Archive for the ‘Case Comments’ Category
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Case Comment: R (Evans) & Anor v Attorney General [2015] UKSC 21
24 Nov 2015This Supreme Court decision was the final instalment in a ten-year battle for the public disclosure of the so-called ‘Black…
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Case Comment: Sharland v Sharland [2015] UKSC 60
19 Nov 2015The long-awaited judgments in the cases of Mrs Sharland and Mrs Gohil (Gohil v Gohil [2015] UKSC 61) were delivered…
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Case Comment: Gohil v Gohil [2015] UKSC 61
19 Nov 2015The Supreme Court has delivered its judgment in the case of Gohil v Gohil, which it heard at the same…
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The Supreme Court on the penalties doctrine: recast and restricted but not rejected in full
12 Nov 2015Last week’s highly anticipated and seminal Supreme Court judgment in the joined cases of Cavendish Square Holding BV v Makdessi…
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Case Comment: Mandalia v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] UKSC 59
05 Nov 2015The Supreme Court considered whether the Secretary of State had acted unlawfully in refusing an application without following her published…
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Case Comment: Bunge SA v Nidera BV [2015] UKSC 43
29 Oct 2015Background Bunge SA (the “Seller”) contracted to sell 25,000 tonnes of Russian milling wheat to Nidera BV (the “Buyer”). The…
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Case comment: R v McGeough [2015] UKSC 62
22 Oct 2015The need for candour in an application for asylum does not rise to a requirement that the information disclosed by…
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Case Comment: Beghal v DPP [2015] UKSC 49
16 Oct 2015Typically there must be an objectively justifiable reason for stopping, searching or detaining a person or obliging them to answer…
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Case Comment: Hotak & Ors v London Borough of Southwark [2015] UKSC 30
06 Oct 2015In May 2015, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in three joined appeals relating to decisions by the respondent…
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Case Comment: Edenred (UK Group) Ltd & Anor v Her Majesty’s Treasury & Ors [2015] UKSC 45
30 Sep 2015The Supreme Court has held that the extension of an outsourcing contract by a government agency, the substance of which…