Archive for the ‘Case Comments’ Category
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Case Comment: R (Reilly & Anor) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
15 Apr 2014On 30 October 2013, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in R (Reilly & Anor) v Secretary of State…
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Case Comment: Raymond Brownlee’s application for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2014] UKSC 4
08 Apr 2014The Supreme Court allowed the appeal of Mr Brownlee, who had applied for judicial review of the Northern Ireland Legal…
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Case Comment: Richardson & Anor v DPP [2014] UKSC 8
07 Apr 2014The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of two protestors, Richardson and Wilkinson, for aggravated trespass. They had obstructed the trading…
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Joint Administrators of Heritable Bank plc (Respondent) v The Winding-Up Board of Landsbanki Islands hf (Appellant) (Scotland) [2013] UKSC 13
26 Mar 2014On appeal from [2011] CSIH 61 On 27 February 2013, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a decision of the Inner…
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Case Comment: R (BSkyB) v Commissioner of Police [2014] UKSC 17
24 Mar 2014On 12 March 2014, the Supreme Court gave judgment in the case of R (BSkyB) v Commissioner of Police [2014]…
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Case Comment: R (Osborn) v Parole Board; & 2 other cases [2013] UKSC 61
19 Mar 2014In an important and wide-ranging judgment, the Supreme Court considered an appeal from three prisoners (previewed for the UKSC blog…
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Case Comment: EM v Secretary of State for the Home Department
17 Mar 2014The Supreme Court has now decided that all that an asylum seeker need prove in order to prevent their removal…
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Case Comment: Stott v Thomas Cook [2014] UKSC 15
07 Mar 2014‘Exposing a Grave Injustice’: Montreal Exclusivity and the Rights of Disabled Passengers On March 5, 2014 the Supreme Court handed…
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Case Comment: West London Mental Health NHS Trust v Chhabra [2013] UKSC 80
11 Feb 2014Is it possible for the Court to intervene to prevent an employer from demanding an employee face a charge of…
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Case Comment: Cotter v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2013] UKSC 69
11 Feb 2014Towards the end of last year, the Supreme Court released its judgment in the case of Cotter v Revenue and…