Results: 71

• Lloyd v Google LLC

  08 Oct 2018 [2018] EWHC 2599 (QB); [2019] 1 WLR 1265; [2019] 1 All ER 740; [2018] WLR (D) 636, QBD (Warby J)

  02 Oct 2019 [2019] EWCA Civ 1599; [2020] QB 747; [2020] 2 WLR 484; [2020] 2 All ER 676; [2020] 2 All ER (Comm) 128; [2019] WLR (D) 547, CA (Dame Victoria Sharp P, Sir Geoffrey Vos C, Davis LJ)

  11 Mar 2020 (appn all) [2020] 1 WLR 2702; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Wilson, Lord Briggs, Lord Kitchin JJSC)

  10 Nov 2021 (Information Comr intervening) [2021] UKSC 50; [2022] AC 1217; [2021] 3 WLR 1268; [2022] 2 All ER 209; [2022] 1 All ER (Comm) 1107; The Times, 10 December 2021, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lady Arden, Lord Sales, Lord Leggatt, Lord Burrows JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 4 neutral; 1 negative; most recently considered: 2025. Subsequent citations: 83.
  DATA PROTECTION — Personal data — Processing

  PRACTICE — Parties — Representative action
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  DATA PROTECTION — Personal data — Processing — Claimant seeking compensation for “damage” suffered by reason of contravention of statutory data protection requirements — Claimant applying to serve claim out of jurisdiction — Rules permitting service out where “damage” sustained in jurisdiction or resulting from act committed within jurisdiction — Whether claimant suffering “damage” by reason of non-consensual use of personal data — Data Protection Act 1998 (c 29), ss 4(4), 13 — CPR Practice Direction 6B, para 3.1(9)

  PRACTICE — Parties — Representative action — Whether court empowered to direct that person could not act as representative claimant absent application for such direction — Whether existence of common grievance against same defendant sufficient to satisfy “same interest” condition for bringing of representative claim — CPR r 19.6

  DATA PROTECTION — Personal data — Processing — Claimant seeking compensation for “damage” suffered by reason of contravention of statutory data protection requirements — Whether claimant suffering “damage” by reason of non-consensual use of personal data — Data Protection Act 1998 (c 29), s 13 — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8 — Parliament and Council Directive 95/46/EC, art 23(1) — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, art 8

  PRACTICE — Parties — Representative action — Whether existence of common grievance against same defendant sufficient to satisfy “same interest” condition for bringing representative claim — CPR r 19.6

  DATA PROTECTION — Personal data — Processing — Claimant seeking compensation for “damage” suffered by reason of contravention of statutory data protection requirements — Whether claimant suffering “damage” by reason of non-consensual use of personal data — Data Protection Act 1998 (c 29), s 13 — Parliament and Council Directive 95/46/EC, art 23(1)

  PRACTICE — Parties — Representative action — Guidance as to conduct of representative actions — CPR r 19.6

  12 Case(s) considered

  3 Words & Phrases considered

  2 EU Enactments considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• R (KBR Inc) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office

  06 Sep 2018 [2018] EWHC 2368 (Admin); [2019] QB 675; [2019] 2 WLR 267; [2019] Lloyd's Rep FC 153; [2018] WLR (D) 562; [2019] Crim LR 50; [2018] ACD 128, DC (Gross LJ, Ouseley J)

  08 Apr 2019 (appn all) [2019] 1 WLR 3408, SC(E) ( Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Lord Briggs, Lord Sales JJSC)

  05 Feb 2021 [2021] UKSC 2; [2022] AC 519; [2021] 2 WLR 335; [2022] 1 All ER 97; [2021] 1 BCLC 651; [2021] WLR(D) 84, SC(E) (Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Briggs, Lady Arden, Lord Hamblen, Lord Stephens JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; most recently considered: 2023. Subsequent citations: 22.
  COMPANY — Fraud — Investigation
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  COMPANY — Fraud — Investigation — Director of Serious Fraud Office having power to require production of documents for fraud investigation — Whether power having extraterritorial application in respect of foreign company — Criminal Justice Act 1987 (c 38), s 2(3)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• R (Majera) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Bail for Immigration Detainees intervening) (SM (Rwanda) v Secretary of State for the Home Department)

  11 Dec 2018 [2018] EWCA Civ 2770; [2019] INLR 384, CA (Underhill, Asplin and Haddon-Cave LJJ)

  23 Jun 2020 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given

  20 Oct 2021 [2021] UKSC 46; [2022] AC 461; [2021] 3 WLR 1075; [2022] 2 All ER 305; [2021] WLR(D) 538, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Sales, Lord Leggatt, Lord Burrows, Lady Rose JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 5 positive; most recently considered: 2024. Subsequent citations: 58.
  IMMIGRATION — Detained person — Bail

  IMMIGRATION — Detained person — Immigration bail
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  IMMIGRATION — Detained person — Bail

  IMMIGRATION — Detained person — Immigration bail — Court’s order granting bail to immigration detainee failing to include requirement mandated by statute — Whether order void and of no effect — Whether open to Secretary of State to act in manner inconsistent with order without first obtaining variation or setting aside of order — Immigration Act 1971 (c 77), Sch 2, para 22(1A), Sch 3, para 2(5)

  11 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• A Local Authority v JB

  17 Sep 2019 [2019] EWCOP 39; [2020] 1 WLR 1; [2020] 2 All ER 992; [2019] WLR (D) 517, Ct of Protection (Roberts J)

  11 Jun 2020 [2020] EWCA Civ 735; [2021] Fam 37; [2020] 3 WLR 1014; [2021] 1 All ER 1103; [2021] 1 FLR 264; [2020] WLR (D) 336, CA (Sir Andrew McFarlane P, Singh, Baker LJJ)

  13 Apr 2021 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given

  24 Nov 2021 (Respond intervening) [2021] UKSC 52; [2022] AC 1322; [2021] 3 WLR 1381; The Times, 28 December 2021, SC(E) (Lord Briggs, Lady Arden, Lord Burrows, Lord Stephens, Lady Rose JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; most recently considered: 2025. Subsequent citations: 76.
  MENTAL DISORDER — Capacity — Consent to sexual relations

  MENTAL CAPACITY — Person lacking capacity — Sexual relations
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  MENTAL DISORDER — Capacity — Consent to sexual relations — Whether “information relevant to the decision” including understanding of extent to which non-consensual sexual relations might be criminal — Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c 9), s 3(1)

  MENTAL DISORDER — Capacity — Consent to sexual relations — Adult with impaired cognition wishing to initiate sexual relations with women — Whether having capacity to engage in sexual relations — Whether “information relevant to the decision” including understanding of valid and continuing consent — Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c 9), s 3

  MENTAL CAPACITY — Person lacking capacity — Sexual relations — Adult with impaired cognition wishing to initiate sexual relations with women — Whether having capacity to engage in sexual relations — Whether “information relevant to the decision” including that consent of other party necessary — Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c 9), ss 2, 3

  14 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Director of Public Prosecutions v Ziegler (Director of Public Prosecutions v Cooper)

  22 Jan 2019 [2019] EWHC 71 (Admin); [2020] QB 253; [2019] 2 WLR 1451; [2019] 1 Cr App R 32; [2019] WLR (D) 81; [2019] WLR(D) 81, DC (Singh LJ, Farbey J)

  03 Dec 2019 (appn all) [2020] 1 WLR 730, SC(E) ( Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Lord Hodge, Lady Arden JJSC)

  25 Jun 2021 [2021] UKSC 23; [2022] AC 408; [2021] 3 WLR 179; [2021] 4 All ER 985; [2021] 2 Cr App R 19; The Times, 7 July 2021, SC(E) (Lord Hodge DPSC, Lady Arden, Lord Sales, Lord Hamblen, Lord Stephens JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 9 positive; 2 neutral; 2 negative; most recently considered: 2025. Subsequent citations: 95.
  HUMAN RIGHTS — Freedom of expression and assembly — Interference with

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Freedom of expression — Freedom of assembly
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  HUMAN RIGHTS — Freedom of expression and assembly — Interference with — Defendants obstructing highway during demonstration against arms fair — Whether defendants acting “without lawful … excuse” if lawfully exercising Convention rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly — Whether interference with defendants’ Convention rights proportionate — Highways Act 1980 (c 66), s 137 (as amended by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c 48), ss 38, 46) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 10, 11

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Freedom of expression and assembly — Interference with — Defendants charged with obstructing highway during demonstration against arms fair — Whether defendants lawfully exercising Convention rights so as to have “lawful … excuse” — Whether interference with defendants’ Convention rights proportionate — Proper approach to proportionality by appellate court on appeal by way of case stated — Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c 43), s 111 — Highways Act 1980 (c 66), s 137 — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 10, 11

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Freedom of expression — Freedom of assembly — Interference with — Demonstrators establishing roadblock charged with obstructing highway without lawful excuse — Whether disproportionate interference with demonstrators’ Convention rights — Whether obstructing highway constituting “lawful … excuse” if interference disproportionate — Highways Act 1980 (c 66), s 137 (as amended by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c 48), ss 38, 46) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 10, 11

  11 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  3 Statutes considered
• Test Claimants in the FII Group Litigation v Revenue and Customs Comrs (formerly Inland Revenue Comrs)

  24 Nov 2016 [2016] EWCA Civ 1180; [2017] STC 696, CA (Sir Geoffrey Vos C, Underhill, David Richards LJJ)

  20 Nov 2020 [2020] UKSC 47; [2022] AC 1; [2020] 3 WLR 1369; [2021] 1 All ER 1001; [2020] STC 2387; [2020] WLR (D) 630, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Briggs, Lord Sales, Lord Hamblen JJSC, Lord Carnwath)

  Subsequent considerations : 5 positive; 3 neutral; most recently considered: 2024. Subsequent citations: 107.
  REVENUE — Corporation tax — Advance corporation tax

  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Postponement of limitation period — Mistake
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  REVENUE — Corporation tax — Advance corporation tax

  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Postponement of limitation period — Mistake — Claimants claiming repayment of tax paid under mistake of law — Claimants contending that running of limitation postponed until mistake discovered or discoverable with reasonable diligence — Revenue conceding that postponement of limitation period available in actions for relief from consequences of mistake of law — Whether revenue barred from withdrawing concession on appeal on grounds of res judicata, estoppel or abuse of process — Whether postponement of limitation period applying to mistakes of law as well as fact — Proper approach to date on which claimant “could with reasonable diligence have discovered” mistake of law — Limitation Act 1980 (c 58), s 32(1)(c)

  13 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Rossendale Borough Council v Hurstwood Properties (A) Ltd (Wigan Council v Property Alliance Group Ltd)

  30 Nov 2017 [2017] EWHC 3461 (Ch), Ch D (Judge Hodge QC)

  07 Mar 2019 [2019] EWCA Civ 364; [2019] 1 WLR 4567; [2019] 2 BCLC 591; [2019] WLR(D) 141, CA (David Richards, Henderson, Baker LJJ)

  05 Nov 2019 (appn all) [2019] 1 WLR 6659, SC(E) (Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Lord Carnwath, Lord Briggs JJSC)

  14 May 2021 [2021] UKSC 16; [2022] AC 690; [2021] 2 WLR 1125; [2022] 2 All ER 113; [2022] 1 All ER (Comm) 253; [2021] 2 BCLC 199; [2021] WLR(D) 286, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Briggs, Lord Kitchin, Lord Leggatt JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 6 neutral; 1 negative; most recently considered: 2025. Subsequent citations: 107.
  RATING — Non-domestic rates — Unoccupied hereditament
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  RATING — Non-domestic rates — Unoccupied hereditament — Owners of unoccupied hereditaments seeking to avoid liability to non-domestic rates by leasing properties to companies which were then wound up or struck off register of companies — Whether companies becoming “owners” of hereditaments for purposes of rating statute — Whether court able to pierce corporate veil of companies — Whether statute to be given purposive interpretation — Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c 41), ss 45(1)(b), 65(1)

  RATING — Non-domestic rates — Unoccupied hereditament — Owners of unoccupied hereditaments seeking to avoid liability to non-domestic rates by leasing hereditaments to companies which were then wound up or struck off register of companies — Whether companies becoming “owners” of hereditaments for purposes of rating statute — Whether court able to pierce corporate veil of companies — Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c 41), ss 45(1), 65(1)

  11 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• Secretary of State for Health v Servier Laboratories Ltd

  02 Aug 2017 [2017] EWHC 2006 (Ch); [2017] 5 CMLR 17, Ch D (Roth J)

  12 Jul 2019 [2019] EWCA Civ 1160; [2020] Ch 717; [2019] 3 WLR 938; [2020] 2 All ER 514; [2019] WLR (D) 401, CA (Sir Terence Etherton MR, Longmore, McCombe LJJ)

  11 Mar 2020 (appn all) [2020] 1 WLR 2722, SC(E) (Lord Wilson, Lord Briggs, Lord Kitchin JJSC)

  02 Jul 2021 [2021] UKSC 24; [2022] AC 959; [2021] 3 WLR 370; [2022] 1 All ER 1; The Times, 13 July 2021, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Briggs, Lord Kitchin, Lord Sales, Lord Hamblen JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 18.
  TORT — Cause of action — Causing loss by unlawful means
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  TORT — Cause of action — Causing loss by unlawful means — Health authorities alleging proprietors and licensees of drug patent preventing sale of cheaper version of drug in United Kingdom by deceiving European Patent Office and English courts — No allegation that such unlawful conduct interfering with freedom of European Patent Office or English courts to deal with health authorities — Whether tort of causing loss by unlawful means made out — Whether essential ingredient of tort that defendant’s unlawful conduct interfered with third party’s liberty to deal with claimant

  TORT — Cause of action — Causing loss by unlawful means — Health authorities alleging proprietors and licensees of drug patent preventing sale of cheaper version of drug in United Kingdom by deceiving European Patent Office and English courts — No allegation that such unlawful conduct interfering with freedom of European Patent Office or English courts to deal with health authorities — Whether necessary element of tort that unlawful means interfered with third party’s freedom to deal with claimant

  7 Case(s) considered
• G v G (Secretary of State for the Home Department intervening)

  05 Jun 2020 [2020] EWHC 1886 (Fam), Fam D (Lieven J)

  15 Sep 2020 [2020] EWCA Civ 1185; [2022] AC 544; [2021] 2 WLR 705; [2021] 2 FLR 481; [2020] WLR (D) 505, CA (Hickinbottom, Moylan, Peter Jackson LJJ)

  15 Dec 2020 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given

  19 Mar 2021 [2021] UKSC 9; [2022] AC 544; [2021] 2 WLR 705; [2021] 4 All ER 113; [2021] 2 FLR 536, SC(E) (Hickinbottom, Moylan, Peter Jackson LJJ)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 5 neutral; most recently considered: 2025. Subsequent citations: 40.
  CHILDREN — Custody rights — Breach
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  CHILDREN — Custody rights — Breach — Child habitually resident in South Africa wrongfully removed by mother to England — Mother applying for asylum in England and naming child as dependant — Father applying under Hague Convention for child’s return — Whether Hague Convention application to be stayed pending determination of asylum application — Whether child named as dependant on parent’s asylum application to be treated as making own asylum application — Whether court prevented from implementing return order pending determination of asylum application — Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (c 60), Sch 1, art 12 — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c 41), ss 78, 82, 104 — Immigration Rules, para 329 — Council Directive 2005/85/EC, arts 2(b), 7(1), 39

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Secretary of State for Health v Servier Laboratories Ltd (Welsh Ministers v Servier Laboratories Ltd, Scottish Ministers v Servier Laboratories Ltd)

  17 Apr 2019 [2019] EWHC 1004 (Ch); [2019] 5 CMLR 6, Ch D (Roth J)

  27 Jun 2019 [2019] EWCA Civ 1096; [2020] Ch 193; [2020] 2 WLR 149; [2020] 1 All ER 432; [2020] 1 All ER (Comm) 402; [2019] WLR (D) 366, CA (Longmore, Rose LJJ, Sir Stephen Richards)

  25 Jul 2019 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given

  06 Nov 2020 [2020] UKSC 44; [2022] AC 921; [2020] 3 WLR 1207; [2021] 2 All ER 667; [2021] 1 All ER (Comm) 1283; The Times, 20 November 2020, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Briggs, Lord Sales, Lord Hamblen JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE — Judgment — Res judicata

  EUROPEAN UNION — Res judicata — Judgment of General Court
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  EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE — Judgment — Res judicata — Claimants seeking damages in English court in respect of defendants’ anti-competitive conduct — European Commission giving decision in relation to defendants’ anti-competitive conduct — Part of decision subsequently annulled by General Court of the European Union — Whether General Court’s factual findings binding as res judicata in English proceedings

  EUROPEAN UNION — Res judicata — Judgment of General Court — Claimants seeking damages in English court in respect of defendants’ anti-competitive conduct — European Commission giving decision in relation to defendants’ anti-competitve conduct — Part of decision subsequently annulled by General Court of the European Union — Commission and defendants appealing against General Court’s decision — Whether General Court’s factual findings binding as res judicata in English proceedings

  9 Case(s) considered