic human rights standards, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has warned
Two speedier and more streamlined qualification routes have been launched for probate and conveyancing professionals
Workplace stress was a contributing factor in almost one in eight cases before the employment tribunal last year, indicating its endemic grip on the UK workplace
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