Archive for July, 2009
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Lord Neuberger Appointed Master of the Rolls
23 Jul 2009The long anticipated appointment of Lord Neuberger to replace Lord Clarke as Master of the Rolls was finally announced today.…
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Judicial Business 22 July 2009
22 Jul 2009On Tuesday 21 July 2009 the House of Lords made its final orders on petitions. The House of Lords is…
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Judicial Business 16 July 2009
17 Jul 2009The House of Lords dealt with a number of petitions and other procedural matters. Leave to appeal was refused in…
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Next Weeks’s House of Lords Business, w/c 20 July 2009
17 Jul 2009The House of Lords will hear one appeal next week, over three days, 20 to 23 July 2009, in the…
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Case Comment: Moran v Manchester City Council [2009] UKHL 36
03 Jul 2009This decision concerns the duties of local housing authorities under Part 7 of the Housing Act 1996 towards persons rendered…
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Case Comment: SCA Packaging Ltd v Boyle [2009] UKHL 37
02 Jul 2009This is the first case to reach the HL on certain of the complex and more nuanced aspects of the…
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New Judgment: SCA Packaging Ltd (appellants) v Boyle (respondent) [2009] UKHL 37
01 Jul 2009On appeal from: [2008] NICA 48. Discusses the meaning, effect and interrelationship of the various provisions of Sch 1 to…
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New Judgment: Chartbrook Ltd (respondents) v Persimmon Homes Ltd & Ors (appellants) & Anor (respondent) [2009] UKHL 38
01 Jul 2009On appeal from: [2008] EWCA Civ 183. Appeal allowed: the rule in Prenn v Simmonds [1971] 1 WLR 1381, that…
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New Judgment: Birmingham CC (appellants) v Ali & Ors (respondents); Moran (appellant) v Manchester CC (respondent) [2009] UKHL 36
01 Jul 2009On appeal from: [2008] EWCA Civ 1228; [2008] EWCA Civ 378. Concerned the duties of local housing authorities towards homeless…