Results: 80

• Bonsall v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

  08 Dec 2015 [2015] EWCA Civ 1246; [2016] QB 811; [2016] 2 WLR 1407; [2015] WLR (D) 514, CA

  11 Apr 2016 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court refused

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  PLANNING — Planning control — Breach
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  PLANNING — Planning control — Breach — Landowner changing use of barn without planning permission — Change deliberately concealed for four years — Enforcement notice issued for breach of planning control — Supreme Court authority establishing statutory four-year limitation period for enforcement action not applying in case of deception — Subsequent enactment of procedure enabling enforcement action outside time limit by obtaining planning enforcement order — Whether time limit applying in cases of deception where no planning enforcement order obtained — Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended by Planning and Compensation Act 1991, s 4(1) and Localism Act 2011, s 124(1)), ss 171B, 171BA

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• R (HC) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (AIRE Centre intervening)

  06 Dec 2013 [2013] EWHC 3874 (Admin); [2013] CN 1872, QBD (Supperstone J)

  10 Feb 2015 (AIRE Centre intervening) [2015] EWCA Civ 49; [2016] QB 455; [2015] 3 WLR 1867; [2015] WLR (D) 61, CA

  07 Mar 2016 (appn all) [2016] 1 WLR 2352, SC(E)

  15 Nov 2017 [2017] UKSC 73; [2019] AC 845; [2017] 3 WLR 1486; [2018] 2 All ER 1; [2017] WLR (D) 761; Case details, SC(E) (Baroness Hale of Richmond PSC, Lord Wilson, Lord Sumption, Lord Carnwath JJSC, Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; most recently considered: 2023. Subsequent citations: 62.
  EUROPEAN UNION — Citizenship — Right to reside
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  EUROPEAN UNION — Citizenship — Right to reside — Third-country national with right of residence in United Kingdom as primary carer of British citizen children — Carer applying for non-contributory welfare benefits — When derivative right of residence arising — Whether status conferring right to social benefits — Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 17(1) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 14 — Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (SI 1987/1967), reg 21AA (as inserted by Social Security (Persons from Abroad) Amendment Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/1026), reg 6(3) and amended by Social Security (Habitual Residence) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/2587), reg 2) — Child Benefit (General) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/223), reg 23(4) (as amended by Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/2612), reg 3) — Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/1003), reg 15A (as inserted by Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/1547), reg 3, Sch 1, para 9 and amended by Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) (No 2) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/2560), reg 2, Sch, para 3) — Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (England) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/1294), reg 4(1)(b)(iii)(iv) (as inserted by Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/2588), reg 2(2)) — FEU Treaty, arts 20FEU, 21FEU

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  2 Statutes considered

  4 Statutory Instruments considered
• Sanneh v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (AIRE Centre intervening) (Scott v Croydon London Borough Council, Merali v Birmingham City Council)

  07 Jan 2013 [2013] UKUT 490 (AAC), UT

  10 Feb 2015 (AIRE Centre intervening) [2015] EWCA Civ 49; [2016] QB 455; [2015] 3 WLR 1867; [2015] WLR (D) 61, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral; most recently considered: 2021.
  EUROPEAN UNION — Citizenship — Right to reside
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  EUROPEAN UNION — Citizenship — Right to reside — Principle protecting European Union citizens from being effectively forced to leave territory of European Union — Whether conferring right to social welfare benefits — Whether domestic legislation precluding access to benefits unlawful — Social Security (Habitual Residence) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/2587) — Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/2588) — Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/2612)

  EUROPEAN UNION — Citizenship — Right to reside — Third-country nationals with derivative right of residence in United Kingdom as primary carers of British citizen children — Carers applying for non-contributory welfare benefits — When derivative right of residence arising — Whether status conferring right to social benefits — Income Support (General) Regulations 1987, reg 21AA (as inserted by Social Security (Persons from Abroad) Amendment Regulations 2006, reg 6(3) and amended by Social Security (Habitual Residence) (Amendment) Regulations 2012, reg 2) — Child Benefit (General) Regulations 2006, reg 23(4) (as substituted by Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012, reg 3) — Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006, reg 15A (as inserted by Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) Regulations, reg 3, Sch 1, para 9 and amended by Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) (No 2) Regulations 2012, reg 2, Sch, para 3) — Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (England) Regulations 2006, reg 4(1)(b)(iii)(iv) (as inserted by Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012, reg 2(2)) — FEU Treaty, arts 20FEU, 21FEU

  12 Case(s) considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  6 Statutory Instruments considered

• Banque Cantonale de Geneve v Polevent Ltd

  10 Jul 2015 [2015] EWHC 1968 (Comm); [2016] QB 394; [2016] 2 WLR 550; [2015] WLR (D) 304, QBD (Teare J)

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Unjust enrichment — Proper law
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Unjust enrichment — Proper law — Claimant bringing action for restitution based on unjust enrichment — Whether element of deceit rendering action claim in tort — Whether “relationship existing” between parties — Whether action governed by law of Geneva or England — Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 864/2007, arts 4(1), 10(1)(3)

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 EU Enactment considered
• Benkharbouche v Embassy of the Republic of Sudan (Janah v Libya)

  04 Oct 2013 UKEAT/401/12; [2014] ICR 169, EAT

  05 Feb 2015 (Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs intervening) [2015] EWCA Civ 33; [2016] QB 347; [2015] 3 WLR 301; [2015] 3 WLR 301; [2015] ICR 793; [2016] 1 All ER 816; [2015] WLR (D) 83, CA

  18 Oct 2017 (Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs intervening) [2017] UKSC 62; [2019] AC 777; [2017] 3 WLR 957; [2017] ICR 1327; [2018] 1 All ER 662; [2017] WLR (D) 691; Case details, SC(E) (Baroness Hale of Richmond PSC, Lord Wilson, Lord Sumption JJSC, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony)

  Subsequent considerations : 7 positive; 3 neutral; most recently considered: 2025. Subsequent citations: 98.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Sovereign immunity — Employment
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Sovereign immunity — Employment — Domestic worker at London embassy — Claims of unfair dismissal and breach of working time provisions — Embassy claiming state immunity — Worker excluded from exception for employees — Whether denial of access to enforcement of claims breach of right to fair trial — Whether statute to be disapplied — State Immunity Act 1978, ss 4(2), 16 — Human Rights Act 1998, s 3, Sch 1, art 6 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, art 47

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Sovereign immunity — Employment — Domestic worker at London embassy — Claims for unfair dismissal and breach of working time provisions — Embassy claiming state immunity — Worker excluded by statute from exception for employees — Whether denial of access to enforcement of claims breach of Convention right to fair trial — Whether declaration of incompatibility to be granted — Whether statute to be disapplied in so far as incompatible with European Union law — State Immunity Act 1978, ss 4(2), 16 — Human Rights Act 1998, ss 3, 4, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 6, 14 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union 2004, art 47

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Sovereign immunity — Employment — Domestic worker at London embassy — Claims of unfair dismissal and breach of working time provisions — Embassy claiming state immunity — Worker excluded by statute from exception for employees — Whether denial of access to enforcement of claims breach of Convention right to fair trial — Whether statutory provisions to be disapplied in so far as incompatible with European Union law — State Immunity Act 1978 (c 33), ss 4(2), 16(1)(a) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 6, 14 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2004), art 47

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Sovereign immunity — Employment — Domestic worker at London embassy — Claims of unfair dismissal and breach of working time provisions — Embassy claiming state immunity — Worker excluded by statute from exception for employees — Whether denial of access to enforcement of claims breach of Convention right to fair trial — Whether statutory provisions to be disapplied in so far as incompatible with European Union law — State Immunity Act 1978 (c 33), ss 4(2), 16(1)(a) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 6, 14 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, art 47

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  2 Statutes considered

• R (Best) v Chief Land Registrar

  07 May 2014 [2014] EWHC 1370 (Admin); [2016] QB 23; [2015] 3 WLR 1505; [2014] 3 All ER 637; [2014] WLR (D) 211, QBD (Ouseley J)

  21 Jan 2015 [2015] EWCA Civ 17; [2016] QB 23; [2015] 3 WLR 1505; [2015] 4 All ER 495; [2015] WLR (D) 20, CA

  Subsequent citations: 19.
  LAND REGISTRATION — Registration — Adverse possession
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  LAND REGISTRATION — Registration — Adverse possession — Trespasser applying to be registered as proprietor of premises on basis of ten years’ adverse possession — Occupation of premises becoming criminal offence during period of possession relied on — Whether trespasser entitled to rely on criminal trespass to found claim to adverse possession — Land Registration Act 2002, s 97, Sch 6, para 1 — Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, s 144

  4 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

• Buckley v Tibber

  [2014] UKUT 74 (LC), UT

  16 Dec 2015 [2015] EWCA Civ 1294; [2016] QB 706; [2016] 2 WLR 963; [2015] WLR (D) 530, CA

  23 May 2016 (appn dis) [2016] 1 WLR 2592, SC(E)

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Leasehold enfranchisement — Tenant’s right to acquire reversion
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Leasehold enfranchisement — Tenant’s right to acquire reversion — Reversioner serving counter-notice proposing leaseback— Whether reversioner precluded from contending that physical extent of leaseback premises and terms of leaseback different from those set out in counter-notice— Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c 28), s 21(3)(a)(ii)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Feest v South West Strategic Health Authority

  07 Feb 2014 [2014] EWHC 177 (QB); [2014] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 419, QBD (Judge Havelock-Allan QC)

  15 Jul 2015 (Bay Island Voyages, third party) [2015] EWCA Civ 708; [2016] QB 503; [2016] 2 WLR 649; [2016] 4 All ER 107; [2016] 1 All ER (Comm) 821; [2015] 2 Lloyd's Rep 652; [2015] WLR (D) 306, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; most recently considered: 2023. Subsequent citations: 1.
  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Carriage by sea — Personal injury of passenger

  SHIPPING — Carriage of passengers — Liability for injury
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  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Carriage by sea — Personal injury of passenger — Claimant employee injured on rigid inflatable boat trip organised by employer — Claimant suing employer — Employer claiming contribution from operator of boat — Employer's contribution claim brought outside time limit laid down in Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea 1974 — Whether claim for contribution time-barred — Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978, s 1 — Merchant Shipping Act 1979, Sch 3, art 16

  SHIPPING — Carriage of passengers — Liability for injury — Claimant injured during boat trip — Claimant bringing action against employer alleging injury sustained in course of employment — Employer claiming contribution from carrier — Carrier relying on time bar in Athens Convention — Whether Convention applying to contribution proceedings — Time bar applying to action for damages for personal injury — Whether extinguishing underlying right of action — Whether claim for contribution against carrier extinguished — Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978 (c 47), s 1(1) — Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (c 21), Sch 6, Pt I, art 16(1)

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

• Hobohm v Benedikt Kampik Ltd & Co KG (Rüdiger Hobohm v Benedikt Kampik Ltd & Co. KG and Others)

  23 Dec 2015 (Case C-297/14); [2016] QB 616; [2016] 2 WLR 940; [2015] WLR (D) 546; EU:C:2015:556; EU:C:2015:844, ECJ

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under Council Regulation — Special jurisdiction

  EUROPEAN UNION — Reference for a preliminary ruling — Judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under Council Regulation — Special jurisdiction — Consumer contracts — Consumer in first member state concluding first contract with intermediary in second member state in course of professional activity which intermediary “directs … to” member state of consumer’s domicile — Second contract concluded between same parties designed to achieve economic objective of first contract — Second contract not itself within scope of professional activity directed by intermediary to member state of consumer’s domicile — Whether courts of consumer’s domicile having jurisdiction over dispute concerning second contract — Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001, arts 15(1)(c), 16(1)

  EUROPEAN UNION — Reference for a preliminary ruling — Judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters — Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 — Jurisdiction in respect of consumer contracts — Articles 15(1)(c) and 16(1) — Meaning of a commercial or professional activity ‘directed to’ the Member State of the consumer’s domicile — Transaction-management contract designed to achieve the economic objective pursued by means of a brokerage contract concluded beforehand in the course of a commercial or professional activity ‘directed to’ the Member State of the consumer’s domicile — Close link

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

• Winspear v City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

  13 Nov 2015 [2015] EWHC 3250 (QB); [2016] QB 691; [2016] 2 WLR 1089; [2015] WLR (D) 468, QBD (Blake J)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  HUMAN RIGHTS — Respect for private life — Interference with

  MENTAL DISORDER — Incapable person — Medical treatment
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  HUMAN RIGHTS — Respect for private life — Interference with — Doctor placing do not resuscitate notice on record of patient lacking mental capacity without consulting carer mother — Breach of statutory requirements relating to incapable persons — Whether doctor’s decision breaching patient’s Convention right to respect for private life — Notice cancelled within ten hours on complaint by mother — Notice having no impact on patient’s treatment — Whether declaration that Convention rights breached just satisfaction — Whether damages to be awarded — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 8 — Mental Capacity Act 2005, s 4(7)

  MENTAL DISORDER — Incapable person — Medical treatment — Doctor placing do not resuscitate notice on record of patient lacking mental capacity without consulting carer mother — Whether decision in breach of statutory requirements — Mental Capacity Act 2005, s 4(7)

  1 Case considered

  2 Statutes considered