Archive for July, 2013
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New Judgment: Torfaen County Borough Council v Douglas Willis Ltd [2013] UKSC 59
31 Jul 2013On appeal from: [2012] EWHC 296. Inspectors for the appellants visited the premises of the respondent company and found packages…
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New Judgment: McGraddie v McGraddie & Anor [2013] UKSC 58
31 Jul 2013On appeal from: [2012] CSIH 23. The appellant and first respondent are father and son respectively, and this case concerned…
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New Judgment: Teal Assurance Company Ltd v W R Berkley Insurance (Europe) Ltd & Anor [2013] UKSC 57
31 Jul 2013On appeal from: [2011] EWCA Civ 1570. Concerns the order in which claims made by an insured exhaust layers of…
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New Judgment: R v Hughes [2013] UKSC 56
31 Jul 2013On appeal from: [2011] EWCA Crim 1508. The appellant was involved in a traffic accident that resulted in the death…
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Case Comment: Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC v AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLP [2013] UKSC 35
30 Jul 2013On 12 June 2013, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed an appeal against the Court of Appeal’s decision in AES Ust-Kamenogorsk…
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UKSC Essay Competition 2013: A Winner’s Week at Olswang, the Guardian and the Supreme Court
30 Jul 2013It would be nice to tie together with a single thread the working environments of three of the UKSC Blog…
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New Judgment: South Lanarkshire Council v Scottish Information Commissioner [2013] UKSC 55
29 Jul 2013On appeal from [2012] CSIH 30. Concerns a request for information about the number (but not the identity) of the…
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In the Supreme Court w/c 29 July 2013
29 Jul 2013It’s the last week of the Trinity Term. Today in Courtroom 2 is the matter of R (Reilly & Anor)…
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Case Preview: Bucnys & Anor v Ministry of Justice of Lithuania; Lavrov v Ministry of Justice of Estonia
25 Jul 2013On the 16th July the Supreme Court returned to the vexed question of what constitutes a “judicial authority” for the…
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New Judgment: R (Modaresi) v Secretary of State for Health [2013] UKSC 53
24 Jul 2013On appeal from: [2011] EWCA Civ 1359. The appellant was detained under the Mental Health Act 1983, s 2 and…