Results: 30

• R (FDA) v Minister for the Cabinet Office

  05 Jul 2024 [2024] EWHC 1729 (Admin); [2025] KB 269; [2025] 2 WLR 107; [2024] WLR(D) 316, KBD (Chamberlain J)

  CROWN — Minister — Civil Service Code
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  CROWN — Minister — Civil Service Code — Government having policy that certain migrants to be removed to Rwanda — Guidance issued to civil servants about obligations under Civil Service Code in “guidance scenario” where European Court of Human Rights indicating that individual not to be removed to Rwanda pending final determination of legal procedure but minister nonetheless deciding to proceed with removal — Whether ministers obliged to comply with indication of European court — Proper construction of relevant domestic legislation — Constitutional role and duties of civil servants — Meaning and effect of Civil Service Code in guidance scenario — Whether guidance accurately stating effect of code — Safety of Rwanda (Immigration and Asylum) Act 2024 (c 8), s 5 — Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, art 34

  CROWN — Minister — Civil Service Code — Cabinet Office guidance stating civil servants obliged to implement any ministerial decision to remove individual to Rwanda in breach of indication of European Court of Human Rights — Whether such removal decision in breach of international and/or domestic law — Whether civil servants obliged to refuse to implement ministerial instruction if in breach of international law — Whether guidance accurately stating effect of Civil Service Code — Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (c 25), s 5(1) — Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 (c 8), s 5 — Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1953) (Cmnd 8969), art 34

  6 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 International Agreement considered

• R v Smith (Joshua)

  13 Sep 2024 [2024] EWCA Crim 1040; [2025] KB 415; [2025] 2 WLR 215; [2025] 3 All ER 380; [2025] 1 Cr App R 5; [2024] WLR(D) 414, CA (Holroyde LJ, Griffiths J, Judge Dean KC)

  NUISANCE — Public nuisance — Statutory offence

  NUISANCE — Public nuisance — Elements of offence
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  NUISANCE — Public nuisance — Statutory offence — Defendant protestors entering race track at Silverstone and disrupting British Grand Prix — Defendants charged with causing public nuisance — Whether defendants creating risk of serious harm to “section of the public” — Meaning of “section of the public” — Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c 32), s 78

  NUISANCE — Public nuisance — Elements of offence — Defendants trespassing on race track during Formula 1 motor race — Whether case law on common law offence of public nuisance relevant to statutory offence — Whether defendants creating risk of serious harm to “section of the public” — Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c 32), s 78

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Burton v Ministry of Justice

  21 Jun 2024 [2024] EWCA Civ 681; [2025] KB 66; [2024] 3 WLR 728; [2025] 3 All ER 147; [2024] WLR(D) 284, CA (Asplin, Arnold, Phillips LJJ)

  EXECUTION — Warrant of control — Breach of statutory procedure
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  EXECUTION — Warrant of control — Breach of statutory procedure — Ministry of Justice engaging enforcement agent to execute warrant on debtor to enforce fine for speeding offence — Agent attaching clamp to debtor’s vehicle in breach of statutory procedure — Debtor seeking removal of clamp and award of general and special damages for losses incurred from breach of procedure — Whether creditor having to have caused or contributed loss — Whether court having power to order creditor to pay damages for losses suffered by debtor — Whether debtor entitled to general and special damages — Tribunals Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c 15), Sch 12, paras 66(5)(b), (6)(a)(b), (8)(a)

  EXECUTION — Warrant of control — Breach of statutory procedure — Creditor engaging enforcement agent to execute warrant of control for purposes of enforcing debt — Enforcement agent breaching statutory procedure by taking control of hire-purchase vehicle used by but not belonging to debtor — Whether court empowered to order creditor to pay damages to debtor for losses thereby suffered — Whether necessary for creditor to have caused or contributed to loss — Whether debtor entitled to general and special damages — Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c 15), Sch 12, para 66

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Arrbab v Revenue and Customs Comrs

  13 Dec 2021 [2021] UKUT 328 (AAC), UT

  19 Jan 2024 [2024] EWCA Civ 16; [2025] KB 1; [2024] 3 WLR 295; [2024] WLR(D) 46, CA (Baker, Snowden, Falk LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  REVENUE — Tax credits — Appeal
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  REVENUE — Tax credits — Appeal — Statutory instrument amending statute so as to exclude right of appeal against revenue’s decision if no review of decision carried out — Whether review “carried out” if application for review dismissed as being out of time and extension of time refused — Whether statutory instrument ultra vires enabling provision — Tax Credits Act 2002 (c 21), ss 21A, 21B, 38(1A) — Finance Act 2008 (c 9), s 124 — Tax Credits, Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance Reviews and Appeals Order 2014 (SI 2014/886), art 2

  6 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Prospect v Evans

  20 Jun 2024 [2024] EWHC 1533 (KB); [2025] KB 127; [2024] 3 WLR 891; [2025] ICR 1; [2025] 2 All ER 729; [2024] IRLR 825; [2025] IRLR 505; [2024] WLR(D) 276, KBD (Steyn J)

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  DEFAMATION — Parties — Trade union
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  DEFAMATION — Parties — Trade union — Trade union bringing defamation claim against former member — Defendant applying to strike out claim on basis that trade union not having right to sue in defamation — Whether trade union not being body corporate entitled to sue in defamation — Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c 52), s 10(1)(2)

  DEFAMATION — Parties — Trade union — Union bringing defamation claim — Whether union entitled to bring defamation claim in its own name — Whether challenge to union’s standing to be made by seeking declaration or striking out of claim — Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c 52), s 10 — CPR r 3.4(2)(a), Pt 11

  DEFAMATION — Parties — Trade union — Union bringing defamation claim — Whether union entitled to bring defamation claim in its own name — Whether challenge to union’s standing to be made by applying for declaration or striking out of claim — Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c 52), s 10 — CPR r 3.4(2)(a), Pt 11

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• ASY v Home Office

  30 Jan 2023 [2023] EWHC 196 (KB), KBD (May J)

  18 Apr 2024 [2024] EWCA Civ 373; [2025] KB 87; [2024] 3 WLR 766; [2024] WLR(D) 285, CA (Bean, Fraser LJJ, Sir Nicholas Patten)

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  IMMIGRATION — Leave to remain — Conditions

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Inhuman or degrading treatment — State’s duty to prevent
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  IMMIGRATION — Leave to remain — Conditions

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Inhuman or degrading treatment — State’s duty to prevent — Secretary of State granting claimants limited leave to remain in United Kingdom subject to condition claimants having no recourse to public funds — Whether Secretary of State under “systems duty” to put in place measures to protect claimants from falling into destitution such as to amount to inhuman or degrading treatment — Whether claimants entitled to damages for breach of such duty — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 8, Sch 1, Pt I, art 3

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• MTA v Lord Chancellor (MTA v Comr of Police of the Metropolis)

  25 Jan 2023 [2023] EWHC 117 (KB); [2023] 1 WLR 2197; [2023] WLR(D) 191, KBD (Freedman J)

  13 Aug 2024 [2024] EWCA Civ 965; [2025] KB 151; [2024] 3 WLR 1037; [2025] 3 All ER 246; [2024] WLR(D) 380, CA (Underhill, Lewison, Dingemans LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  HUMAN RIGHTS — Breach of Convention rights — Judicial act
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  HUMAN RIGHTS — Breach of Convention rights — Judicial act — Claimant bringing claim against Lord Chancellor seeking damages on ground court orders breaching Convention rights — Whether abuse of process to bring claim for damages instead of appealing underlying orders — Whether claim to be struck out — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), ss 6, 7, 9, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 5, 6

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Breach of Convention rights — Judicial act — Claimant bringing claim against Lord Chancellor seeking damages on ground court orders breaching Convention rights — Whether abuse of process to bring claim for damages instead of appealing underlying orders — Whether claim to be struck out — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), ss 7, 9, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 5, 6

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Prismall v Google UK Ltd

  [2023] EWHC 1169 (KB); [2024] 1 WLR 879

  19 May 2023 [2023] EWHC 1169 (KB); [2024] 1 WLR 879; [2023] WLR(D) 242, KBD (Heather Williams J)

  11 Dec 2024 [2024] EWCA Civ 1516; [2025] KB 663; [2025] 2 WLR 1224; [2024] WLR(D) 552, CA (Dame Victoria Sharp P, Nicola Davies, Dingemans LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION — Misuse of private information — Reasonable expectation of privacy
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  CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION — Misuse of private information — Reasonable expectation of privacy — Representative claim on behalf of large number of patients seeking damages for misuse of private information — Whether all members of claimant class having “same interest” so as to permit representative claim — Whether all members of claimant class having reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of relevant information — CPR r 19.8(1)

  CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION — Misuse of private information — Reasonable expectation of privacy — Representative claim on behalf of large number of patients seeking damages for misuse of private information — Whether all members of claimant class having realistic prospect of establishing reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of relevant information — Whether all members having “same interest” in claim — CPR r 19.8(1)

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• R (Sneddon) v Secretary of State for Justice

  21 Dec 2023 [2023] EWHC 3303 (Admin); [2024] 1 WLR 1894; [2024] WLR(D) 7, KBD (Fordham J)

  28 Oct 2024 [2024] EWCA Civ 1258; [2025] KB 245; [2025] 2 WLR 300; [2025] 3 All ER 763; [2024] WLR(D) 459, CA (Lady Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill CJ, Dame Victoria Sharp P, William Davis LJ)

  25 Feb 2025 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court refused [2025] 1 WLR 1458; UKSC/2024/1007, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Sales, Lord Stephens JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 3 neutral; most recently considered: 2025. Subsequent citations: 20.
  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Parole Board recommendation

  PRACTICE — Judgment — Redaction

  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Transfer to open conditions
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  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Parole Board recommendation — Parole Board recommending indeterminate prisoner’s transfer to open conditions — Secretary of State rejecting Parole Board’s recommendation — Whether Secretary of State’s decision unlawful for lack of reasonable basis

  PRACTICE — Judgment — Redaction — Judgment in judicial review proceedings — Whether names of junior civil servants to be redacted

  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Transfer to open conditions — Secretary of State rejecting Parole Board’s recommendation to transfer indeterminate sentence prisoner to open conditions — Whether Secretary of State’s decision unlawful — Prison Act 1952 (15 & 16 Geo 6 & 1 Eliz 2, c 52), s 12(2) — Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c 44), s 239(2)

  12 Case(s) considered

  4 Statutes considered

• Iqbal v Geo TV Ltd

  27 Nov 2023 [2023] EWHC 3024 (KB), KBD (Judge Lewis)

  13 Dec 2024 [2024] EWCA Civ 1566; [2025] KB 357; [2025] 2 WLR 663; [2024] WLR(D) 564, CA (Underhill, Dingemans, Warby LJJ)

  04 Apr 2025 (appn dis) [2025] 1 WLR 1750; UKSC/2025/0011, SC(E) (Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Leggatt, Lord Stephens JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  DEFAMATION — Privilege — Qualified
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  DEFAMATION — Privilege — Qualified

  DEFAMATION — Privilege — Qualified — Claimant bringing libel claim over television broadcasts of political meeting — Defendant asserting broadcasts protected by qualified privilege as fair and accurate reports of proceedings at public meeting — Proper approach to consideration of such privilege — Whether broadcasts “fair and accurate” “reports” of “proceedings” at “public meeting” — Whether matter published “not of public interest” — Whether publication of such matter “not for the public benefit” — Whether publication made with “malice” — Defamation Act 1996 (c 31), s 15, Sch 1, para 12

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered