Archive for March, 2010
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Supreme Courts Around the World: 1 – 28 February 2010
15 Mar 2010The World’s Supreme Courts were busy during February 2010, and a summary of the cases heard in each of them…
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Lord Phillips Interviewed by the Constitution Society
14 Mar 2010Our attention has been drawn to an interview with Lord Phillips, carried out by Michael Harris of the Constitution Society…
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Case preview: R (Smith) v Secretary of State for Defence – on appeal from [2009] EWCA Civ 441
13 Mar 2010This appeal is listed before a nine-Justice Supreme Court on 16 March 2010. Five of the Justices were members of…
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In the Supreme Court w/c 15 March 2010
12 Mar 2010The Supreme Court will hear one full appeal and an application for permission to appeal this week, and one judgment…
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Profiles: Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood
11 Mar 2010To continue our series of profiles of the Justices of the Supreme Court (for previous posts see Lord Rodger here,…
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New Judgment: RTS Flexible Systems Ltd v Molkerei Alois Muller Gmbh & Company KG (UK Production) [2010] UKSC 14
10 Mar 2010On appeal from: [2009] EWCA Civ 26. The question before the Court was whether the parties entered into a contract…
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New Judgment: Agbaje v Akinnoye-Agbaje [2010] UKSC 13
10 Mar 2010On appeal from: [2009] EWCA Civ 1. The Court considered the proper approach for courts to take when considering applications…
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Christian registrar denied leave to appeal gay wedding refusal [updated]
09 Mar 2010The Telegraph reports that the UKSC has refused Lillian Ladele permission to appeal against the decision in Ladele v Islington…
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Case Comment: R (Lewis) v Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council [2010] UKSC 11
08 Mar 2010This case arises out of a long running dispute between local residents and their council over the plan to allow developers to build new homes…
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Case Comment: W (children) [2010] UKSC 12
08 Mar 2010On Wednesday 3 March 2010 the Supreme Court delivered judgment in W (children) [2010] UKSC 12, one day after hearing…