Results: 120

• Mirvahedy v Henley

  21 Nov 2001 [2001] EWCA Civ 1749; [2002] QB 769; [2002] 2 WLR 566, CA (Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss P, Hale and Keene LJJ)

  18 Apr 2002 (pet all) [2002] 1 WLR 1346, HL(E) (Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Hope of Craighead and Lord Scott of Foscote)

  20 Mar 2003 [2003] UKHL 16; [2003] 2 AC 491; [2003] 2 WLR 882; [2003] 2 All ER 401; [2003] RTR 371, HL(E) (Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Slynn of Hadley, Lord Hobhouse of Woodborough, Lord Scott of Foscote and Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 10.
  ANIMAL — Horse — Characteristics
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  ANIMAL — Horse — Characteristics — Frightened horse escaping from field and colliding with car on highway causing injury to driver — Whether due to characteristics found in species in particular circumstances — Whether keeper liable — Animals Act 1971, s 2(2)

  7 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Runa Begum v Tower Hamlets London Borough Council

  06 Mar 2002 [2002] EWCA Civ 239; [2002] 1 WLR 2491; [2002] 2 All ER 668; [2002] LGR 417, CA

  13 Feb 2003 (First Secretary of State intervening) [2003] UKHL 5; [2003] 2 AC 430; [2003] 2 WLR 388; [2003] 1 All ER 731; [2003] LGR 205; [2003] HLR 32, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 10 positive; 9 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 175.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Homeless persons — Refusal of offer of accommodation
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Homeless persons — Refusal of offer of accommodation — Local authority officer reviewing offer and concluding that accommodation suitable — Homeless person appealing to county court — Whether statutory scheme for review and appeal compatible with homeless person's right to fair determination of civil rights — Housing Act 1996, ss 202, 204 — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 6(1) — Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Allocation of Housing and Homelessness Functions) Order 1996, art 3

  10 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• R (Quintavalle) v Secretary of State for Health

  15 Nov 2001 [2001] EWHC Admin 918; [2001] 4 All ER 1013, QBD (Crane J)

  18 Jan 2002 [2002] EWCA Civ 29; [2002] QB 628; [2002] 2 WLR 550; [2002] 2 All ER 625, CA

  10 Jun 2002 (pet all) [2002] 1 WLR 1929, HL(E)

  13 Mar 2003 [2003] UKHL 13; [2003] 2 AC 687; [2003] 2 WLR 692; [2003] 2 All ER 113, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 177.
  LICENSING — Human fertilisation — Embryo
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  LICENSING — Human fertilisation — Embryo — Statutory licensing authority regulating creation of embryos outside body — Definition of embryo as “live human embryo where fertilisation is complete” — Creation of embryo by cell nuclear replacement using unfertilised human eggs — Whether within statutory definition — Whether licence prohibited — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, ss 1(1), 3(3)(d)

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• R (Morgan Grenfell & Co Ltd) v Special Comr of Income Tax

  02 Mar 2001 [2003] 1 AC 563; [2002] 2 WLR 255; [2001] 1 All ER 535; [2000] STC 965, DC

  02 Mar 2001 [2001] EWCA Civ 329; [2003] 1 AC 563; [2002] 2 WLR 255; [2002] 1 All ER 776; [2001] STC 497, CA

  16 May 2002 [2002] UKHL 21; [2003] 1 AC 563; [2002] 2 WLR 1299; [2002] 3 All ER 1; [2002] STC 786, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 10 positive; 4 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 134.
  PRACTICE — Discovery — Privilege
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  PRACTICE — Discovery — Privilege — Legal professional privilege — Tax inspector's investigation — Inspector seeking special commissioner's consent to give notice requiring taxpayer to disclose documents attracting legal professional privilege — Commissioner giving consent — Whether statutory disclosure regime excluding legal professional privilege — Whether inspector entitled to give notice in respect of privileged documents — Whether taxpayer entitled to oral hearing before commissioner — Taxes Management Act 1970, s 20(1) (as substituted by Finance Act 1976, s 57(1), Sch 6 and amended by Finance Act 1989, s 142) — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 8

  6 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Bellinger v Bellinger

  17 Jul 2001 (Attorney General intervening) [2001] EWCA Civ 1140; [2002] Fam 150; [2002] 2 WLR 411; [2002] 1 All ER 311; [2001] 2 FLR 1048, CA

  10 Apr 2003 (Lord Chancellor intervening) [2003] UKHL 21; [2003] 2 AC 467; [2003] 2 WLR 1174; [2003] 2 All ER 593; [2003] 1 FLR 1043, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 61.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Nullity — Capacity to marry
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Nullity — Capacity to marry — Gender — Wife correctly registered as male at birth — Thereafter living as female and undergoing gender reassignment surgery — Wife seeking declaration of validity of marriage — Whether female or male for purposes of marriage — Whether violations of right to respect for private and family life and right to marry — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 11(c) — Human Rights Act 1998, s 4, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 12

  5 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• R v Lyons (Isidore) (R v Parnes, R v Ronson)

  [2001] EWCA Crim 2860; [2002] 2 Cr App R 210, CA

  14 Nov 2002 [2002] UKHL 44; [2003] 1 AC 976; [2002] 3 WLR 1562; [2002] 4 All ER 1028; [2003] 1 Cr App R 359, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 108.
  CRIME — Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) — Reference by Criminal Cases Review Commission
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  CRIME — Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) — Reference by Criminal Cases Review Commission — Reliance on judgment of European Court of Human Rights — Defendants convicted after trial where prosecution lawfully adducing evidence of answers given by defendants under compulsion — Convictions upheld on appeal — Subsequent ruling by Court of Human Rights that admission of answers contrary to Convention right to fair trial — Referral back to Court of Appeal — Whether obligation to apply ruling when reviewing safety of conviction — Companies Act 1985, s 434(5) — Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1953), art 6(1)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 International Agreement considered
• Attorney General v Punch Ltd

  23 Mar 2001 [2001] EWCA Civ 403; [2001] QB 1028; [2001] 2 WLR 1713; [2001] 2 All ER 655, CA

  23 Oct 2001 (pet all) [2002] UKHL 50; [2003] 1 AC 1046; [2001] 1 WLR 2111; [2003] 2 WLR 49; [2003] 1 All ER 289, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 49.
  CONTEMPT OF COURT — Pending proceedings — Third party
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  CONTEMPT OF COURT — Pending proceedings — Third party — Action to preserve confidential information — Interlocutory injunction prohibiting publication pending trial — Third party knowingly publishing information specified in injunction — Whether actus reus of contempt committed — Whether third party having necessary mens rea — Whether contempt of court

  5 Case(s) considered
• South Bucks District Council v Porter (Chichester District Council v Searle, Hertsmere Borough Council v Harty, Wrexham County Borough Council v Berry)

  12 Oct 2001 [2001] EWCA Civ 1549; [2002] 1 WLR 1359; [2002] 1 All ER 425; [2002] LGR 443, CA

  22 May 2003 [2003] UKHL 26; [2003] 2 AC 558; [2003] 2 WLR 1547; [2003] 3 All ER 1; [2003] LGR 449, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 1 neutral; 3 negative. Subsequent citations: 119.
  PLANNING — Planning control — Breach
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  PLANNING — Planning control — Breach — Local authority's application for injunction — Gipsies occupying mobile homes on own land in breach of planning control — Whether court obliged to consider likely effect of injunction and any penalties for infringement on gipsies' right to respect for home and family life — Whether environmental considerations outweighing gipsies' human rights — Town and Country Planning Act 1990, s 187B (as inserted by Planning and Compensation Act 1991, s 3) — Human Rights Act 1998, s 6(1), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8

  7 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• R (McCann) v Crown Court at Manchester (Clingham v Kensington and Chelsea Royal London Borough Council)

  22 Nov 2000 [2001] 1 WLR 358, DC

  01 Mar 2001 [2001] EWCA Civ 281; [2001] 1 WLR 1084; [2001] 4 All ER 264, CA

  25 Apr 2002 (pet all) [2002] UKHL 39; [2003] 1 AC 787; [2002] 1 WLR 1551; [2002] 3 WLR 1313; [2002] 4 All ER 593; [2003] LGR 57; [2003] 1 Cr App R 419, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 6 positive; 8 neutral; 4 negative. Subsequent citations: 168.
  CRIME — Crime and disorder — Anti-social behaviour order
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  CRIME — Crime and disorder — Anti-social behaviour order — Applications for anti-social behaviour orders relying on hearsay evidence — Whether proceedings civil or criminal — Whether hearsay evidence admissible — Whether criminal standard of proof to be satisfied — Crime and Disorder Act 1998, s 1 — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 6

  8 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd (Babcock International Ltd v National Grid Co plc, Dyson v Leeds City Council, Fox v Spousal (Midlands) Ltd, Matthews v Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers (1978) Ltd, Pendleton v Stone & Webster Engineering Ltd)

  11 Dec 2001 [2001] EWCA Civ 1881; [2002] 1 WLR 1052; [2002] ICR 412, CA

  20 Jun 2002 [2002] UKHL 22; [2003] 1 AC 32; [2002] 3 WLR 89; [2002] ICR 798; [2002] 3 All ER 305, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 8 positive; 7 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 116.
  NEGLIGENCE — Causation — Asbestos exposure

  OCCUPIERS' LIABILITY — Independent contractor — Contractor carrying out work on occupier's premise
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  NEGLIGENCE — Causation — Asbestos exposure — Claimants developing mesothelioma after exposure to asbestos in more than one employment — Inhalation of single or many asbestos fibres equally probable trigger of disease — Claimants unable to establish which employment causing mesothelioma — Whether any employer liable — Whether claimant suffering other asbestos-related damage entitled to provisional damages for risk of developing mesothelioma — County Courts Act 1984, s 51(1) — CPR r 41.2(2)

  OCCUPIERS' LIABILITY — Independent contractor — Contractor carrying out work on occupier's premise — Contractor's employee contracting mesothelioma from asbestos dust generated by activities of contractors' employees — Whether occupier under duty of care to contractor's employees — Occupiers' Liability Act 1957, s 2

  7 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered