Results: 555

• R (Cart) v Upper Tribunal (Public Law Project intervening) (R (C) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Public Law Project intervening), R (U) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Public Law Project intervening))

  01 Dec 2009 [2009] EWHC 3052 (Admin); [2011] QB 120; [2010] 2 WLR 1012; [2010] PTSR 824; [2010] 1 All ER 908; [2010] STC 493, DC

  23 Jul 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 859; [2011] QB 120; [2011] 2 WLR 36; [2011] PTSR 42; [2010] 4 All ER 714; [2010] STC 2556; [2010] WLR (D) 198, CA (Laws LJ, Owen J)

  22 Jun 2011 [2011] UKSC 28; [2012] 1 AC 663; [2011] 3 WLR 107; [2011] PTSR 1053; [2011] 4 All ER 127; [2011] STC 1659; [2012] 1 FLR 997; [2011] WLR (D) 203; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 7 positive; 8 neutral; most recently considered: 2024. Subsequent citations: 221.
  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Court's jurisdiction — Special Immigration Appeals Commission

  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Court's jurisdiction — Upper Tribunal
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  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Court's jurisdiction — Special Immigration Appeals Commission — Commission “superior court of record” — Commission revoking and refusing bail on basis of closed evidence without disclosing gist to claimants — Decisions unappealable — Whether commission alter ego of High Court — Whether decisions susceptible to judicial review — Whether violating claimants' Convention rights — Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997, s 1(3) (as inserted by Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, s 35)

  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Court's jurisdiction — Upper Tribunal — Tribunal “superior court of record” — Tribunal refusing permission to appeal to itself — Decision unappealable — Whether tribunal alter ego of High Court — Whether decision susceptible to judicial review — Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, s 3(5)

  16 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• R (Morge) v Hampshire County Council

  17 Nov 2009 [2009] EWHC 2940 (Admin); [2010] Env LR 432, QBD (Judge Bidder QC)

  10 Jun 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 608; [2010] PTSR 1882; [2010] LGR 961; [2010] WLR (D) 145, CA

  19 Jan 2011 [2011] UKSC 2; [2011] 1 WLR 268; [2011] PTSR 337; [2011] 1 All ER 744; [2011] LGR 271; [2011] WLR (D) 5; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 179.
  EUROPEAN UNION — Environment — Natural habitats

  PLANNING — Development — Natural habitats
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  EUROPEAN UNION — Environment — Natural habitats — Local planning authority granting permission for development affecting species or habitat of European protected species — Whether effects of development constituting “deliberate disturbance” of protected species — Whether planning decision made in breach of requirements of Council Directive — Council Directive 92/43/EEC, art 12(1)(b)

  PLANNING — Development — Natural habitats — European protected species — Local planning authority granting planning permission for development affecting species or habitat of bats — Whether effects of development constituting “deliberate disturbance” of protected species — Whether necessary to consider indirect, as well as direct, impact upon “deterioration or destruction of breeding sites or resting places” — Whether planning decision made in breach of requirements of Habitats Directive — Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c) Regulations 1994 (as amended by Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c) (Amendment) Regulations 2007, reg 5 and Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009, reg 7), regs 3(4), 39 — Council Directive 92/43/EEC, art 12(1)(b)(d)

  5 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• R v Forsyth (R v Mabey)

  23 Feb 2011 [2011] UKSC 9; [2011] 2 AC 69; [2011] 2 WLR 277; [2011] 2 All ER 165; [2011] WLR (D) 52; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Hope of Craighead DPSC, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  CROWN — Order in Council — Validity

  STATUTE — Construction — Hansard
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  CROWN — Order in Council — Validity — Statute conferring power on executive to make Orders in Council giving effect to United Nations Security Council Resolutions including creating criminal offences — Absence in statute of identifiable time limit for exercise of power — Security Council Resolution prohibiting making funds available to Government of Iraq — Order in Council making prohibited action criminal offence enacted ten years later — Whether recourse to parliamentary material surrounding passage of statute permissible to ascertain parliamentary intention as to temporal limits of power — Whether power to be exercised only at or about same time as relevant Security Council Resolution — Whether Order ultra vires enabling statute by reason of delay — United Nations Act 1946, s 1(1) — Iraq (United Nations Sanctions) Order 2000, arts 3(a), 11(4)

  STATUTE — Construction — Hansard — Statute conferring power on executive to make Orders in Council giving effect to United Nations Security Council Resolutions including creating criminal offences — Absence in statute of identifiable time limit for exercise of power — Whether recourse to parliamentary material surrounding passage of statute permissible to ascertain parliamentary intention as to temporal limits of power

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Makisi v Birmingham City Council (Yosief v Birmingham City Council, Nagi v Birmingham City Council)

  31 Mar 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 355; [2011] PTSR 1545; [2011] WLR (D) 124, CA (Maurice Kay, Rimer, Etherton LJJ)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 3.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Homeless persons — Review of local authority decision
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Homeless persons — Review of local authority decision — Applicant entitled to make oral representations requesting face-to-face hearing — Local authority deciding telephone hearing would suffice — Whether applicant or local authority to decide how oral representations to be made — Housing Act 1996, ss 202, 203 — Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Review Procedures) Regulations 1999, reg 8(2)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Telefónica Móviles España SA v Administración del Estado (Telefónica Móviles España SA v Administración del Estado and Secretaría de Estado de Telecomunicaciones.)

  10 Mar 2011 (Case C-85/10); EU:C:2011:141; [2012] Bus LR 737; [2011] WLR (D) 102, ECJ

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  EUROPEAN UNION — Telecommunications — Licensing

  EUROPEAN UNION — Telecommunication services — Directive 97/13/EC
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  EUROPEAN UNION — Telecommunications — Licensing — National legislation levying fee on telecommunications operators holding licence for use of radio frequencies — Directive requiring that charge for use of scarce resources be used to ensure their optimal use and foster innovative services and competition — Whether requirement obliging member states to use fee in particular way — Whether state permitted to establish distinction in charges between digital and other technologies — Parliament and Council Directive 97/13/EC, art 11(2)

  EUROPEAN UNION — Telecommunication services — Directive 97/13/EC — General authorisations and individual licences — Fees and charges applicable to undertakings holding individual licences — Article 112 — Interpretation — National legislation which does not allocate any special use to a fee — Increase in the fee for digital systems, but no change in the fee for first generation analogue systems — Compatibility

  1 EU Enactment considered

• Carey Group plc v AIB Group (UK) plc

  11 Mar 2011 [2011] EWHC 567 (Ch); [2012] Ch 304; [2012] 2 WLR 564; [2011] 2 All ER (Comm) 461; [2011] WLR (D) 86, Ch D (Briggs J)

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction — Public law of foreign state

  CONTRACT — Implied term — Duty to exercise discretion personally
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction — Public law of foreign state — Enforcement — Foreign statutory agency — Scheme under foreign statute for acquisition by agency of bank assets from participating institutions — Bank willing voluntarily to comply with acquisition process — Claimants seeking injunctions restraining agency from enforcing acquisition process within jurisdiction and bank from complying with it — Whether implementation of acquisition process unlawful exercise of sovereign power

  CONTRACT — Implied term — Duty to exercise discretion personally — Bank granting claimants secured lending facilities under facility agreement — Whether implied term that bank exercise discretions under agreement personally

  4 Case(s) considered
• Orr v Milton Keynes Council

  01 Feb 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 62; [2011] ICR 704; [2011] 4 All ER 1256; [2011] WLR (D) 30, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 10.
  EMPLOYMENT — Unfair dismissal — Reasonableness of dismissal
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  EMPLOYMENT — Unfair dismissal — Reasonableness of dismissal — Misconduct — Local authority employee offensive to team leader — Investigation and decision to dismiss by senior manager — Manager unaware employee's behaviour partly provoked by team leader's conduct — Whether limited knowledge of manager relevant state of mind of employer when considering fairness of dismissal — Employment Rights Act 1996, s 98(4)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Wright v Gater

  07 Nov 2011 [2011] EWHC 2881 (Ch); [2012] 1 WLR 802; [2012] STC 255; [2011] WLR (D) 318, Ch D (Norris J)

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  TRUSTS — Variation — Benefit
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  TRUSTS — Variation — Benefit — Substantial estates held on trust for minor contingently upon his attaining majority — Application for approval of variation of trust so as to defer vesting of estates until reaching age of 30 — Whether deferral of vesting beyond age of majority of “benefit” to minor — Whether variation to be approved — Variation of Trusts Act 1958, s 1(1)

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• Schütz (UK) Ltd v Werit UK Ltd (No 1)

  31 Mar 2010 [2010] EWHC 660 (Pat); [2010] Bus LR 1244, Ch D (Floyd J)

  29 Mar 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 303; [2011] Bus LR 1510; [2011] WLR (D) 115, CA

  13 Mar 2013 [2013] UKSC 16; [2013] Bus LR 565; [2013] 2 All ER 177; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent citations: 18.
  PATENT — Infringement — Making product
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  PATENT — Infringement — Making product — Invention claimed as combination — Whether person who replaces element “makes” patented product — Whether whole inventive concept remaining once element removed — Correct test to be applied — Patents Act 1977, s 60(1)(a)

  5 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered
• R (McDonald) v Kensington and Chelsea Royal London Borough Council

  13 Oct 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 1109; [2011] LGR 246, CA (Rix, Wilson LJJ, Sir David Keene)

  06 Jul 2011 (Age UK intervening) [2011] UKSC 33; [2011] PTSR 1266; [2011] 4 All ER 881; [2012] LGR 107; [2011] WLR (D) 218; Case details, SC(E)

  20 May 2014 (2015) 60 EHRR 1; (2014) 17 CCLR 187; The Times, 13 June 2014, ECtHR

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 88.
  SOCIAL SECURITY — Community care services — Assessment of needs
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  SOCIAL SECURITY — Community care services — Assessment of needs — Claimant with medical condition necessitating frequent urination — Claimant needing help to access lavatory or commode — Local authority assessing claimant’s needs as including assistance to use commode at night — Authority subsequently deciding that need capable of being met by provision of incontinence pads — Whether lawful — National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, s 47 — Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (as amended by Disability Discrimination Act 2005, ss 2, 3), ss 21B(1), 21D(2)(5), 21E, 49A — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch I, Pt 1, art 8

  5 Case(s) considered

  3 Statutes considered