Archive for October, 2013
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11-1 gender ratio Court’s Achilles heel: Reporting of the Supreme Court’s start of the year press briefing
18 Oct 2013A relationship of cooperation but also competing interests On October 2 at 10am, the United Kingdom Supreme Court held an…
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Lord Neuberger on the rule of law and access to justice – choice excerpts
16 Oct 2013Last night, Lord Neuberger, the President of the UK Supreme Court, gave the 2013 Tom Sargant Memorial Lecture. His text, available here,…
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New Judgment: R (Chester) v Secretary of State for Justice; McGeoch v The Lord President of the Council & Anor [2013] UKSC 63
16 Oct 2013On appeal from: [2010] EWCA Civ 1439 and [2011] CSIH 67 The appellants, both prisoners serving life sentences, sought judicial…
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In the Supreme Court w/c 14 October 2013
14 Oct 2013Listed for two days from Tuesday are the linked matters of R (HS2 Action Alliance Ltd) v The Secretary of…
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Case Preview: Bull & Anor v Hall & Anor
10 Oct 2013The Supreme Court will hear an appeal on whether refusing, on religious grounds, to let a double hotel room to…
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New Judgment: Secretary of State for the Home Department v Al-Jedda [2013] UKSC 62
09 Oct 2013On appeal from [2012] EWCA Civ 358. The Court unanimously dismissed the appeal; the Secretary of State’s order under the…
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New Judgment: Osborn v The Parole Board; Booth v The Parole Board; In the matter of an application of James Clyde Reilly for Judicial Review (NI) [2013] UKSC 61
09 Oct 2013On appeal from: [2010] EWCA Civ 1409; [2011] NICA 6 These appeals concerned the circumstances in which the Parole Board…
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Case Preview: G v Scottish Ministers & Anor (Scotland)
08 Oct 2013There are five Scottish cases set down for this term. This is the first and it was heard yesterday and today.…
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Ireland shakes up appellate court system
08 Oct 2013Ireland has made significant changes to its court structure after a referendum on the Thirty-third Amendment of the Constitution Bill…
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Case Comment: O’Neill No 2 v Her Majesty’s Advocate (Scotland) [2013] UKSC 36
07 Oct 2013The case concerned the scope of the right to a fair trial under ECHR, art 6, specifically the right to…