Archive for the ‘Case Comments’ Category
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Case Comment: Shepherd Masimba Kambadzi (previously SK (Zimbabwe)) v SSHD [2011] UKSC 23
10 Jun 2011The handing down of the decision in Kambadzi (previously SK Zimbabwe) relatively shortly after Lumba is welcomed not least given…
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Case Comment: FA (Iraq) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] UKSC 22
06 Jun 2011The Supreme Court has decided that guidance is needed from the CJEU on a number of issues relating to the…
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Case Comment: R (GC) v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis; R (C) v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2011] UKSC 21
03 Jun 2011The Association of Chief Police Officers guidelines on the retention of DNA and fingerprints provide, among other things, for the…
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Case Comment: Sienkiewicz v Greif (UK) Ltd; Knowsley MBC v Willmore [2011] UKSC 10
24 May 2011On 9 March 2011, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the joint appeal of Sienkiewicz v Grief (UK)…
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Case Comment: R (Adams) v Secretary of State for Justice [2011] UKSC18
23 May 2011When is a wrongful conviction not a miscarriage of justice? This was the riddle that recently occupied a nine-judge panel…
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Case Comment: WL (Congo) & KM (Jamaica) [2011] UKSC 12
08 Apr 2011The long awaited judgment of the nine member panel in the case previously referred to as WL (Congo) and KM…
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Case Comment: Jones v Kaney [2011] UKSC 13
30 Mar 2011Although Jones v Kaney will be remembered as the case that abolished the immunity from suit of expert witnesses (at…
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Case Comment: Hounslow LBC v Powell; Leeds CC v Hall; Birmingham CC v Frisby [2011] UKSC 8
01 Mar 2011This decision is the long awaited sequel to Manchester CC v Pinnock [2010] UKSC 45, [2010] 3 WLR 1441 (case…
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Case Comment: Global Process Systems Inc & Anor v Syarikat Takaful Malaysia Berhad [2011] UKSC 5
23 Feb 2011As we reported in our case preview, at issue in Global Process Systems is the meaning of “inherent vice”, which…
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Case Comment: Brent LBC & Ors v Risk Management Partners Ltd [2011] UKSC 7
16 Feb 2011Court of Appeal decision overturned in first procurement case to reach Supreme Court. On 9 February 2011, the Supreme Court…