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Two appeals are to be heard in the Supreme Court this week. First, there are the linked cases R (on the application of GC) v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and R (on the application of C) v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, being heard from Monday 31 January to Tuesday 1 February. The appeal will be heard by Lords Phillips and Rodger, Lady Hale, Lords Brown, Judge, Kerr and Dyson and the issue is whether the continued retention of the DNA, fingerprints and a photograph of GC and of the DNA, fingerprints and information on the police national computer in respect of C, violates their rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Here is our case preview for R (GC) v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and here are the Supreme Court case details for R(GC) and here are the case details for R(C).
The second appeal In the matter of an application by Brigid McCaughey and another for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) will be heard on Wednesday 2 to Thursday 3 February by Lords Phillips, Hope and Rodger, Lady Hale and Lords Brown, Kerr and Dyson. The case is concerned with whether there is an obligation to conduct an Article 2 ECHR-compliant inquest into deaths and subsequent investigations which occurred before the commencement of the Human Rights Act 1998; and whether the decision in Re McKerr should be overruled in the light of the Grand Chamber decision in Silih v Slovenia. Here are the Supreme Court case details.
The Supreme Court has announced judgments will be handed down on Tuesday 1 February 2011 in the cases of ZH (Tanzania) (FC) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, heard 9-10 November 2010; and Global Process Systems Inc and another v Syarikat Takaful Malaysia Berhad, heard 28 July 2010 (here is our case preview for Global Process Systems).
In the Privy Council, on Monday 31 January to Tuesday 1 February, Lords Hope, Mance, Collins, Clarke and Reed will heard Tasarruf Mevduati Sigorta Fonu v Merrill Lynch Bank and Trust Company (Cayman) Limited & Others. The case from the Cayman Islands concerns the enforceability of a judgment by a creditor against a settlor of a trust through the power of revocation held by the settlor. Here are the Privy Council case details.
No judgments have been announced for hand-down this week in the Privy Council.
Judgments outstanding
The following Supreme Court judgments remain outstanding:
R (SK) (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, heard 10-11 Feb 2010
Sienkiewicz (Administratrix of the Estate of Enid Costello deceased) v Greif (UK) Limited and Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council) v Willmore, heard 26-28 October 2010
JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A. and another v Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) Anstalt des Oeffentlichen Rechts, heard 11 November 2010
WL Congo 1 and 2 & anr v Secretary of State for the Home Department and KM (Jamaica) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, heard 15-18 November 2010
Baker v Quantum Clothing Group Limited & Ors; Baker v Quantum Clothing Group Limited & Ors (Pretty Polly Limited); and Baker v Quantum Clothing Group Limited & Ors (Meridian Limited), heard 22-24 November 2010
Mayor & Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow v Powell; Leeds City Council v Hall; and Birmingham City Council v Frisby, heard 23-24 November 2010
Patmalniece (FC) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, heard 29 November – 1 December 2010
R v F and R v M, heard 6 December 2010
Jones v Kaney, heard 11 – 12 January 2011
Duncombe and others v Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, heard 17-18 January 2011
Farstad Supply A/S v Enviroco, heard 19-20 January 2011
Al Rawi and others v The Security Service and others, heard 24 -27 January 2011
Home Office v Tariq, heard 24 -27 January 2011
The following Privy Council judgments are awaited:
Romeo Cannonier & Ors v The Queen (St Christopher & Nevis) and Romeo Cannonier v The Queen (St Christopher & Nevis), heard 13 May 2010
The Public Service Appeal Board v Omar Maraj (Trinidad & Tobago), heard 5 October 2010
Tabeel Lewis v The State of Trinidad & Tobago, heard 11 October 2010
Charles Villeneuve & Anr v Joel Gaillard & Anr (Bahamas), heard 20-21 October 2010
Steven Kent Jervis & Another v Victor John Skinner (Bahamas), heard 27-28 October 2010
AK Investment CJSC v Kyrgyz Mobil Tel Limited and Others; Altimo Holdings and Investments Limited v Kyrgyz Mobil Tel Limited and Others; CP Credit Prive SA v Kyrgyz Mobil Tel Limited and Others; and Fellowes International Holdings Limited v Kyrgyz Mobil Tel Limited and Others, heard 30 November-7 December 2010.
Nigel Sookram v The Queen (Grenada), heard 19 January 2011
John Thompson & Another (Original Appellants/Cross Respondents) v Goblin Hill Hotels Limited (Original Respondents/Cross Appellants) (Jamaica), heard 20 January 2011
