Archive for December, 2009
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JFS: Commentary in the Press
22 Dec 2009There has been a plethora of articles commenting on the recent result in JFS. In The Guardian, Mark Hill QC,…
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Vodafone refused leave to appeal in key tax decision
22 Dec 2009The Supreme Court has refused Vodafone leave to appeal from the Court of Appeal’s decision in Vodafone 2 v The…
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OFT drops bank charges investigation
22 Dec 2009The OFT announced today that, as a result of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the bank charges litigation at the…
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Case Comment: R (E) v Governing Body of JFS & Ors [2009] UKSC 15
21 Dec 2009On 16 December judgment was handed down in the widely reported JFS case. The appeal itself was heard by the…
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Supreme Court oversteps the mark?
20 Dec 2009In any event, as the author rightly points out, this is the second contract judgment in a row (Chartbrook v…
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The United Kingdom in Strasbourg – Autumn 2009
18 Dec 2009Although in its recent decision in R v Horncastle ([2009] UKSC 14), the Supreme Court indicated that it would not…
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Case Comment: AM (Somalia) and others v Entry Clearance Officer [2009] UKSC 16
17 Dec 2009In brief, then, in its judgment given on 16 December 2009 the Court unanimously held that an Entry Clearance Officer…
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Judgment from ECHR: Financial Times Ltd & Ors v UK
16 Dec 2009The European Court of Human Rights yesterday gave judgment in the Interbrew case: Financial Times Ltd & Ors v UK…
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New Judgment: R (E) v Governing Body of JFS [2009] UKSC 15
16 Dec 2009On appeal from: [2009] EWCA Civ 626 A panel of nine Justices of the Supreme Court determined that a criterion…
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Case Comment: Nadine Rodriguez v The Minister for Housing of the Government of Gibraltar and the Housing Allocation Committee
16 Dec 2009The Board of the Privy Council has unanimously decided that a government housing allocation policy favouring married couples and couples…
