Results: 368

• R (Cavanagh) v Health Service Comr for England (R (Bhatt) v Health Service Comr for England, R (Redmond) v Health Service Comr for England)

  15 Dec 2005 [2005] EWCA Civ 1578; [2006] 1 WLR 1229; [2006] 3 All ER 543, CA

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE — Health Service Commissioner — Investigation of complaint
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  NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE — Health Service Commissioner — Investigation of complaint — Complaint that health service body failed to provide treatment for patient's vitamin deficiency — Health service body in response not questioning need for treatment — Commissioner finding that vitamin deficiency wrongly diagnosed and criticising doctors — Whether investigation exceeding commissioner's powers — Health Service Commissioners Act 1993, ss 3, 11

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• Gruber v BayWa AG

  20 Jan 2005 (Case C-464/01); EU:C:2005:32; [2006] QB 204; [2006] 2 WLR 205, ECJ

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 22.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under European Convention — Consumer contracts

  EUROPEAN UNION — Brussels Convention — Article 13, first paragraph
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under European Convention — Consumer contracts — Contract for supply of goods partly for private and partly for business purposes — Whether consumer contract — Circumstances to be taken into account by court seised — Brussels Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 1968 (as amended), Pt II, s 4

  EUROPEAN UNION — Brussels Convention — Article 13, first paragraph — Conditions for application — Definition of 'consumer contract' — Purchase of tiles by a farmer for roofing a farm building used partly for private and partly for business purposes

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 International Agreement considered
• Smith Kline Beecham plc v Apotex Europe Ltd

  26 Jul 2005 [2005] EWHC 1655 (Ch); [2006] 1 WLR 872; [2006] 2 All ER 53, Ch D

  23 May 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 658; [2007] Ch 71; [2006] 3 WLR 1146; [2006] 4 All ER 1078, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 46.
  INJUNCTION — Interlocutory — Undertaking as to damages
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  INJUNCTION — Interlocutory — Undertaking as to damages — Undertaking given to defendants — Whether benefit of undertakings impliedly extending to third parties affiliated to defendants — Whether defendants entitled to claim in restitution — Whether defendants entitled to claim in respect of third party losses — Whether defendants' pleaded claims in estoppel to be struck out — CPR Pt 25 Practice Direction, para 5.1(1)

  13 Case(s) considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• R (W) v Comr of Police of the Metropolis

  20 Jul 2005 [2005] EWHC 1586 (Admin); [2005] 1 WLR 3706; [2005] 3 All ER 749, DC

  11 May 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 458; [2007] QB 399; [2006] 3 WLR 1098; [2006] 3 All ER 458, CA

  Subsequent citations: 9.
  POLICE — Powers — Dispersal of groups
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  POLICE — Powers — Dispersal of groups — Police Commissioner designating dispersal areas — Officers authorised to remove persons under 16 from areas — Whether power of removal permissive or coercive — Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003, s 30(6)

  POLICE — Powers — Dispersal of groups — Police Commissioner designating dispersal areas — Officers authorised to “remove” persons under 16 — Whether power permissive or coercive — Whether power having effect of curfew — Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003, s 30(6)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered

• R (Hirst) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

  22 Mar 2002 [2002] EWHC 602 (Admin); [2002] 1 WLR 2929, QBD

  06 Jul 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 945; [2006] 1 WLR 3083; [2006] 4 All ER 639, CA

  17 Jul 2007 (pet dis) [2007] 1 WLR 2021, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 15.
  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Media interviews

  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Release on licence
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  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Media interviews — Prisoner seeking permission to give telephone interviews to radio journalist concerning prison issues — Prison rule that permission to be given only in exceptional circumstances — Policy of Secretary of State on permission more restrictive than prison rule — Whether prison rule and policy lawful — Whether restriction on right to freedom of expression justified — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 10

  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Release on licence — Revocation of discretionary life sentence prisoner's licence — Whether statutory scheme for recall to prison compatible with right to liberty — Crime (Sentences) Act 1997, s 32 — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 5

  3 Case(s) considered

  3 Statutes considered

• Armstrong v Times Newspapers Ltd (No 2)

  13 Jun 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 519; [2006] 1 WLR 2462, CA

  Subsequent citations: 10.
  PRACTICE — Trial — Libel action
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  PRACTICE — Trial — Libel action — Complicated libel action to be tried by judge alone — Judge finding words complained of bearing range of defamatory meanings — Court's power to order different questions of fact to be tried by different mode of trial — Whether power to order question of particular defamatory meaning to be tried by jury — Supreme Court Act 1981, s 69(1)(4)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

• Giele v General Medical Council

  14 Oct 2005 [2005] EWHC 2143 (Admin); [2006] 1 WLR 942; [2005] 4 All ER 1242, QBD

  Subsequent citations: 28.
  MEDICAL PRACTITIONER — Professional Conduct Committee — Powers
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  MEDICAL PRACTITIONER — Professional Conduct Committee — Powers — Panel finding medical practitioner guilty of sexual misconduct with patient — Whether lesser sanctions to be considered before erasure — Whether exceptional circumstances necessary to avoid erasure — Whether testimonials and practitioner's skill relevant considerations — Whether erasure necessary to maintain public confidence
• R v Nicholson (Heather)

  15 May 2006 [2006] EWCA Crim 1518; [2006] 1 WLR 2857; [2006] 2 Cr App R 429, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 3 neutral; most recently considered: 2024. Subsequent citations: 13.
  CRIME — Crime and disorder — Anti-social behaviour order
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  CRIME — Crime and disorder — Anti-social behaviour order — Prohibition against going within 500 metres of certain establishments — Defendant breaching order — Whether ignorance capable of constituting “reasonable excuse” for breach — Crime and Disorder Act 1998, s 1(10)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• In re SK (An Adult) (Forced Marriage: Appropriate Relief)

  03 Feb 2005 [2004] EWHC 3202 (Fam); [2006] 1 WLR 81; [2005] 3 All ER 421; [2005] 2 FLR 230, Fam D (Singer J)

  Subsequent citations: 30.
  HIGH COURT — Jurisdiction — Inherent jurisdiction
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  HIGH COURT — Jurisdiction — Inherent jurisdiction — British citizen failing to return from trip abroad — Circumstances giving rise to suspicion of forced marriage — Whether court having power to make order and give directions to ascertain position

• R (B) v S

  26 Jan 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 28; [2006] 1 WLR 810, CA

  29 Jun 2006 (pet dis) [2006] 1 WLR 2115, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 8.
  MENTAL DISORDER — Medical treatment, consent to — Refusal to consent
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  MENTAL DISORDER — Medical treatment, consent to — Refusal to consent — Convicted rapist detained in secure mental hospital refusing to consent to proposed treatment — Whether compulsory treatment in breach of Convention rights — Mental Health Act 1983, s 58(3) — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 3, 8, 14

  4 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered