Results: 99

• R v J

  20 Dec 2002 [2002] EWCA Crim 2983; [2003] 1 WLR 1590; [2003] 1 All ER 518; [2003] 2 Cr App R 134, CA

  14 Oct 2004 [2004] UKHL 42; [2005] 1 AC 562; [2004] 3 WLR 1019; [2005] 1 All ER 1; [2005] 1 Cr App R 277, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative; most recently considered: 2024. Subsequent citations: 30.
  CRIME — Sexual offences — Indecent assault
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  CRIME — Sexual offences — Indecent assault — Abuse of process — Defendant charged with indecent assault — Charges based on acts amounting to unlawful sexual intercourse — Time limit for prosecuting unlawful sexual intercourse expired — Whether charges of indecent assault precluded — Sexual Offences Act 1956, ss 6(1), 14(1), Sch 2, para 10(a)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

• McCabe v Cornwall County Council

  19 Dec 2002 [2002] EWCA Civ 1887; [2003] ICR 501, CA

  15 Jul 2004 [2004] UKHL 35; [2005] 1 AC 503; [2004] 3 WLR 322; [2004] ICR 1064; [2004] 3 All ER 991, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 54.
  EMPLOYMENT — Contract of employment — Implied term
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  EMPLOYMENT — Contract of employment — Implied term — Employee prior to dismissal subjected to conduct by employer in breach of duty to act fairly — Compensation awarded for unfair dismissal — Subsequent claim for damages in relation to illness caused by employer's conduct prior to dismissal — Whether claim sustainable

  4 Case(s) considered
• Gregg v Scott

  27 Jan 2005 [2005] UKHL 2; [2005] 2 AC 176; [2005] 2 WLR 268; [2005] 4 All ER 812, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 107.
  MEDICAL PRACTITIONER — Negligence — Causation
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  MEDICAL PRACTITIONER — Negligence — Causation — Failure to diagnose illness — Delay of nine months in commencing treatment for cancer — Probability that patient not surviving ten years even if diagnosis made promptly — Patient's statistical chance of ten-year survival falling further during period of delay — Whether damages to be awarded for reduction in chance of survival

  4 Case(s) considered
• R (Mullen) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

  21 Feb 2002 [2002] EWHC 230 (Admin); [2002] 1 WLR 1857; [2002] 3 All ER 293, DC

  20 Dec 2002 [2002] EWCA Civ 1882; [2003] QB 993; [2003] 2 WLR 835; [2003] 1 All ER 613, CA

  29 Apr 2004 [2004] UKHL 18; [2005] 1 AC 1; [2004] 2 WLR 1140; [2004] 3 All ER 65, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 59.
  CRIME — Miscarriage of justice — Statutory compensation
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  CRIME — Miscarriage of justice — Statutory compensation — Court of Appeal quashing claimant's conviction on ground of abuse of process — No complaint by claimant as to correctness of guilty verdict — Claimant seeking compensation — Whether “miscarriage of justice” — Whether claimant entitled to statutory or ex gratia compensation — Criminal Justice Act 1988, s 133 — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 6(2) — International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1977), art 14(6)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  5 Statutes considered

  2 International Agreements considered
• Cream Holdings Ltd v Banerjee

  13 Feb 2003 [2003] EWCA Civ 103; [2003] Ch 650; [2003] 3 WLR 999; [2003] 2 All ER 318, CA

  14 Oct 2004 [2004] UKHL 44; [2005] 1 AC 253; [2004] 3 WLR 918; [2004] 4 All ER 617, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 6 positive; 2 negative; most recently considered: 2023. Subsequent citations: 231.
  CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION — Breach of confidence — Injunction
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  CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION — Breach of confidence — Injunction — Claimants seeking interim injunction to restrain publication of confidential information supplied by former employee — Whether claimants “likely” to establish that publication should not be allowed — Whether interim injunction to be granted — Human Rights Act 1998, s 12(3)

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• N v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Terrence Higgins Trust intervening)

  16 Oct 2003 [2003] EWCA Civ 1369; [2004] 1 WLR 1182, CA

  21 Jun 2004 (pet all) [2004] 1 WLR 1873, HL(E)

  05 May 2005 [2005] UKHL 31; [2005] 2 AC 296; [2005] 2 WLR 1124; [2005] 4 All ER 1017, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 144.
  IMMIGRATION — Asylum — Inhuman or degrading treatment
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  IMMIGRATION — Asylum — Inhuman or degrading treatment — Seriously ill illegal immigrant receiving beneficial medical treatment in United Kingdom for five years — Application for asylum refused — Planned removal to country with inferior medical resources where life expectancy would be drastically reduced — Whether inhuman and degrading treatment — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 3

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• MacWilliam (JI) Co Inc v Mediterranean Shipping Co SA (The Rafaela S)

  17 Apr 2002 [2002] EWHC 593 (Comm); [2003] 2 All ER (Comm) 219; [2002] 2 Lloyd's Rep 403; [2002] CLC 1043, QBD (Langley J )

  16 Apr 2003 [2003] EWCA Civ 556; [2004] QB 702; [2004] 2 WLR 283; [2003] 3 All ER 369; [2003] 2 Lloyd's Rep 113; [2003] 2 CLC 94; The Times, 5 May 2003, CA (Peter Gibson, Rix LJJ and Jacob J)

  16 Feb 2005 [2005] UKHL 11; [2005] 2 AC 423; [2005] 2 WLR 554; [2005] 2 All ER 86; [2005] 1 All ER (Comm) 393; [2005] 1 Lloyd's Rep 347; [2005] 1 CLC 172; The Times, 21 February 2005, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 16.
  SHIPPING — Limitation of liability — Carrier's liability
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  SHIPPING — Limitation of liability — Carrier's liability — Straight bill of lading — Whether Hague Rules applying — Whether “bill of lading or any similar document of title” — Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971, s 1(4), Sch 1, art I(b)

  SHIPPING — Limitation of liability — Carrier's liability — Straight consigned bill of lading issued in respect of carriage of goods from Durban to Felixstowe — Final destination of Boston — Goods transshipped at Felixstowe — No bill of lading issued for Felixstowe to Boston leg — Cargo damaged during voyage to Boston — Whether straight bill “bill of lading or any similar document of title” — Whether shipment covered by one or two contracts of carriage — Whether “port of shipment” in United Kingdom — Whether Hague Rules applying — Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971 (c 19), s. 1(3)(4), Sch. 1, art I(b)

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• R v Z (Evidence: confession) (R v Hasan)

  27 Feb 2003 [2003] EWCA Crim 191; [2003] 1 WLR 1489; [2003] 2 Cr App R 173, CA

  17 Mar 2005 [2005] UKHL 22; [2005] 2 AC 467; [2005] 2 WLR 709; [2005] 4 All ER 685; [2005] 2 Cr App R 314, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 35.
  CRIME — Duress — Voluntary association

  CRIME — Evidence — Confession
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  CRIME — Duress — Voluntary association — Defendant associating with known criminal — Defendant committing aggravated burglary — Whether defence of duress available

  CRIME — Evidence — Confession — Admissibility — Off the record statement thought to be exculpatory when made — Inconsistencies between statement and defendant's case at trial — Prosecution seeking to cross-examine on contents of statement — Whether statement adverse to defendant — Whether “confession” — Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, s 82(1)

  8 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• D v East Berkshire Community Health NHS Trust (MAK v Dewsbury Healthcare NHS Trust, RK v Oldham NHS Trust)

  06 Sep 2002 [2003] Lloyd's Rep Med 9, QBD (Judge Hale)

  31 Jul 2003 [2003] EWCA Civ 1151; [2004] QB 558; [2004] 2 WLR 58; [2003] 4 All ER 796; [2003] 2 FLR 1166; [2003] 3 FCR 1; The Times, 22 August 2003; The Independent, 1 October 2003, CA (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers MR, Hale and Latham LJJ)

  22 Apr 2004 (pet all) [2004] 1 WLR 1285, HL(E)

  21 Apr 2005 [2005] UKHL 23; [2005] 2 AC 373; [2005] 2 WLR 993; [2005] 2 All ER 443; [2005] 2 FLR 284; [2005] 2 FCR 81; (2005) 155 NLJ 654; The Independent, 27 April 2005; The Times, 22 April 2005, HL(E) (Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Steyn, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry and Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 5 neutral. Subsequent citations: 125.
  CHILDREN — Child abuse — Mistaken diagnosis of child abuse

  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Parents suspected of child abuse
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  CHILDREN — Child abuse — Mistaken diagnosis of child abuse — Parents claiming damages for psychiatric injury caused by false allegations — Whether duty of care owed by healthcare professionals to parents or children — Whether determination of existence of duty of care as preliminary issue infringing claimants' right to fair trial — Whether actionable breach of other human rights — Children Act 1989, s 1 — Human Rights Act 1998, ss 2, 6, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 3, 6, 8

  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Parents suspected of child abuse — Healthcare professionals and social workers mistakenly diagnosing and investigating child abuse by parents — Parents claiming damages for resulting psychiatric injury — Whether duty of care owed by healthcare professionals or social workers to parents

  12 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• R (Bagdanavicius) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

  11 Nov 2003 [2003] EWCA Civ 1605; [2004] 1 WLR 1207, CA

  21 Jul 2004 (pet all) [2005] UKHL 38; [2005] 2 AC 668; [2004] 1 WLR 2449; [2005] 2 WLR 1359; [2005] 4 All ER 263, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 96.
  IMMIGRATION — Asylum — Inhuman or degrading treatment
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  IMMIGRATION — Asylum — Inhuman or degrading treatment — Lithuanian family claiming risk of inhuman or degrading treatment from non-state actors if returned to Lithuania — Secretary of State certifying claims as clearly unfounded — Whether real risk of ill-treatment from non-state agents sufficient to avoid expulsion — Whether additional requirement to show insufficiency of state protection — Human Rights Act 1998 Sch 1, Pt I, art 3 — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, s 115

  10 Case(s) considered

  4 Statutes considered