Archive for November, 2017
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New Judgment: Tiuta International Ltd (in liquidation) v De Villiers Surveyors Ltd [2017] UKSC 77
29 Nov 2017On appeal from: [2016] EWCA Civ 661. The appeal related to the loss occasioned in a re-financing situation, where a second…
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Case Preview: R (B) v Secretary of State for the Home Department Part Two
28 Nov 2017The legislative framework predicated (i) bail on the individual being detained, and (ii) temporary admission on a person being either…
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Case Preview: R (B) v Secretary of State for the Home Department Part One
28 Nov 2017The respondent “B” entered the UK illegally in 1993. He is probably from Algeria. But since he refuses to identify…
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UK Supreme Court bound for Northern Ireland
27 Nov 2017Lady Hale has announced that the UK Supreme Court will sit in Northern Ireland, in the Inns of Court Library…
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In the Supreme Court w/c 27 November 2017
27 Nov 2017Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website. On Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 November, the…
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Case Comment: Ivey v Genting Casinos UK Ltd t/a Crockfords [2017] UKSC 67
24 Nov 2017In the month which has elapsed since the handing down of the Supreme Court’s judgment in Ivey v Genting Casinos…
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Case Comment: Brown v Parole Board for Scotland & Ors [2017] UKSC 69
23 Nov 2017In Brown v Parole Board for Scotland & Ors [2017] UKSC 69 the Supreme Court has once again considered claims by IPP prisoners alleging…
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In the Supreme Court w/c 20 November 2017
20 Nov 2017Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website. On Monday 20 November, the Supreme Court will…
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New Judgment: Scotch Whisky Association & Ors v The Lord Advocate & Anor [2017] UKSC 76
15 Nov 2017On appeal from: [2016] CSIH 77 This appeal considered whether the Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012 is incompatible with…
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New Judgment: Gordon and others, as the Trustees of the Inter Vivos Trust of the late William Strathdee Gordon v Campbell Riddell Breeze Paterson LLP (Scotland) [2017] UKSC 75
15 Nov 2017On appeal from: [2016] CSIH 16 This appeal considered whether the five year prescriptive period under the Prescription and Limitation…