Building contract
Equitix ESI CHP (Sheff) Ltd v Veolia Energy and Utility Services UK plc [2019] EWHC 593 (TCC), [2019] All ER (D) 45 (Apr)
The claimant company’s application for two declarations in a dispute concerning the operation and maintenance of a biomass energy plant failed. The Technology and Construction Court held that, among other things, the president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators had not erred in appointing three adjudicators.
Contempt of court
Venables and another v News Group Newspapers Ltd and others; Her Majesty’s Attorney General v McKeag and another [2019] EWHC 241 (QB), [2019] All ER (D) 170 (Jan)
The first respondent would be sentenced to a custodial sentence of 12 months, suspended for two years, for infringing the injunction granted to protect the identities of the killers of James Bulger by publishing the photographs and the information about Venables’ supposed alias and workplace. The Divisional Court further sentenced the second respondent to eight months’ custody, suspended for two years, for breaking the injunction by purporting to identify Venables
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