Archive for the ‘Case Comments’ Category
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Case Comment: Coventry & Ors v Lawrence & Anor [2014] UKSC 13
14 Apr 2015On appeal from [2012] EWCA Civ 26 Brief Facts Katherine Lawrence and Raymond Shields moved into a residential property near…
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Case Comment 2: R (SG & Ors) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2015] UKSC 16
13 Apr 2015This post first appeared on the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog on 13 April 2015. Following on from Paul Scott’s…
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Case Comment: R (Catt) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis & Anor and another case [2015] UKSC 9
08 Apr 2015This post first appeared on the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog on 7 April 2015. Can the retention of records…
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Case Comment: Sea Shepherd UK v Fish & Fish Ltd [2015] UKSC 10
07 Apr 2015This judgment contains a useful summary of the law on accessory liability in tort. This principle is necessarily fact-sensitive, and…
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Case Comment: R (SG & Ors) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2015] UKSC 16
01 Apr 2015This post first appeared on the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog on 31 March 2015. A prominent element of the…
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Case Comment: R (Newhaven Port and Properties Ltd) v East Sussex County Council & Anor [2015] UKSC 7; R (Barkas) v North Yorkshire County Council & Anor [2014] UKSC 31
30 Mar 2015Two recent decisions of the UKSC have considered the meaning of the phrase “as of right” in the Commons Act…
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Case Comment: Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11
27 Mar 2015The appellant, Nadine Montgomery, gave birth on 1 October 1999 and, as a result of complications during delivery, her son…
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Case Comment: Tael One Partners Limited v Morgan Stanley & Co International plc [2015] UKSC 12
27 Mar 2015Tael’s appeal, which was heard in the Supreme Court on 17 November 2014, raised a question of contractual interpretation in…
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Case Comment: Jackson v Murray [2015] UKSC 5
18 Mar 2015The opening paragraph of Lord Reed’s leading judgment allowing the appellant’s appeal in Jackson v Murray sets the scene for…
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Case Comment: R (Lord Carlile of Berriew QC & Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] UKSC 60
16 Mar 2015This judgment raises interesting issues about how the court is to assess the proportionality of interferences with fundamental ECHR rights…