Archive for March, 2014
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New Judgment: Dunhill (Tasker) v Burgin; Dunhill (Tasker) v Burgin (No 2) [2014] UKSC 18
12 Mar 2014On appeal from: [2012] EWCA Civ 397 The respondent was hit by a motorcycle driven by the appellant and suffered…
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New Judgment: R (British Sky Broadcasting Ltd) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2014] UKSC 17
12 Mar 2014On appeal from: [2011] EWHC 3451(Admin). The police appealed against BSkyB’s judicial review of a Crown Court decision to grant…
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Case Comment: Stott v Thomas Cook [2014] UKSC 15
07 Mar 2014‘Exposing a Grave Injustice’: Montreal Exclusivity and the Rights of Disabled Passengers On March 5, 2014 the Supreme Court handed…
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Supreme Courts Around the World: Hidden Camera Captures Protest that Interrupts U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument
06 Mar 2014On Wednesday, February 26, 2014, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases involving attorney’s fees in…
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A scarcity of dissents?
06 Mar 2014Wednesday 19 February 2014 was an unusual day in the Supreme Court. After an astonishing gap of exactly eight months…
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New Judgment: Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs v Secret Hotels2 Ltd [2014] UKSC 16
05 Mar 2014On appeal from: [2012] EWCA Civ 1571 This appeal concerned the liability for VAT of a company known as “Med”,…
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New Judgment: Stott v Thomas Cook Tour Operators Ltd [2014] UKSC 15
05 Mar 2014On appeal from: [2012] EWCA Civ 66 The appellant is a man paralysed from the shoulders down who depends on…
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Supreme Court art: Welsh bards
04 Mar 2014I am startled to hear an invocation of the Middle English poet Gower. No, it’s GOWA (the Government of Wales…
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In the Supreme Court w/c 3 March 2014
03 Mar 2014Listed for two and a half days from this morning is the appeal of Scott v Southern Pacific Mortgages Ltd…