Results: 71

• ZZ (France) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (No 2)

  24 Jan 2014 [2014] EWCA Civ 7; [2014] QB 820; [2014] 2 WLR 791; [2014] 3 All ER 587; [2014] 2 CMLR 49; [2014] INLR 858; [2014] WLR (D) 26, CA

  07 Apr 2014 (appn dis) [2014] 1 WLR 1856, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive. Subsequent citations: 17.
  EUROPEAN UNION — Freedom of movement — Rights of entry and residence
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  EUROPEAN UNION — Freedom of movement — Rights of entry and residence — Union citizen lawfully resident in United Kingdom refused re-entry by Home Secretary on grounds of public security — Special Immigration Appeals Commission conducting open and closed hearings and giving open and closed judgments on appeal — Disclosure to citizen of grounds for Home Secretary’s decision and of evidence limited for public security reasons — Court of Justice of the European Union ruling on reference by Court of Appeal on extent national authority required to disclose grounds and evidence to citizen — Whether requirement for essence of public security grounds for decision to be disclosed to citizen — Whether state security considerations permitting non-disclosure of essence of grounds or of evidence — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, art 47 — Parliament and Council Directive 2004/38/EC, arts 30(2), 31

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 EU Enactments considered

• Gore v Stannard (trading as Wyvern Tyres)

  04 Oct 2012 [2012] EWCA Civ 1248; [2014] QB 1; [2013] 3 WLR 623; [2013] 1 All ER 694; [2012] 3 EGLR 129; [2013] Env LR 10; [2012] WLR (D) 266, CA (Ward, Etherton, Lewison LJJ)

  RYLANDS V FLETCHER — Fire damage — Liability
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  RYLANDS V FLETCHER — Fire damage — Liability — Fire breaking out on defendant’s premises as result of electrical fault — Tyres stored on premises by defendant feeding fire — Fire spreading and causing damage to claimant’s premises — Whether escape of dangerous thing from defendant’s land — Whether strict liability rule applying

  5 Case(s) considered
• O v Minister voor Immigratie, Integratie en Asiel (B v Minister voor Immigratie, Integratie en Asiel)

  12 Mar 2014 (Case C-456/12); EU:C:2014:135; [2014] QB 1163; [2014] 3 WLR 799; [2014] All ER (EC) 843; [2014] 3 CMLR 319; [2014] WLR (D) 120, ECJ

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 46.
  EUROPEAN UNION — Citizenship — Right to reside

  EUROPEAN UNION — Directive 2004/38/EC — Article 21(1) TFEU
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  EUROPEAN UNION — Citizenship — Right to reside — Third country nationals family members of Union citizens — Union citizens resident in member state of which they were nationals — Third country nationals resident of member state other than citizens’ home member state — Union citizens exercising right of freedom of movement and spending short periods of residence with third country nationals in host states — Third country nationals returning to live with citizens in home member state — Whether third country nationals having right of residence in Union citizens’ home member state — Conditions of right — FEU Treaty, art 21(1)FEU — Parliament and Council Directive2004/38/EC, arts 7(1)(2), 16(1)(2)

  EUROPEAN UNION — Directive 2004/38/EC — Article 21(1) TFEU — Right to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States — Beneficiaries — Right of residence of a third-country national who is a family member of a Union citizen in the Member State of which that citizen is a national — Return of the Union citizen to that Member State after short periods of residence spent in another Member State

  4 Case(s) considered

  2 EU Enactments considered
• Yukos Capital Sarl v OJSC Rosneft Oil Co (No 2)

  14 Jun 2011 [2011] EWHC 1461 (Comm); [2012] 1 All ER (Comm) 479; [2011] 2 Lloyd's Rep 443, QBD (Hamblen J)

  27 Jun 2012 [2012] EWCA Civ 855; [2014] QB 458; [2013] 3 WLR 1329; [2013] 1 All ER 223; [2013] 1 All ER (Comm) 327; [2012] 2 Lloyd's Rep 208; [2012] WLR (D) 186, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 67.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Sovereign immunity — Act of state

  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Issue estoppel
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Sovereign immunity — Act of state — Russian arbitration awards annulled by Russian court — Claimant seeking to enforce awards in England alleging that Russian court decisions procured by illicit state interference — Whether doctrine of act of state applying to judicial acts — Whether operating to bar claim

  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Issue estoppel — Russian arbitration awards annulled by Russian court — Dutch court holding Russian court decisions partial and dependent and refusing to recognise annulment — Claimant seeking to enforce awards in England alleging that Russian court decisions procured by illicit state interference — Whether Dutch decision determinative in England

  15 Case(s) considered

• Makudi v Baron Triesman of Tottenham

  01 Feb 2013 [2013] EWHC 142 (QB); [2013] CN 202, QBD (Tugendhat J)

  26 Feb 2014 [2014] EWCA Civ 179; [2014] QB 839; [2014] 2 WLR 1228; [2014] 3 All ER 36; [2014] WLR (D) 98, CA

  30 Oct 2014 (appn dis) [2014] 1 WLR 4207, SC(E)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Striking out

  PARLIAMENT — Privilege — Proceedings in Parliament
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  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Striking out — Abuse of process — Defamation claim — Whether publications capable of bearing meanings attributed to them — Whether claims to be struck out

  PARLIAMENT — Privilege — Proceedings in Parliament — Defendant in evidence to parliamentary committee making defamatory statements about claimant — Defendant in response to committee’s request appearing before extra-parliamentary inquiry and repeating statements — Claimant bringing action in defamation and malicious falsehood in respect of repetition of statements outside of Parliament — Whether parliamentary privilege extending to repetition of defamatory statements — Whether action lying — Whether to be struck out — Bill of Rights 1689, art 9

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Sarjantson v Chief Constable of Humberside Police

  18 Oct 2013 [2013] EWCA Civ 1252; [2014] QB 411; [2013] 3 WLR 1540; [2014] 1 All ER 960; [2014] Med LR 63; [2013] WLR (D) 393; [2013] Inquest LR 252, CA

  09 Apr 2014 (appn dis) [2014] 1 WLR 1856, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 21.
  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care — Police
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  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care — Police — Urgent telephone calls to police indicating imminent attack on claimant victim by group of men — Police slow in responding — Victim suffering serious injury from attackers — Whether prior knowledge of identity of victim required for duty of care to arise by virtue of Convention rights — Whether material that violent incident already ongoing — Whether relevant that timeous response would have made no difference — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 2, 3

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• R (Evans) v Attorney General

  09 Jul 2013 [2013] EWHC 1960 (Admin); [2014] QB 855; [2013] 3 WLR 1631; [2014] 1 All ER 23; [2013] WLR (D) 313, DC

  12 Mar 2014 [2014] EWCA Civ 254; [2014] QB 855; [2014] 2 WLR 1334; [2014] 3 All ER 682; [2014] WLR (D) 124, CA

  26 Mar 2015 (Campaign for Freedom of Information intervening) [2015] UKSC 21; [2015] AC 1787; [2015] 2 WLR 813; [2015] 4 All ER 395; [2015] WLR (D) 151; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 2 neutral; 2 negative; most recently considered: 2024. Subsequent citations: 70.
  FREEDOM OF INFORMATION — Exempt information — Accountable person’s certificate
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  FREEDOM OF INFORMATION — Exempt information — Accountable person’s certificate — Upper Tribunal ordering partial disclosure of correspondence between Prince of Wales and government departments — Attorney General issuing certificate effectively overriding requirement for disclosure — Whether “reasonable grounds” justifying issue of certificate — Whether certification concerning environmental information permissible — Whether compatible with European Union law and treaty obligations on access to environmental information — Freedom of Information Act 2000, s 53(2) — Environmental Information Regulations 2004, reg 18 — Parliament and Council Directive 2003/4/EC, art 6 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, art 47 — Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (1998), art 9

  FREEDOM OF INFORMATION — Exempt information — Accountable person’s certificate — Upper Tribunal ordering partial disclosure of correspondence between Prince of Wales and government departments — Attorney General issuing certificate effectively overriding requirement for disclosure — Whether “reasonable grounds” justifying issue of certificate — Whether certification concerning environmental information compatible with EU law and treaty obligations on access to environmental information — Freedom of Information Act 2000, s 53(2) — Environmental Information Regulations 2004, reg 18 — Parliament and Council Directive 2003/4/EC, art 6 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, art 47 — Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (1998), art 9

  9 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 EU Enactments considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

  1 International Agreement considered

• Flame SA v Glory Wealth Shipping PTE Ltd

  22 Oct 2013 [2013] EWHC 3153 (Comm); [2014] QB 1080; [2014] 2 WLR 1405; [2014] 1 All ER (Comm) 1043; [2013] WLR (D) 400; [2013] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 653, QBD (Teare J)

  Subsequent citations: 7.
  DAMAGES — Measure of damages — Repudiatory breach

  SHIPPING — Charterparty — Construction
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  DAMAGES — Measure of damages — Repudiatory breach — Claimant accepting defendant’s repudiatory breach of contract — Whether claimant’s ability to fulfil contractual obligations absent repudiatory breach relevant to assessment of damages

  SHIPPING — Charterparty — Construction — Contract of affreightment providing "disponent owners" of ship "to be nominated motorship" to carry cargoes — Whether disponent owners obliged to provide ship by charter

  3 Case(s) considered
• R (Omar) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (R (Njoroge) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs)

  26 Jun 2012 [2012] EWHC 1737 (Admin); [2013] 1 All ER 161; [2012] WLR (D) 185; [2012] ACD 112, DC (Sir John Thomas P, Burnett J)

  27 Feb 2013 [2013] EWCA Civ 118; [2014] QB 112; [2013] 3 WLR 439; [2013] 3 All ER 95; [2013] WLR (D) 84; [2013] ACD 65, CA (Lord Judge CJ, Maurice Kay, Richards LJJ)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 3 neutral; 2 negative; most recently considered: 2023. Subsequent citations: 31.
  PRACTICE — Disclosure — Action for

  PRACTICE — Judgment — Closed material procedure
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  PRACTICE — Disclosure — Action for — Claimants seeking order requiring Foreign Secretary to disclose information and evidence for use in foreign criminal proceedings — Whether existence of statutory regime excluding jurisdiction to make such order — Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003, s 13, Sch 1, para 5

  PRACTICE — Judgment — Closed material procedure — Judicial review claims heard pursuant to closed material procedure — Judgment containing closed annexes — Whether court empowered to require Secretary of State to file public interest immunity certificate in order to prevent publication of summary of annexes

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Fish Legal v Information Comr

  19 Dec 2013 (Case C-279/12); EU:C:2013:853; EU:C:2013:539; [2014] QB 521; [2014] 2 WLR 568; [2013] WLR (D) 506, ECJ

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 39.
  EUROPEAN UNION — Information — Public access to environmental information

  EUROPEAN UNION — Reference for a preliminary ruling — Aarhus Convention
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  EUROPEAN UNION — Information — Public access to environmental information — Applicants’ requests for environmental information from private water companies refused — Water companies supervised by public authorities — Whether companies themselves constituting “public authorities” — Whether performing “public administrative functions” — Whether providing public environmental services under control of other public authorities — Extent of disclosure obligations of different categories of public authority — Environmental Information Regulations 2004, reg 2(2) — Parliament and Council Directive 2003/4/EC, art 2(2)

  EUROPEAN UNION — Reference for a preliminary ruling — Aarhus Convention — Directive 2003/4/EC — Public access to environmental information — Scope — Concept of ‘public authority’ — Water and sewerage undertakers — Privatisation of the water industry in England and Wales

  3 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered