Results: 90

• Myers v The Queen (Cox v The Queen, Brangman v The Queen)

  06 Oct 2015 [2015] UKPC 40; [2016] AC 314; [2015] 3 WLR 1145; [2016] 1 Cr App R 11; [2015] WLR (D) 401; Case details; Case details; Case details, PC (Lord Kerr, Lord Wilson, Lord Hughes, Lord Toulson, Lord Hodge)

  Subsequent citations: 16.
  CRIME — Evidence — Admissibility
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  CRIME — Evidence — Admissibility — Gang evidence — Defendant alleged to be gunman in apparently motiveless shooting — Prosecution claiming shooting result of inter-gang feud — Police officer in unit targeting criminal gangs called by prosecution as expert witness — Officer identifying defendant and victim as members of rival gangs and testifying that shooting bearing hallmarks of gang-related revenge attack — Whether impermissible bad character evidence — Whether officer properly allowed as expert witness — Whether evidence properly admitted to prove motive

  2 Case(s) considered
• Hotak v Southwark London Borough Council

  15 May 2013 [2013] EWCA Civ 515; [2013] PTSR 1338; [2013] LGR 781; [2013] HLR 32; [2013] WLR (D) 180; The Times, 4 July 2013; [2013] BLGR 781, CA (Moore-Bick, Richards, Pitchford LJJ)

  07 Apr 2014 (appn all) [2014] PTSR 757, SC(E)

  13 May 2015 (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) [2015] UKSC 30; [2016] AC 811; [2015] 2 WLR 1341; [2015] PTSR 1189; [2015] 3 All ER 1053; [2015] HLR 23; [2015] WLR (D) 224; The Times, 25 May 2015; Case details; [2015] BLGR 530, SC(E) (Lord Neuberger PSC, Lady Hale DPSC, Lord Clarke, Lord Wilson, Lord Hughes JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 11 positive; 2 neutral; 1 negative; most recently considered: 2024. Subsequent citations: 149.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Homeless persons — Priority need
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Homeless persons — Priority need — Applicant with learning and other difficulties living with and relying on brother — Applicant subsequently presenting as homeless — Local housing authority finding applicant not “vulnerable” and so not in priority need — Housing authority taking into account continuing assistance received from brother — Whether housing authority in assessing priority need entitled to consider third party personal support received by applicant — Housing Act 1996, s 189(1)(c)

  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Homeless persons — Priority need — Applicants with mental and physical health problems presenting as homeless — Local housing authority comparing applicants with ordinary homeless persons and finding them not “vulnerable” and so not in priority need — Housing authority taking into account continuing support received by certain applicants from family members — Whether housing authority using correct comparator — Whether housing authority in assessing priority need entitled to consider third party personal support received by applicant — Whether public sector equality duty adding to authority’s duty under homelessness legislation — Housing Act 1996, s 189(1)(c) — Equality Act 2010, ss 15, 149

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered

• R (Yam) v Central Criminal Court

  31 Oct 2014 [2014] EWHC 3558 (Admin); [2016] AC 771; [2015] 3 WLR 1050; [2015] 3 All ER 354; [2015] 1 Cr App R 114; [2015] ACD 26; [2014] CN 1877, DC

  29 May 2015 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given

  16 Dec 2015 [2015] UKSC 76; [2016] AC 771; [2016] 2 WLR 19; [2017] 1 All ER 462; [2016] 1 Cr App R 17; [2015] WLR (D) 526; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent citations: 10.
  CROWN COURT — Practice — Reporting restrictions

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Access to courts — European Court of Human Rights

  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Crown Court — Jurisdiction
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  CROWN COURT — Practice — Reporting restrictions — Order that evidence heard in camera not be published — Whether within statutory powers — Whether within inherent powers of court — Administration of Justice Act 1960, s 12(1)(c) — Contempt of Court Act 1981, ss 2(1), 11

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Access to courts — European Court of Human Rights — Order made by Crown Court that evidence heard in camera not to be published — Convicted person applying to European Court of Human Rights alleging that right to fair trial infringed — Judge refusing to vary order to permit disclosure to European court — Whether access to European court fundamental right — Whether absolute right — Whether any infringement of right of access proportionate — Whether exercise of judge’s discretion reviewable — Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1953), arts 34, 38

  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Crown Court — Jurisdiction — Order that evidence heard in camera not be published — Whether matter “relating to trial on indictment” — Whether order amenable to judicial review — Senior Courts Act 1981, s 29(3) (as amended by Civil Procedure (Modification of Supreme Court Act 1981) Order 2004, art 3(b))

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Access to courts — European Court of Human Rights — Order made by Crown Court that evidence heard in camera not to be published — Convicted person applying to European Court of Human Rights alleging that right to fair trial infringed — Judge refusing to vary order to permit disclosure to European court — Whether decision hindering effective exercise of convicted person’s right of application to European court — Whether for domestic or European court to order disclosure if appropriate — Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, arts 34, 38

  CROWN COURT — Practice — Reporting restrictions — Order made by Crown Court that evidence heard in camera not to be published — Convicted person applying to European Court of Human Rights alleging that right to fair trial infringed — Judge refusing to vary order to permit disclosure to European court — Whether judge properly exercising discretionary power — Whether decision breaching United Kingdom’s international obligations — Whether breaching domestic law — Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1953), arts 34, 38

  12 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  3 Statutes considered

  1 International Agreement considered
• R (King) v Secretary of State for Justice (R (Hussain) v Secretary of State for Justice (Howard League for Penal Reform intervening), R (Bourgass) v Secretary of State for Justice)

  13 Oct 2010 [2010] EWHC 2522 (Admin); [2011] 1 WLR 2667; [2011] 3 All ER 776; [2010] WLR (D) 258; [2011] ACD 13; The Times, 8 March 2011; [2010] UKHRR 1245, DC

  27 Mar 2012 [2012] EWCA Civ 376; [2012] 1 WLR 3602; [2012] 4 All ER 44; [2012] HRLR 17; [2012] WLR (D) 102; The Times, 27 June 2012, CA

  17 Mar 2014 (appn all) [2014] 1 WLR 1233, SC(E)

  29 Jul 2015 (Howard League for Penal Reform intervening) [2015] UKSC 54; [2016] AC 384; [2015] 3 WLR 457; [2016] 1 All ER 1033; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 2 neutral; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 59.
  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Disciplinary proceedings
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  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Disciplinary proceedings — Inmates in young offender institution or prison — Governor ordering segregation from other inmates — Segregation review board regularly considering period of detention — Whether right to association with other inmates “civil right” — Whether right to private and family life engaged — Whether hearings before governor and segregation review boards “determination” of civil rights — Whether breach of Convention right to fair trial before independent tribunal — Whether availability of judicial review securing compliance with Convention — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 6, 8

  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Disciplinary proceedings — Prisoners placed in segregation for reasons of good order and discipline following incidents with other prisoners — Prison Service Order issued by Secretary of State purporting to delegate his power to authorise segregation beyond 72 hours to prison governors or officers — Whether delegation lawful — Decisions to maintain segregation taken by prison governor or senior prison officer — Whether decisions and continued segregation lawful — Prison Act 1952 (as amended by Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c 33), s 6(2)). s 47(1) — Prison Rules 1999 (as amended by the Prison (Amendment) (No 2) Rules 2005 (SI 2005/3437), r 2, Sch 1, para 9). r 45

  17 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• In re J (A Child) (Reunite International Child Abduction Centre intervening) (Re J (A Child) (1996 Hague Convention) (Morocco))

  [2014] EWHC 3588 (Fam), Fam D (Wood J)

  01 Apr 2015 [2015] EWCA Civ 329; [2016] AC 1291; [2015] 3 WLR 747; [2015] 2 FLR 513; [2015] WLR (D) 201, CA (Moore-Bick, Black, Gloster LJJ)

  25 Nov 2015 [2015] UKSC 70; [2016] AC 1291; [2015] 3 WLR 1827; [2016] 4 All ER 1048; [2016] 1 FLR 170; [2015] WLR (D) 486; Case details, SC(E) (Lady Hale DPSC, Lord Wilson, Lord Reed, Lord Hughes, Lord Toulson JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral; most recently considered: 2024. Subsequent citations: 28.
  CHILDREN — Custody rights — Jurisdiction
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  CHILDREN — Custody rights — Jurisdiction — Child born in United Kingdom to Moroccan parents — Child living in Morocco with mother after divorce and subject to order to reside there Mother subsequently remarrying in United Kingdom and bringing child from Morocco — Father unsuccessfully applying to Moroccan court for residential custody — Father six months later issuing proceedings in United Kingdom for child’s return — Whether proceedings governed by international Convention or Council Regulation — Whether English court having jurisdiction under Convention to make return order — Whether criterion of urgency satisfied — Whether court able to exercise inherent jurisdiction — Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Cooperation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children (1996) (Cm 7727), arts 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 — Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003, art 61

  CHILDREN — Custody rights — Jurisdiction — Child born in United Kingdom to Moroccan parents — Child living in Morocco with mother after divorce and subject to order to reside there — Mother subsequently remarrying in United Kingdom and bringing child from Morocco — Father unsuccessfully applying to Moroccan court for residential custody — Father six months later issuing proceedings in United Kingdom for child’s return — Whether English court having jurisdiction under Convention to make return order — Whether criterion of urgency satisfied — Whether court able to exercise inherent jurisdiction — Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children (1996) (Cm 7727), arts 7, 11

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 International Agreement considered
• Federal Republic of Brazil v Durant International Corpn

  11 Apr 2013 [2013] JCA 71; 2013 (1) JLR 273; [2013] 1 JLR 273, CA (Jersey)

  03 Aug 2015 [2015] UKPC 35; [2016] AC 297; [2015] 3 WLR 599; [2016] 1 All ER (Comm) 722; [2015] 2 Lloyd's Rep 460; [2015] Lloyd's Rep FC 593; [2015] WTLR 1323; [2015] WLR (D) 358; 18 ITELR 334; Case details, PC (Lord Neuberger, Lord Mance, Lord Carnwath, Lord Toulson, Lord Hodge)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 14.
  TRUSTS — Constructive trust — Tracing action
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  TRUSTS — Constructive trust — Tracing action — Bribes paid in relation to Brazilian public works contract — Proceeds transferred into bank accounts in series of interconnected transactions — Whether traceable to defendants’ accounts in Jersey — Whether backwards tracing possible — Whether necessary connection between bribes and payments into defendants’ accounts

  4 Case(s) considered
• R (Cornwall Council) v Secretary of State for Health

  21 Dec 2012 [2012] EWHC 3739 (Admin); [2013] LGR 197; 16 CCLR 83, QBD (Beatson J)

  18 Feb 2014 [2014] EWCA Civ 12; [2014] 1 WLR 3408; [2014] 3 All ER 603; [2014] LGR 433; 17 CCLR 78; [2014] WLR (D) 80, CA

  22 May 2014 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given

  08 Jul 2015 [2015] UKSC 46; [2016] AC 137; [2015] 3 WLR 213; [2016] 1 All ER 962; 18 CCLR 497; [2015] WLR (D) 298; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 1 negative; most recently considered: 2023. Subsequent citations: 10.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Community care services — Persons in need of care and attention

  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Community care services — Provision of accommodation
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Community care services — Persons in need of care and attention — Duty of local authority to provide accommodation — Ordinary residence of individual with physical and learning disabilities — Local councils unable to decide who should have responsibility for individual upon him reaching 18 — Secretary of State determining individual’s ordinary residence to be area of claimant council — Whether Secretary of State erring — National Assistance Act 1948, ss 21, 32(3) — Children Act 1989, s 20

  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Community care services — Provision of accommodation — Incapacitated person reaching age of 18 having been in care of local authority — Dispute as to which local authority responsible for providing him with accommodation as adult — Secretary of State making determination as to where incapacitated person "ordinarily resident" — Whether live issue as to adults residence — Whether incapacitated person to be accommodated by authority in area of which ordinarily resident or by authority formerly providing care — Extent of power to provide assistance to person formerly in care — Whether Secretary of State having power to make determination — Proper approach to determining where incapacitated adult "ordinarily resident" — Whether to be determined by reference to place where parents ordinarily resident — National Assistance Act 1948 (as amended by Local Government Act 1972, s 195(6), Sch 23, para 2(1), Children Act 1989, s 108(5), Sch 13, para 11(1), National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, s 42(1)(a) and Health and Social Care Act 2008, s 148(2)), ss 21(1)(a), 24(1), 32(3) — Children Act 1989 (as amended by Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000), s 2(4)), ss 20, 23C(4)(c)

  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Community care services — Provision of accommodation — Incapacitated person reaching age of 18 having been in care of local authority— Dispute as to which local authority responsible for providing him with accommodation as an adult— Secretary of State making determination as to where incapacitated person “ordinarily resident”— Proper approach to determination— Principles applicable— Whether incapacitated person’s ordinary residence to be determined as being place of parents’ ordinary residence— Whether acquiring ordinary residence in area where placed by local authority for area where originally ordinarily resident— National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo 6, c 29) (as amended by Local Government Act 1972 (c 70), s 195(6), Sch 23, para 2, Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 (c 48), s 20(4), Sch, Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 108(5), Sch 13, para 11(1), National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c 19), s 42(1)(a) and Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c 14), s 148(2)), ss 21(1)(a), 24(1), 32(3) — Children Act 1989 (as amended by Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 (c 35), s 2(4)), ss 20, 23C(4)(c)

  14 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• International Energy Group Ltd v Zurich Insurance plc UK Branch

  24 Jan 2012 [2012] EWHC 69 (Comm), QBD

  06 Feb 2013 [2013] EWCA Civ 39; [2013] 3 All ER 395; [2013] 2 All ER (Comm) 336; [2013] CN 216, CA

  16 Jul 2014 (Association of British Insurers intervening) [2015] UKSC 33; [2016] AC 509; [2015] 2 WLR 1471; [2015] 4 All ER 813; [2016] 1 All ER (Comm) 114; [2015] Lloyd's Rep IR 598; [2015] WLR (D) 233; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 negative; most recently considered: 2019. Subsequent citations: 19.
  INSURANCE — Liability insurance — Indemnity

  INSURANCE — Guernsey — Insurance
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  INSURANCE — Liability insurance — Indemnity — Employers’ liability insurance covering employee’s injury or disease “caused during any period of insurance and arising out of ... his employment” — Employer paying premium for six years out of 27 in which employee exposed to asbestos dust — Employee developing mesothelioma — Whether insurers liable to provide full indemnity

  INSURANCE — Guernsey — Insurance — Liability insurance — Guernsey employer’s liability insurance covering employee’s injury or disease “caused during any period of insurance and arising out of … his employment” — Employer paying premium for six years out of 27 in which employee exposed to asbestos dust — Employee developing mesothelioma — Employer compensating employee — Whether insurers liable to provide full or proportionate indemnity to employer — Whether liable to pay all defence costs incurred by employer in defending employee’s claim

  10 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered
• Knauer v Ministry of Justice

  24 Jul 2014 [2014] EWHC 2553 (QB); [2014] CN 1627, QBD (Bean J)

  24 Feb 2015 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given

  24 Feb 2016 [2016] UKSC 9; [2016] AC 908; [2016] 2 WLR 672; [2016] 4 All ER 897; [2016] WLR (D) 103; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 25.
  FATAL ACCIDENTS ACTS — Damages — Multiplier for future loss

  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — House of Lords decisions — How far binding

  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Asbestos exposure
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  FATAL ACCIDENTS ACTS — Damages — Multiplier for future loss — Claimant’s wife dying due to exposure to asbestos during employment — Claimant bringing claim for loss of dependency — Employer admitting liability over four years later — Date from which multiplier for future loss to be calculated — Fatal Accidents Act 1976 (c 30), s 1 (as substituted by Administration of Justice Act 1982 (c 53), s 3)

  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — House of Lords decisions — How far binding — House of Lords decisions resulting in under-compensation in fatal accident cases — Whether justification to depart from decisions

  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Asbestos exposure — Defendant admitting liability for death of claimant’s wife from mesothelioma — Quantum of damages to be awarded

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Menelaou v Bank of Cyprus plc (Menelaou v Bank of Cyprus UK Ltd)

  02 Jul 2013 [2013] EWCA Civ 1960; [2014] 1 WLR 854; [2013] 2 P & CR 21; [2013] WLR (D) 266, CA

  10 Mar 2014 (appn all) [2014] 1 WLR 1232, SC(E)

  04 Nov 2015 [2015] UKSC 66; [2016] AC 176; [2015] 3 WLR 1334; [2016] 2 All ER 913; [2016] 2 All ER (Comm) 259; [2015] 2 Lloyd's Rep 585; [2016] 1 BCLC 335; [2015] WLR (D) 438; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent citations: 54.
  RESTITUTION — Unjust enrichment — Subrogation
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  RESTITUTION — Unjust enrichment — Subrogation — Bank holding charges over property to secure owners’ indebtedness — Bank agreeing to release charges to enable owners to sell property in order to purchase new property and repay part of indebtedness on condition that bank granted charge over new property — Charged property sold and new property purchased subject to new charge — Original charges not released until after sale and purchase completed — Charge over new property invalid — Whether bank entitled to be subrogated to unpaid vendor’s lien so as to have equitable charge over new property

  RESTITUTION — Unjust enrichment — Subrogation — Bank holding charges over property to secure owners’ indebtedness — Bank agreeing to release charges to enable owners to sell property to allow purchase of new property for daughter and repayment of part of indebtedness on condition that bank granted charge over new property — Charged property sold and new property purchased subject to new charge — Original charges not released until after sale and purchase completed — Charge over new property defectively executed and void — Whether bank entitled to be subrogated to unpaid vendor’s lien so as to have equitable charge over new property

  11 Case(s) considered