DAMAGES — Contract — Breach — Time charter — Late redelivery — Owners agreeing to sell vessels before final redelivery dates — Charterers redelivering vessels late and continuing to pay charterparty rates during overrun period — Whether owners entitled to recover substantial damages for late redelivery based on market rate — Whether owners’ arrangements for further employment or sale of vessels after redelivery relevant in assessing damages or to be disregarded as collateral

CRIME — Sentence — Homicide — Mixed motive killings — Defendant suffering from mental illness killing elderly mother for gain — Whether sentence manifestly excessive — Sentencing Act 2020 (c 17), Sch 21, para 3(2)(c)

ARBITRATION — Award — Successors in interest — Claimants obtaining ICSID Convention award against sovereign state — Claimants applying to register awards in English High Court — Claimants purportedly assigning rights under award by agreement — Application for order substituting assignee for claimants in registration proceedings — Whether ICSID awards assignable — Whether registration of award creating independent English enforcement rights capable of assignment — Whether assignee entitled to be substituted as claimant in award registration proceedings — Arbitration (International Investment Disputes) Act 1966 (c 41), s 1, 2(1), Sch, art 54(2)

A ruling by the European Union’s top court that online marketplaces are responsible for verifying personal information in adverts will likely have major implications for data protection across the 27 member states.

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LANDLORD AND TENANT — Repairs — Service charge — Freeholders proposing scheme of works to façade of building — Leaseholders of flats in building seeking determination of whether costs of works recoverable through service charge under leases — Whether works “cladding remediation” for which leaseholders not required to pay — Whether leaseholder protection against payment limited to works to remedy “relevant defect” as defined in legislation — Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (c 70), s 27A(3) — Building Safety Act 2022 (c 30), s 120, Sch 8, para 8

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IMMIGRATION — Right to reside — Qualifying child — Child of Nigerian national married to French citizen acquiring right to reside — Mother of child granted limited leave to remain but seeking to obtain right to reside parasitic on rights of daughter — Secretary of State refusing mother’s application for settled status — Whether right of direct descendant of self-employed worker to reside applicable to primary carer — Whether person able to claim parasitic right to reside if already granted leave to remain — Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, arts 24(2), 25(2)

JUDGMENT — Action to set aside — Fraudulently obtained judgment — Judgment given in favour of defendants — Claimants seeking to have judgment set aside as having been obtained by fraud of one of defendants — Whether permissible to set aside fraudulently obtained judgment as against a non-fraudulent party to original proceedings — Whether tests for setting aside impugned judgment needing to be met for each party individually

ELECTRICITY — Supply — Occupier of premises — Tenants occupying multiple commercial units at single address — Electricity supplied to three units via single electricity meter — Electricity supplier petitioning for winding up of premises owner for unpaid electricity supply charges — Supplier alleging owner statutorily liable for debt in absence of single person or entity in occupation of entire premises — Petition dismissed and injunction restraining advertisement of petition granted — Whether premises occupied by multiple unrelated persons to be treated as “unoccupied” for purposes of statute — Meaning of “unoccupied” under statute — Whether deemed contract arising between supplier and owner — Electricity Act 1989 (c 29), Sch 6, para 3

PLANNING — Development — Community infrastructure levy — Claimant granted self-build exemption from community infrastructure levy in respect of single dwelling development — Claimant commencing development and occupying site but subsequently securing permission for alternative two-dwelling development and selling land to developer — Local authority regarding sale of land as disqualifying event for exemption and serving liability and demand notices on claimant — Whether disqualifying event having to occur during clawback period for exemption — Whether authority having discretion to withdraw liability and demand notices — Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/948), regs 2,54

CONTEMPT OF COURT — Civil contempt — Breach of court order — Court ordering chief constable to disclosure video footage recording claimant’s arrest — Claimant bringing contempt proceedings for failure to comply with order — Ingredients of civil contempt — Whether requiring wilful, deliberate or contumelious conduct — Whether proceedings properly brought against Chief Constable — Whether finding of contempt barred if no penal notice attached to order

CRIME — Homicide — Murder — Judge discharging jury from returning verdict on murder count after jury unable to reach verdict — Jury convicting defendant of manslaughter in alternative — Whether common law rule precluding retrial for murder

The UK government has reconfirmed plans to further invest in defence, but spending will need to grow significantly to keep pace with national security threats, an expert has said.

MORTGAGE — Receiver — Sale by mortgagee — Claimant mortgagor defaulting on mortgage and receivers appointed to conduct sale of property — Claimant asserting sale proceeds insufficient and seeking order to conduct sale for limited period — Judge refusing application on basis of no exceptional circumstances for making order — Whether court only exercising discretion in favour of mortgagor in exceptional circumstances — Whether mortgagor required to demonstrate likelihood of sale at undervalue — Law of Property Act 1925 (c 20), s 91

IMMIGRATION — Leave to enter — Right to family life — Palestinian family applying for entry clearance to join father’s brother in United Kingdom — Secretary of State refusing family entry clearance on human rights grounds — Whether “family life” existing between adult siblings — Proper test to be applied — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8

SOCIAL SECURITY — Benefits — Universal credit — Claimant resident in United Kingdom claiming child element of universal credit in respect of son resident in Slovakia — Whether claimant entitled to child element under retained EU law notwithstanding universal credit being outside scope of EU law — Whether constituent elements of composite state benefit to be severed for purposes of entitlement — Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c 5), s 1 — Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 883/2004, art 3

NATURAL JUSTICE — Bias — Right to fair hearing — Local authority issuing care proceedings in respect of child with care plan favouring adoption — In course of final hearing judge indicating that adoption order would not be made whatever evidence was called — Whether judge giving proper judicial indication — Whether impermissible predetermination of issues in case — Whether serious procedural irregularity amounting to injustice

CRIME — Sentence — Imprisonment — Extended determinate sentence — Prisoners serving extended determinate sentences automatically released on licence by Secretary of State at end of appropriate custodial terms without reference to Parole Board — Licenses subject to both standard conditions and additional conditions imposed by Secretary of State — Whether imposition of additional licences conditions unlawful — Whether power to impose such conditions limited to cases where Parole Board consulted prior to release — Whether legislation to be read down to avoid breach of prisoners’ human rights — Whether prisoners’ claims to be struck out — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 3 — Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c 44), ss 226A, 226B, 246A, 250(4)(5A)(5B)(5C) — Criminal Justice (Sentencing) (Licence Conditions) Order 2015 (SI 2015/337), arts 3, 7

DATA PROTECTION — Personal data — Processing — User’s email address obtained by online publisher — User registering account on publisher’s platform allowing free access to some articles and newsletter via email and paid access to extra articles — EU Directive permitting use of unsolicited communications for “purposes of direct marketing” if user giving prior consent or if user’s email address obtained in context of “sale of ... a service” — Whether email addresses of users of platform obtained in context of “sale of ... a service” — Whether transmission of free newsletter constituting use of email for “purposes of direct marketing” for “similar products or services” — Whether publisher’s practice infringing EU data protection rules — Parliament and Council Directive 2002/58/EC, art 13(1), (2) — Parliament and Council Regulation (EU) 2016/679, art 6

PLANNING — Caravan site — Licence — Whether site licence under caravan site licensing legislation capable of authorising siting of caravans in locations inconsistent with planning permission upon which licence application based or with determination made in statutory enforcement process under planning control legislation — Relationship between planning control legislation and caravan site licensing legislation — Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c 62), ss 3(3), 29(4) — Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8) — Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (SI 2015/596), Sch 2, Pt 5

The exponential expansion of artificial intelligence across professional and personal spheres has inevitably led to its integration into human resources and recruitment functions. Research commissioned by ACAS indicates growing acceptance among employers, with approximately one-third of UK businesses surveyed believing AI deployment will enhance productivity. AI’s capability to enhance efficiency and streamline administratively intensive tasks […] The post Navigating the legal and ethical risks of AI in HR and recruitment appeared first on Internet for Lawyers Newsletter.

New regulations that will allow individual UK data centre projects to be treated as ‘nationally significant’ for the purposes of consenting have moved closer, after receiving the backing of UK law-makers.