Results: 80

• R v Forsyth (R v Mabey)

  23 Feb 2011 [2011] UKSC 9; [2011] 2 AC 69; [2011] 2 WLR 277; [2011] 2 All ER 165; [2011] WLR (D) 52; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Hope of Craighead DPSC, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  CROWN — Order in Council — Validity

  STATUTE — Construction — Hansard
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  CROWN — Order in Council — Validity — Statute conferring power on executive to make Orders in Council giving effect to United Nations Security Council Resolutions including creating criminal offences — Absence in statute of identifiable time limit for exercise of power — Security Council Resolution prohibiting making funds available to Government of Iraq — Order in Council making prohibited action criminal offence enacted ten years later — Whether recourse to parliamentary material surrounding passage of statute permissible to ascertain parliamentary intention as to temporal limits of power — Whether power to be exercised only at or about same time as relevant Security Council Resolution — Whether Order ultra vires enabling statute by reason of delay — United Nations Act 1946, s 1(1) — Iraq (United Nations Sanctions) Order 2000, arts 3(a), 11(4)

  STATUTE — Construction — Hansard — Statute conferring power on executive to make Orders in Council giving effect to United Nations Security Council Resolutions including creating criminal offences — Absence in statute of identifiable time limit for exercise of power — Whether recourse to parliamentary material surrounding passage of statute permissible to ascertain parliamentary intention as to temporal limits of power

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• R v Chaytor (R v Devine, R v Morley)

  30 Jul 2010 [2010] EWCA Crim 1910; [2010] 2 Cr App R 394; [2010] WLR (D) 214 {0} {1}, CA

  01 Dec 2010 [2010] UKSC 52; [2011] 1 AC 684; [2010] 3 WLR 1707; [2011] 1 All ER 805; [2011] 1 Cr App R 274; [2010] WLR (D) 311; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral; most recently considered: 2025. Subsequent citations: 25.
  PARLIAMENT — Privilege — Proceedings in Parliament
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  PARLIAMENT — Privilege — Proceedings in Parliament — Members of Parliament submitting claim forms for expenses and allowances under scheme established by House of Commons — Criminal proceedings against members for false accounting in respect of claims — Whether submission of claims “proceedings in Parliament” — Whether claims within exclusive cognisance of Parliament — Whether privilege precluding criminal proceedings — Bill of Rights 1689, art 9

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Jones v Kaney

  21 Jan 2010 [2010] EWHC 61 (QB); [2010] 2 All ER 649, QBD

  30 Mar 2011 [2011] UKSC 13; [2011] 2 AC 398; [2011] 2 WLR 823; [2011] 2 All ER 671; [2011] 2 FLR 312; [2011] WLR (D) 109; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Phillips PSC, Lord Hope DPSC, Lady Hale JSC, Lord Brown JSC, Lord Collins JSC, Lord Kerr JSC, Lord Dyson JSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 47.
  EVIDENCE — Expert evidence — Immunity from suit
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  EVIDENCE — Expert evidence — Immunity from suit — Joint statement agreed by parties' experts for purposes of personal injury litigation — Claimant settling action disadvantageously after own expert revising earlier opinion — Claimant bringing action for negligence against expert — Whether expert immune from suit for breach of duty in relation to participation in legal proceedings — Whether claim to be struck out

  11 Case(s) considered
• NML Capital Ltd v Republic of Argentina

  29 Jan 2009 [2009] EWHC 110 (Comm); [2009] QB 579; [2009] 2 WLR 1332; [2009] 1 All ER (Comm) 697; [2009] 1 Lloyd's Rep 378, QBD

  04 Feb 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 41; [2011] QB 8; [2010] 3 WLR 874; [2010] 2 All ER (Comm) 1206; [2010] 2 Lloyd's Rep 442; [2010] WLR (D) 28, CA

  06 Jul 2011 [2011] UKSC 31; [2011] 2 AC 495; [2011] 3 WLR 273; [2011] 4 All ER 1191; [2012] 1 All ER (Comm) 1081; [2011] 2 Lloyd's Rep 628; [2011] WLR (D) 220; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 5 positive; 2 neutral; 2 negative; most recently considered: 2024. Subsequent citations: 85.
  INTERNATIONAL LAW — State immunity — Foreign judgment

  PRACTICE — Claim form — Service out of jurisdiction
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  INTERNATIONAL LAW — State immunity — Foreign judgment — Claimant obtaining New York judgment against foreign state in respect of default on bonds — Claimant bringing claim in England for enforcement of New York judgment — Whether proceedings in England “relating to … a commercial transaction” — Statutory provision allowing for recognition of judgment of foreign court where court would have had jurisdiction on basis of rules applicable in United Kingdom — Whether provision jurisdictional — Whether applicable only if statutory exception to state immunity applying — Whether terms of bond amounting to submission to English jurisdiction — State Immunity Act 1978, ss 1, 2, 3(1) — Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, s 31(1)

  PRACTICE — Claim form — Service out of jurisdiction — Claimant seeking to serve proceedings on foreign state — Claimant pleading state not immune from suit — Basis of contention legally flawed — Whether procedural error capable of remedy — Whether discretion to permit claimant to argue new bases for jurisdiction — CPR rr 3.10, 6.20(9)

  10 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• R (Coke-Wallis) v Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

  19 Jan 2011 [2011] UKSC 1; [2011] 2 AC 146; [2011] 2 WLR 103; [2011] ICR 224; [2011] 2 All ER 1; [2011] WLR (D) 3; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 2 negative; most recently considered: 2025. Subsequent citations: 37.
  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Cause of action estoppel
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  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Cause of action estoppel — Successive disciplinary complaints by regulatory body against accountant — First complaint dismissed — Whether final determination on merits — Accountant contending second complaint same as first — Whether autrefois acquit or res judicata applying — Whether cause of action estoppel applying to disciplinary proceedings — Whether second complaint barred

  4 Case(s) considered
• R (Child Poverty Action Group) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

  27 Feb 2009 [2009] EWHC 341 (Admin); [2009] 3 All ER 633, QBD (Michael Supperstone QC sitting as a deputy High Court judge)

  14 Oct 2009 [2009] EWCA Civ 1058; [2010] 1 WLR 1886; [2010] PTSR 958; [2010] 2 All ER 113; [2009] WLR (D) 296, CA (Sedley, Lloyd, Wilson LJJ)

  08 Dec 2010 [2010] UKSC 54; [2011] 2 AC 15; [2011] 2 WLR 1; [2011] PTSR 185; [2011] 1 All ER 729; [2010] WLR (D) 322; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers PSC, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Dyson JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 2 negative; most recently considered: 2025. Subsequent citations: 51.
  SOCIAL SECURITY — Overpayment of benefit — Recovery
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  SOCIAL SECURITY — Overpayment of benefit — Recovery — Statutory right of recovery limited to misrepresentation or non-disclosure — Whether Secretary of State entitled at common law to recover benefits paid by mistake under erroneous award — Social Security Administration Act 1992, s 71(1)

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Joseph v Spiller

  22 May 2009 [2009] EWHC 1152 (QB), QBD (Eady J)

  22 Oct 2009 [2009] EWCA Civ 1075; [2010] ICR 642; [2009] WLR (D) 306, CA

  01 Dec 2010 (Associated Newspapers Ltd intervening) [2010] UKSC 53; [2011] 1 AC 852; [2010] 3 WLR 1791; [2011] ICR 1; [2011] 1 All ER 947; [2010] WLR (D) 310; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 70.
  EMPLOYMENT — Contract of employment — Illegality

  DEFAMATION — Fair comment — Test of fairness
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  EMPLOYMENT — Contract of employment — Illegality — Work-seeker entering into online agreement with entertainment agency— Agreement referring work-seeker to separate document containing terms and conditions of hire— Work-seeker directly re-engaged by hirer in breach of hire condition— Agency publishing statement on website alleging claimants untrustworthy— Whether condition unenforceable by reason of breach of statutory requirement for terms of work-seeker’s agreement in single document— Whether statement fair comment— Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/3319), reg 14(2)

  DEFAMATION — Fair comment — Test of fairness — Posting on defendants’ website stating claimants in breach of contract and warning of their liability to break contracts— No particulars of alleged breach given— Whether defendants entitled to rely on alleged breach to support comment— Whether defence of fair comment requiring sufficient detail in statement to allow reader to judge if comment well founded— Defence to be renamed “honest comment”

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• R (Smith) v Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner (R (Secretary of State for Defence) v Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner)

  11 Apr 2008 [2008] EWHC 694 (Admin); [2011] 1 AC 1; [2008] 3 WLR 1284; [2008] ACD 45; The Times, 30 May 2008, QBD (Collins J)

  18 May 2009 (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) [2009] EWCA Civ 441; [2011] 1 AC 1; [2009] 3 WLR 1099; [2009] 4 All ER 985; [2009] WLR (D) 158; [2009] ACD 54; (2009) 159 NLJ 790; The Times, 20 May 2009, CA (Sir Anthony Clarke MR, Keene, Dyson LJJ)

  30 Jun 2010 [2010] UKSC 29; [2011] 1 AC 1; [2010] 3 WLR 223; [2010] 3 All ER 1067; [2010] HRLR 28; [2010] WLR (D) 165; (2010) 160 NLJ 973; The Times, 8 July 2010; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers PSC, Lord Hope of Craighead DPSC, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Mance, Lord Collins of Mapesbury, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 2 neutral; 1 negative; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 89.
  CORONER — Inquest — Verdict

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Coroners Rules

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Inquest

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Life — State's duty to investigate death
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  CORONER — Inquest — Verdict — Soldier dying of hyperthermia while on duty in Iraq — Coroner's narrative verdict stating death caused by serious failure to address deceased's difficulty in adjusting to climate — Whether breaching prohibition against determining questions of civil liability — Coroners Rules 1984, r 42(b)

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Coroners Rules — Inquest required to comply with procedural requirements implicit in Convention right to life — Whether necessary to change rules prohibiting address on facts or determination of question of civil liability

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Inquest — Whether desirable for statute to set out clearly differences between inquest required to comply with procedural requirements implicit in Convention right to life and any other type of inquest

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Life — State's duty to investigate death — Soldier dying of hyperthermia sustained while carrying out duties off base in Iraq — Whether death of soldier within scope of Human Rights Convention or of legislation giving domestic effect to Convention — Whether procedural requirements implicit in Convention right to life applying to inquest into soldier's death — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 2 — Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1953), art 1

  24 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

  1 International Agreement considered

• Sienkiewicz v Greif (UK) Ltd (Willmore v Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council)

  06 Nov 2009 [2009] EWCA Civ 1159; [2010] QB 370; [2010] 2 WLR 951; [2009] WLR (D) 321; The Times, 13 November 2009, CA (Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony JSC, Scott Baker, Smith LJJ)

  09 Mar 2011 [2011] UKSC 10; [2011] 2 AC 229; [2011] 2 WLR 523; [2011] ICR 391; [2011] 2 All ER 857; (2011) 119 BMLR 54; [2011] PIQR P11; [2011] WLR (D) 77; The Times, 10 March 2011; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers PSC, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Mance, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Lord Dyson JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 71.
  NEGLIGENCE — Causation — Asbestos exposure
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  NEGLIGENCE — Causation — Asbestos exposure — Deceased developing mesothelioma after tortious occupational and non-tortious environmental exposure to asbestos dust — Whether necessary to establish occupational exposure more than doubling risk of contracting disease — Whether sufficient to show occupational exposure material contribution to risk of developing disease — Appropriate test of causation — Compensation Act 2006, s 3

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Tower MCashback LLP 1 v Revenue and Customs Comrs

  13 Oct 2008 [2008] EWHC 2387 (Ch); [2008] STC 3366, Ch D

  02 Feb 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 32; [2010] STC 809, CA

  11 May 2011 [2011] UKSC 19; [2011] 2 AC 457; [2011] 2 WLR 1131; [2011] 3 All ER 171; [2011] STC 1143; [2011] WLR (D) 154; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 2 neutral; most recently considered: 2023. Subsequent citations: 111.
  REVENUE — Corporation tax — Capital allowances

  REVENUE — Corporation tax — Self assessment
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  REVENUE — Corporation tax — Capital allowances — Transactions carried out to obtain fiscal advantage — Limited liability partnership entering into software licence agreements — Consideration for licences partially funded by non-recourse loans to members of partnership — Loans provided by software vendor through series of circular transactions — Whether loans expended on acquisition of software rights — Whether partnership entitled to first-year allowances — Capital Allowances Act 2001, s 45 (as amended by Finance Act 2003, ss 165, 166)

  REVENUE — Corporation tax — Self assessment — Closure notice issued disallowing claim — Taxpayer appealing — Revenue raising issues not mentioned in closure notice — Whether revenue only able to rely on issues raised in closure notice — Taxes Management Act 1970 (as amended by Finance Act 1994, ss 184, 185, 186, 189, 196, 199, Sch 19, General and Special Commissioners (Amendment of Enactments) Regulations 1994, reg 2, Schs 1, 2, Finance Act 1995, s 104, Finance Act 1996, s 123, Finance Act 1998, s 117(3), Sch 19 and Finance Act 2001, ss 88, 110, Schs 29, 33), ss 12AA, 12AB, 12AC, 28B, 31, 31A, 50

  7 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered