Archive for the ‘Case Comments’ Category
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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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Case Comment: West London Mental Health NHS Trust v Chhabra [2013] UKSC 80
11 Feb 2014Is it possible for the Court to intervene to prevent an employer from demanding an employee face a charge of…
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Case Comment: Cotter v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2013] UKSC 69
11 Feb 2014Towards the end of last year, the Supreme Court released its judgment in the case of Cotter v Revenue and…
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Case Comment: Chester v Secretary of State for Justice; McGeoch v The Lord President of the Council & Anor [2013] UKSC 63
20 Dec 2013The judgments in R (Chester) v Secretary of State for Justice; R (McGeogh) v The Lord President of the Council…
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Case Comment: Al Jedda v SSHD [2013] UKSC 62
17 Dec 2013The judgment in Secretary of State for the Home Department v Al-Jedda [2013] UKSC 62 was handed down in October.…
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Case Comment: Woodland v Essex County Council [2013] UKSC 66
28 Nov 2013On 23 October, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the case of Woodland v Essex County Council. The…
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Case Comment: O’Neill No 2 v Her Majesty’s Advocate (Scotland) [2013] UKSC 36
07 Oct 2013The case concerned the scope of the right to a fair trial under ECHR, art 6, specifically the right to…
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Case Comment: R (AA) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] UKSC 49
14 Aug 2013This case concerned the lawfulness or otherwise of detaining a person believed to be an adult but subsequently assessed to…
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Case Comment:Torfaen County Borough Council v Douglas Willis Ltd [2013] UKSC 59
13 Aug 2013On 9 July 2013 a panel of five justices (Lady Hale and Lords Kerr, Wilson, Reed and Carnwath) heard a…
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Case Comment: R (New London College Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; & anor case [2013] UKSC 51
07 Aug 2013In a judgment handed down on 17 July 2013, the Supreme Court (leading opinion of Lord Sumption, with which Lords…