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The Human Rights Lawyers Association Lord Kerr Essay Competition Winner 2023: Is there a human right to live free from poverty? Should there be?
05 Sep 2023About the HRLA The Human Rights Lawyers Association (HRLA) is a membership organisation which aims to promote the effective legal…
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Case Preview: Canada Square Operations Ltd v Potter
11 Aug 2023In this post, Romina Rivero and Elizabeth Lombardo of CMS preview the decision awaited from the Supreme Court in Canada…
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New Judgment: R (on the application of PACCAR Inc and others) v Competition Appeal Tribunal and others [2023] UKSC 28
26 Jul 2023This appeal concerns a matter of statutory interpretation in the context of litigation funding. Litigation funding involves the agreement of…
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This Week in the Supreme Court – w/c 24th July 2023
24 Jul 2023Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website. On Wednesday 26th July the Court will hand-down…
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New Judgment: Jones v Birmingham City Council and another [2023] UKSC 27
19 Jul 2023The background to this appeal is gang-related violence across the United Kingdom, which is often concentrated in larger cities. Gang-related…
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This Week in the Supreme Court – w/c 17th July 2023
18 Jul 2023Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website. On Wednesday 19th July the Court will hand-down judgment in Jones v…
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New Judgment: McCulloch and others (Appellants) v Forth Valley Health Board (Respondent) (Scotland)
12 Jul 2023This case is concerned with the extent to which a doctor is required, under the duty of care owed to…
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New Judgment: Philipp (Respondent) v Barclays Bank UK PLC (Appellant) [2023] UKSC 25
12 Jul 2023On appeal from: Mrs Philipp: [2022] EWCA Civ 318 In 2018 Mrs Fiona Philipp and her husband, Dr Robin Philipp, fell…
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This Week in the Supreme Court – w/c 10th July 2023
10 Jul 2023Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website. On Wednesday 12th July the Court will hand-down…
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New Judgment: R (on the application of Officer W80) v Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct and others [2023] UKSC 24.
05 Jul 2023W80, an armed police officer, shot Jermaine Baker dead in a police operation. Mr Baker was implicated in a plot…