Results: 45

• Peninsula Securities Ltd v Dunnes Stores (Bangor) Ltd

  09 Feb 2018 [2018] NICA 7, CA (NI) (Stephens LJ, Sir Ronald Weatherup and Sir Richard McLaughlin)

  31 Jul 2018 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given

  19 Aug 2020 [2020] UKSC 36; [2021] AC 1014; [2020] 3 WLR 521; [2021] 1 All ER 1; [2021] 1 All ER (Comm) 395; [2020] WLR (D) 482, SC(NI) (Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lady Arden, Lord Kitchin JJSC, Lord Wilson, Lord Carnwath)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 5.
  RESTRAINT OF TRADE — Shopping centre — Restrictive covenant
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  RESTRAINT OF TRADE — Shopping centre — Restrictive covenant — Freeholder leasing part of shopping centre to lessee retailer — Freeholder covenanting not to permit any other major store to be built in centre in competition with lessee — Whether covenant engaging doctrine against restraint of trade

  5 Case(s) considered

• Triple Point Technology Inc v PTT Public Co Ltd

  23 Aug 2017 [2017] EWHC 2178 (TCC), QBD (Jefford J)

  17 Jan 2018 [2018] EWHC 45 (TCC), QBD (Jefford J)

  05 Mar 2019 [2019] EWCA Civ 230; [2019] 1 WLR 3549; [2019] 3 All ER 767; [2019] 2 All ER (Comm) 810; [2019] WLR (D) 126, CA (Lewison, Floyd LJJ, Sir Rupert Jackson)

  06 Nov 2019 (appn all) [2019] 1 WLR 6748; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Reed DPSC, Lady Black, Lord Kitchin JJSC)

  16 Jul 2021 [2021] UKSC 29; [2021] AC 1148; [2021] 3 WLR 521; [2022] 3 All ER 601; [2022] 2 All ER (Comm) 93; [2021] WLR(D) 411, SC(E) (Lord Hodge DPSC, Lady Arden, Lord Sales, Lord Leggatt, Lord Burrows JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 8.
  CONTRACT — Construction — Liquidated damages clause
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  CONTRACT — Construction — Liquidated damages clause — Clause providing for liquidated damages for contractor’s delay in completing work — Employer terminating contract after dispute with contractor — Whether liquidated damages clause applying where contractor not completing work

  CONTRACT — Construction — Liquidated damages clause — Contract for supply of software system providing for liquidated damages for contractor’s delay in completing work — Contract also providing for cap on damages payable by contractor for breach of contract save in relation to “negligence” — Whether liquidated damages clause applying where contractor never completing work — Whether “negligence” exception to damages cap limited to tort of negligence or including negligent performance of contractual obligations — Whether damages cap applying to liquidated damages

  5 Case(s) considered

• R (Elgizouli) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (R (El Gizouli) v Secretary of State for the Home Department)

  18 Jan 2019 [2019] EWHC 60 (Admin); [2019] 1 WLR 3463; [2019] 3 All ER 598; [2019] WLR (D) 87, DC (Lord Burnett of Maldon CJ, Garnham J)

  25 Mar 2020 (Information Comr intervening) [2020] UKSC 10; [2020] 2 WLR 857; [2020] 3 All ER 1; [2020] WLR (D) 188; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Lady Black, Lord Lloyd-Jones JJSC, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Carnwath)

  Subsequent citations: 14.
  CRIME — Letters of request — Criminal investigation

  DATA PROTECTION — Personal data — Access to

  DATA PROTECTION — Personal data — Transfer of data to third countries
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  CRIME — Letters of request — Criminal investigation — United States requesting mutual legal assistance from United Kingdom in relation to criminal investigation of British citizen held in Syria — United States authorities seeking to prosecute individual in United States for offences carrying death penalty — Secretary of State agreeing to provide mutual legal assistance without requiring assurance that death penalty not to be used — Whether Secretary of State’s decision lawful — Whether common law prohibiting removal of individual outside jurisdiction to third country where death penalty might be imposed — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I

  DATA PROTECTION — Personal data — Access to — Secretary of State providing mutual legal assistance to United States authorities in relation to criminal investigation of British citizen held in Syria — Whether statute precluding processing of personal data for use in criminal proceedings which might lead to death penalty — Whether provision of information breaching data protection principles — Data Protection Act 2018 (c 12), Pt 3 — Parliament and Council Directive (EU) 2016/680 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, art 2(2)

  DATA PROTECTION — Personal data — Transfer of data to third countries — Secretary of State transferring suspect’s personal data to United States authorities for purposes of investigation into serious criminal offences — Secretary of State failing to obtain assurance that death penalty would not be used — Whether transfer meeting statutory requirements — Whether transfer based on there being “appropriate safeguards” — Whether transfer based on “special circumstances” — Data Protection Act 2018 (c 12), ss 73, 75, 76 — Parliament and Council Directive (EU) 2016/680, recital (71)

  CRIME — Letters of request — Criminal investigation — Secretary of State providing mutual legal assistance to United States authorities for purposes of investigation into serious criminal offences — Secretary of State failing to obtain assurance that death penalty would not be used — Whether provision of assistance lawful — Whether common law prohibiting provision of assistance which might facilitate death penalty

  9 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  2 EU Enactments considered

  2 Statutes considered

• Routier v Revenue and Customs Comrs (No 2) (Attorney General for Jersey intervening)

  17 Oct 2017 [2017] EWCA Civ 1584; [2018] 1 WLR 3013; [2018] PTSR 1063; [2018] STC 910; [2017] WTLR 1119; [2017] WLR (D) 672, CA (Arden LJ, Lord Briggs JSC and Green J)

  15 Mar 2018 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given

  16 Oct 2019 [2019] UKSC 43; [2021] AC 327; [2019] 3 WLR 757; [2019] PTSR 1924; [2020] 1 All ER 191; [2019] STC 2182; [2019] WLR (D) 588; Case details, SC(E) (Baroness Hale of Richmond PSC, Lord Reed DPSC, Lord Carnwath, Lord Hodge, Lord Lloyd-Jones JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  EUROPEAN UNION — Freedom of movement — Capital

  REVENUE — Inheritance tax — Charity
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  EUROPEAN UNION — Freedom of movement — Capital — Statutory exemption from inheritance tax not applying to gifts to charitable trusts not governed by law of United Kingdom — Whether restriction on exemption violating principle of free movement of capital — Whether Jersey part of United Kingdom for purposes of free movement of capital — Whether restriction justified — Whether restriction capable of being interpreted in conformity with European Union law — Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (c 51), s 23 — FEU Treaty, art 63FEU

  REVENUE — Inheritance tax — Charity — Disposition by will of property in United Kingdom to trust established in Jersey for charitable purposes — Trust governed by Jersey law at time of deceased’s death — Whether disposition to trust entitled to statutory exemption from inheritance tax — Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (c 51), s 23

  EUROPEAN UNION — Freedom of movement — Capital — Disposition by will of property in United Kingdom to trust established in Jersey for charitable purposes — Trust governed by Jersey law at time of deceased’s death — Whether disposition to trust entitled to statutory exemption from inheritance tax — Whether exemption restricted to trusts governed by law of United Kingdom and subject to jurisdiction of United Kingdom courts — Whether such restriction violating principle of free movement of capital under European Union law — Whether Jersey part of United Kingdom or third country for purposes of free movement of capital — Whether restriction on exemption justified — Whether restriction capable of being interpreted in conformity with EU law — Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (c 51), s 23(1)(6) — EC Treaty, art 56

  12 Case(s) considered

  2 EU Enactments considered

  1 Statute considered
• R (Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission (UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism intervening) (Begum v Secretary of State for the Home Department (UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism intervening), R (Begum) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism intervening))

  07 Feb 2020 [2020] HRLR 7; Judiciary (PDF), SIAC

  07 Feb 2020 [2020] EWHC 74 (Admin), QBD (Elisabeth Laing J)

  16 Jul 2020 [2020] EWCA Civ 918; [2020] 1 WLR 4267; [2020] WLR(D) 421, CA (King, Flaux, Singh LJJ)

  07 Sep 2020 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given Case details

  26 Feb 2021 [2021] UKSC 7; [2021] AC 765; [2021] 2 WLR 556; [2021] 2 All ER 1063; [2021] WLR(D) 131, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Sales JJSC, Lady Black)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 20.
  NATIONALITY — British citizenship — Deprivation
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  NATIONALITY — British citizenship — Deprivation — Secretary of State depriving claimant of British citizenship on national security grounds — Claimant appealing to Special Immigration Appeals Commission despite being outside United Kingdom when deprivation order made — Secretary of State refusing claimant’s application for leave to enter to pursue appeal — Whether appeal against deprivation order to be allowed if impossible for claimant to have fair and effective out-of-country appeal — Whether principles of fairness and justice requiring claimant to enter United Kingdom to pursue appeal — Whether Special Immigration Appeals Commission erring in applying judicial review principles on appeal — British Nationality Act 1981 (c 61), s 40A (as inserted by Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c 41), s 4(1) and amended by Transfer of Functions of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Order 2010 (SI 2010/21), art 5(1), Sch 1, para 7(a)) — Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997 (c 68), s 2B (as inserted by Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, s 4(2))

  NATIONALITY — British citizenship — Deprivation — Secretary of State depriving claimant of British citizenship on national security grounds — Claimant appealing to Special Immigration Appeals Commission despite being outside UK when deprivation order made — Secretary of State refusing claimant’s application for leave to enter to pursue appeal — Whether appeal against deprivation order to be allowed if impossible for claimant to have fair and effective out-of-country appeal — Whether principles of fairness and justice requiring claimant to enter UK to pursue appeal — Whether Commission erring in applying judicial review principles on appeal — British Nationality Act 1981 (c 61), ss 40, 40A — Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997 (c 68), ss 2, 2B

  17 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Halliburton Co v Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd (H v L)

  03 Feb 2017 [2017] EWHC 137 (Comm); [2017] 1 WLR 2280; [2017] 2 All ER (Comm) 1097; [2017] 1 Lloyd's Rep 553; [2017] WLR (D) 108, QBD (Popplewell J)

  19 Apr 2018 [2018] EWCA Civ 817; [2018] 1 WLR 3361; [2018] 3 All ER 709; [2018] 2 All ER (Comm) 819; [2018] 1 Lloyd's Rep 638; [2018] WLR (D) 229, CA (Sir Geoffrey Vos C, Simon and Hamblen LJJ)

  29 Nov 2018 (appn all) [2019] 1 WLR 1220, SC(E) (Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Lord Sumption, Lord Hodge JJSC)

  27 Nov 2020 (International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce intervening) [2020] UKSC 48; [2021] AC 1083; [2020] 3 WLR 1474; [2021] 2 All ER 1175; [2021] 1 Lloyd's Rep 1; [2020] WLR (D) 653, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lady Black, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lady Arden JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 13.
  ARBITRATION — Arbitrator — Bias

  ARBITRATION — Arbitrator — Removal
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  ARBITRATION — Arbitrator — Bias — Court appointing arbitrator in first arbitration following parties’ failure to agree appointment — Arbitrator subsequently accepting appointment in another arbitration as appointee of party to first arbitration — Appointment not disclosed to other party in first arbitration — Whether apparent bias — Whether arbitrator to be removed — Whether jurisdiction under Civil Procedure Rules to revoke or vary court’s appointment — Arbitration Act 1996 (c 23), ss 18, 24(1) — CPRr 3.1(7)

  ARBITRATION — Arbitrator — Bias — Court appointing arbitrator in first arbitration following parties’ failure to agree appointment — Arbitrator subsequently accepting appointment in another arbitration as appointee of party to first arbitration — Appointment not disclosed to other party to first arbitration — Whether apparent bias — Whether arbitrator to be removed — Arbitration Act 1996 (c 23), ss 18, 24(1)

  ARBITRATION — Arbitrator — Removal — Court-appointed arbitrator subsequently accepting appointment in other related arbitration as appointee of party to first arbitration — Later appointment not disclosed to other party to first arbitration — Application to remove arbitrator on ground circumstances giving rise to “justifiable doubts as to his impartiality” — Whether test same as common law test for apparent bias — Whether arbitrator under duty to disclose later appointment — Whether breach of such duty giving grounds for removal — Arbitration Act 1996 (c 23), ss 24(1)(a), 33

  14 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• XX v Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

  18 Sep 2017 [2017] EWHC 2318 (QB), QBD (Sir Robert Nelson)

  19 Dec 2018 [2018] EWCA Civ 2832; [2021] AC 275; [2019] 3 WLR 107; [2019] WLR(D) 10, CA (McCombe, King, Nicola Davies LJJ)

  26 Jun 2019 (appn all) [2019] 1 WLR 5472, SC(E) (Baroness Hale of Richmond PSC, Lord Reed DPSC, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore JSC)

  01 Apr 2020 [2020] UKSC 14; [2021] AC 275; [2020] 2 WLR 972; [2020] 4 All ER 93; [2020] WLR (D) 207; Case details, SC(E) (McCombe, King, Nicola Davies LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Loss of opportunity to have children
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  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Loss of opportunity to have children — Claimant unable to have children because of defendant’s negligence — Claimant seeking damages for costs of surrogacy arrangements — Commercial surrogacy arrangements unlawful in England — Whether damages for costs of non-commercial surrogacy arrangements using claimant’s or donor’s eggs recoverable — Whether contrary to public policy to award damages for costs of commercial surrogacy arrangements in California — Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 (c 49), s 2(1)

  8 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• R (Lancashire County Council) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  27 May 2016 [2016] EWHC 1238 (Admin), QBD (Ouseley J)

  12 Apr 2018 [2018] EWCA Civ 721; [2018] 2 P & CR 15, CA (Rupert Jackson, Lindblom, Thirlwall LJJ)

  31 Oct 2018 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given

  11 Dec 2019 [2019] UKSC 58; [2021] AC 194; [2020] 2 WLR 1; [2020] 2 All ER 925; [2020] WLR (D) 18, SC(E) (Lord Wilson, Lord Carnwath, Lady Black, Lady Arden, Lord Sales JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 7.
  COMMONS — Town or village green — Registration
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  COMMONS — Town or village green — Registration — Application to register land owned by public authority as town or village green — Whether registration incompatible with statutory purposes for which land held — Commons Act 2006 (c 26), s 15

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Henderson v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust

  19 Dec 2016 [2016] EWHC 3275 (QB); [2017] 1 WLR 2673; [2017] WLR (D) 5, QBD (Jay J)

  03 Aug 2018 [2018] EWCA Civ 1841; [2021] AC 563; [2018] 3 WLR 1651; [2018] WLR (D) 521, CA (Sir Terence Etherton MR, Ryder, Macur LJJ)

  18 Mar 2019 (appn all) [2019] 1 WLR 2955, SC(E) (Baroness Hale of Richmond PSC, Lord Hodge, Lord Briggs JJSC)

  30 Oct 2020 [2020] UKSC 43; [2021] AC 563; [2020] 3 WLR 1124; [2021] 2 All ER 257; [2020] WLR(D) 592, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lady Black, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lady Arden, Lord Kitchin, Lord Hamblen JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 2 neutral; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 12.
  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care — Community care provider

  PUBLIC POLICY — Illegality — Civil claim
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  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care — Community care provider — Mental health patient with history of paranoid schizophrenia discharged from hospital and placed in community care — Patient experiencing relapse and care provider failing to respond appropriately — Patient killing person and pleading guilty to manslaughter on ground of diminished responsibility — Patient claiming damages against care provider for breach of duty — Whether claim barred on grounds of illegality — Relevance of degree of patient’s personal responsibility for illegal action

  PUBLIC POLICY — Illegality — Civil claim — Mental health patient killing mother during psychotic episode — Patient pleading guilty to manslaughter on ground of diminished responsibility and detained in secure hospital — Patient bringing claim in negligence against care provider — Damages sought for losses consequent on manslaughter and patient’s subsequent detention — Whether claim barred on grounds of illegality — Whether claim barred where claimant lacking any significant responsibility for illegal act

  11 Case(s) considered

• Sutherland v HM Advocate for Scotland (Director of Public Prosecutions intervening)

  20 Sep 2019 [2019] HCJAC 61, HCJ (The Lord Justice General, Lord Brodie and Lord Malcolm)

  15 Jul 2020 (Director of Public Prosecutions intervening) [2020] UKSC 32; [2021] AC 427; [2020] 3 WLR 327; [2021] 1 All ER 271; [2020] 2 Cr App R 25; [2020] WLR (D) 412; The Times, 20 July 2020; Case details, SC(Sc) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Sales, Lord Leggatt JJSC)

  17 Nov 2021 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court refused

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  CRIME — Evidence — Admissibility
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  CRIME — Evidence — Admissibility — “Paedophile hunter” posing as child online — Defendant sending sexually explicit messages and images and making arrangements for meeting — Defendant charged with attempting sexual offences against child — Whether use of messages by prosecution interfering with defendant’s right to respect for private life and correspondence — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered