Results: 22

• R (KBR Inc) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office

  06 Sep 2018 [2018] EWHC 2368 (Admin); [2019] QB 675; [2019] 2 WLR 267; [2019] Lloyd's Rep FC 153; [2018] WLR (D) 562; [2019] Crim LR 50; [2018] ACD 128, DC (Gross LJ, Ouseley J)

  08 Apr 2019 (appn all) [2019] 1 WLR 3408, SC(E) ( Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Lord Briggs, Lord Sales JJSC)

  05 Feb 2021 [2021] UKSC 2; [2022] AC 519; [2021] 2 WLR 335; [2022] 1 All ER 97; [2021] 1 BCLC 651; [2021] WLR(D) 84, SC(E) (Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Briggs, Lady Arden, Lord Hamblen, Lord Stephens JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 7.
  COMPANY — Fraud — Investigation
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  COMPANY — Fraud — Investigation — Director of Serious Fraud Office having power to require production of documents for fraud investigation — Whether power having extraterritorial application in respect of foreign company — Criminal Justice Act 1987 (c 38), s 2(3)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• R (Majera) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Bail for Immigration Detainees intervening) (SM (Rwanda) v Secretary of State for the Home Department)

  11 Dec 2018 [2018] EWCA Civ 2770; [2019] INLR 384, CA (Underhill, Asplin and Haddon-Cave LJJ)

  23 Jun 2020 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given

  20 Oct 2021 [2021] UKSC 46; [2022] AC 461; [2021] 3 WLR 1075; [2022] 2 All ER 305; [2021] WLR(D) 538, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Sales, Lord Leggatt, Lord Burrows, Lady Rose JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 18.
  IMMIGRATION — Detained person — Bail

  IMMIGRATION — Detained person — Immigration bail
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  IMMIGRATION — Detained person — Bail

  IMMIGRATION — Detained person — Immigration bail — Court’s order granting bail to immigration detainee failing to include requirement mandated by statute — Whether order void and of no effect — Whether open to Secretary of State to act in manner inconsistent with order without first obtaining variation or setting aside of order — Immigration Act 1971 (c 77), Sch 2, para 22(1A), Sch 3, para 2(5)

  11 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Director of Public Prosecutions v Ziegler (Director of Public Prosecutions v Cooper)

  22 Jan 2019 [2019] EWHC 71 (Admin); [2020] QB 253; [2019] 2 WLR 1451; [2019] 1 Cr App R 32; [2019] WLR (D) 81, DC (Singh LJ, Farbey J)

  03 Dec 2019 (appn all) [2020] 1 WLR 730, SC(E) ( Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Lord Hodge, Lady Arden JJSC)

  25 Jun 2021 [2021] UKSC 23; [2022] AC 408; [2021] 3 WLR 179; [2021] 4 All ER 985; [2021] 2 Cr App R 19; The Times, 7 July 2021, SC(E) (Lord Hodge DPSC, Lady Arden, Lord Sales, Lord Hamblen, Lord Stephens JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 2 neutral; 1 negative; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 29.
  HUMAN RIGHTS — Freedom of expression and assembly — Interference with
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  HUMAN RIGHTS — Freedom of expression and assembly — Interference with — Defendants obstructing highway during demonstration against arms fair — Whether defendants acting “without lawful … excuse” if lawfully exercising Convention rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly — Whether interference with defendants’ Convention rights proportionate — Highways Act 1980 (c 66), s 137 (as amended by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c 48), ss 38, 46) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 10, 11

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Freedom of expression and assembly — Interference with — Defendants charged with obstructing highway during demonstration against arms fair — Whether defendants lawfully exercising Convention rights so as to have “lawful … excuse” — Whether interference with defendants’ Convention rights proportionate — Proper approach to proportionality by appellate court on appeal by way of case stated — Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c 43), s 111 — Highways Act 1980 (c 66), s 137 — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 10, 11

  11 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  3 Statutes considered
• Test Claimants in the FII Group Litigation v Revenue and Customs Comrs (formerly Inland Revenue Comrs)

  24 Nov 2016 [2016] EWCA Civ 1180; [2017] STC 696, CA (Sir Geoffrey Vos C, Underhill, David Richards LJJ)

  20 Nov 2020 [2020] UKSC 47; [2022] AC 1; [2020] 3 WLR 1369; [2021] 1 All ER 1001; [2020] STC 2387; [2020] WLR (D) 630, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Briggs, Lord Sales, Lord Hamblen JJSC, Lord Carnwath)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 36.
  REVENUE — Corporation tax — Advance corporation tax

  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Postponement of limitation period — Mistake
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  REVENUE — Corporation tax — Advance corporation tax

  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Postponement of limitation period — Mistake — Claimants claiming repayment of tax paid under mistake of law — Claimants contending that running of limitation postponed until mistake discovered or discoverable with reasonable diligence — Revenue conceding that postponement of limitation period available in actions for relief from consequences of mistake of law — Whether revenue barred from withdrawing concession on appeal on grounds of res judicata, estoppel or abuse of process — Whether postponement of limitation period applying to mistakes of law as well as fact — Proper approach to date on which claimant “could with reasonable diligence have discovered” mistake of law — Limitation Act 1980 (c 58), s 32(1)(c)

  13 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• Rossendale Borough Council v Hurstwood Properties (A) Ltd (Wigan Council v Property Alliance Group Ltd)

  30 Nov 2017 [2017] EWHC 3461 (Ch), Ch D (Judge Hodge QC)

  07 Mar 2019 [2019] EWCA Civ 364; [2019] 1 WLR 4567; [2019] 2 BCLC 591; [2019] WLR(D) 141, CA (David Richards, Henderson, Baker LJJ)

  05 Nov 2019 (appn all) [2019] 1 WLR 6659, SC(E) (Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Lord Carnwath, Lord Briggs JJSC)

  14 May 2021 [2021] UKSC 16; [2022] AC 690; [2021] 2 WLR 1125; [2022] 2 All ER 113; [2022] 1 All ER (Comm) 253; [2021] 2 BCLC 199; [2021] WLR(D) 286, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Briggs, Lord Kitchin, Lord Leggatt JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 23.
  RATING — Non-domestic rates — Unoccupied hereditament
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  RATING — Non-domestic rates — Unoccupied hereditament — Owners of unoccupied hereditaments seeking to avoid liability to non-domestic rates by leasing properties to companies which were then wound up or struck off register of companies — Whether companies becoming “owners” of hereditaments for purposes of rating statute — Whether court able to pierce corporate veil of companies — Whether statute to be given purposive interpretation — Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c 41), ss 45(1)(b), 65(1)

  RATING — Non-domestic rates — Unoccupied hereditament — Owners of unoccupied hereditaments seeking to avoid liability to non-domestic rates by leasing hereditaments to companies which were then wound up or struck off register of companies — Whether companies becoming “owners” of hereditaments for purposes of rating statute — Whether court able to pierce corporate veil of companies — Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c 41), ss 45(1), 65(1)

  11 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• Secretary of State for Health v Servier Laboratories Ltd

  02 Aug 2017 [2017] EWHC 2006 (Ch); [2017] 5 CMLR 17, Ch D (Roth J)

  12 Jul 2019 [2019] EWCA Civ 1160; [2020] Ch 717; [2019] 3 WLR 938; [2020] 2 All ER 514; [2019] WLR (D) 401, CA (Sir Terence Etherton MR, Longmore, McCombe LJJ)

  11 Mar 2020 (appn all) [2020] 1 WLR 2722, SC(E) (Lord Wilson, Lord Briggs, Lord Kitchin JJSC)

  02 Jul 2021 [2021] UKSC 24; [2022] AC 959; [2021] 3 WLR 370; [2022] 1 All ER 1; The Times, 13 July 2021, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Briggs, Lord Kitchin, Lord Sales, Lord Hamblen JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 8.
  TORT — Cause of action — Causing loss by unlawful means
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  TORT — Cause of action — Causing loss by unlawful means — Health authorities alleging proprietors and licensees of drug patent preventing sale of cheaper version of drug in United Kingdom by deceiving European Patent Office and English courts — No allegation that such unlawful conduct interfering with freedom of European Patent Office or English courts to deal with health authorities — Whether tort of causing loss by unlawful means made out — Whether essential ingredient of tort that defendant’s unlawful conduct interfered with third party’s liberty to deal with claimant

  TORT — Cause of action — Causing loss by unlawful means — Health authorities alleging proprietors and licensees of drug patent preventing sale of cheaper version of drug in United Kingdom by deceiving European Patent Office and English courts — No allegation that such unlawful conduct interfering with freedom of European Patent Office or English courts to deal with health authorities — Whether necessary element of tort that unlawful means interfered with third party’s freedom to deal with claimant

  7 Case(s) considered
• G v G (Secretary of State for the Home Department intervening)

  05 Jun 2020 [2020] EWHC 1886 (Fam), Fam D (Lieven J)

  15 Sep 2020 [2020] EWCA Civ 1185; [2022] AC 544; [2021] 2 WLR 705; [2021] 2 FLR 481; [2020] WLR (D) 505, CA (Hickinbottom, Moylan, Peter Jackson LJJ)

  15 Dec 2020 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given

  19 Mar 2021 [2021] UKSC 9; [2022] AC 544; [2021] 2 WLR 705; [2021] 4 All ER 113; [2021] 2 FLR 536, SC(E) (Hickinbottom, Moylan, Peter Jackson LJJ)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 22.
  CHILDREN — Custody rights — Breach
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  CHILDREN — Custody rights — Breach — Child habitually resident in South Africa wrongfully removed by mother to England — Mother applying for asylum in England and naming child as dependant — Father applying under Hague Convention for child’s return — Whether Hague Convention application to be stayed pending determination of asylum application — Whether child named as dependant on parent’s asylum application to be treated as making own asylum application — Whether court prevented from implementing return order pending determination of asylum application — Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (c 60), Sch 1, art 12 — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c 41), ss 78, 82, 104 — Immigration Rules, para 329 — Council Directive 2005/85/EC, arts 2(b), 7(1), 39

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Secretary of State for Health v Servier Laboratories Ltd (Welsh Ministers v Servier Laboratories Ltd, Scottish Ministers v Servier Laboratories Ltd)

  17 Apr 2019 [2019] EWHC 1004 (Ch); [2019] 5 CMLR 6, Ch D (Roth J)

  27 Jun 2019 [2019] EWCA Civ 1096; [2020] Ch 193; [2020] 2 WLR 149; [2020] 1 All ER 432; [2020] 1 All ER (Comm) 402; [2019] WLR (D) 366, CA (Longmore, Rose LJJ, Sir Stephen Richards)

  25 Jul 2019 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given

  06 Nov 2020 [2020] UKSC 44; [2022] AC 921; [2020] 3 WLR 1207; [2021] 2 All ER 667; [2021] 1 All ER (Comm) 1283; The Times, 20 November 2020, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Briggs, Lord Sales, Lord Hamblen JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE — Judgment — Res judicata

  EUROPEAN UNION — Res judicata — Judgment of General Court
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  EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE — Judgment — Res judicata — Claimants seeking damages in English court in respect of defendants’ anti-competitive conduct — European Commission giving decision in relation to defendants’ anti-competitive conduct — Part of decision subsequently annulled by General Court of the European Union — Whether General Court’s factual findings binding as res judicata in English proceedings

  EUROPEAN UNION — Res judicata — Judgment of General Court — Claimants seeking damages in English court in respect of defendants’ anti-competitive conduct — European Commission giving decision in relation to defendants’ anti-competitve conduct — Part of decision subsequently annulled by General Court of the European Union — Commission and defendants appealing against General Court’s decision — Whether General Court’s factual findings binding as res judicata in English proceedings

  9 Case(s) considered

• In re McQuillan (In re McGuigan, In re McKenna)

  19 Mar 2019 [2019] NICA 13; [2020] NI 583, CA (NI) (Morgan LCJ, Stephens LJ and Sir Paul Girvan)

  25 Aug 2020 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given

  15 Dec 2021 [2021] UKSC 55; [2022] AC 1063; [2022] 2 WLR 49; [2022] 3 All ER 439; [2021] WLR(D) 640, SC(NI) (Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Kitchin, Lord Sales, Lord Hamblen, Lord Leggatt, Lord Burrows JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  HUMAN RIGHTS — Life — Inhuman or degrading treatment
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  HUMAN RIGHTS — Life — Inhuman or degrading treatment — State’s duty to investigate — Inconclusive investigations in Northern Ireland into fatal shooting of woman in 1972 and use of interrogation techniques on detainees in 1971 — Requests for fresh investigations following emergence of new evidence over 40 years later — Whether Convention rights as enacted in domestic law imposing duty on Police Service of Northern Ireland to re-open investigations — Whether corresponding duty at common law or under statute — Whether Police Service of Northern Ireland having sufficient independence to secure effective investigations — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 6(1), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 2, 3 — Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (c 32), s 32

  11 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• ZXC v Bloomberg LP

  17 Apr 2019 [2019] EWHC 970 (QB); [2019] EMLR 20, QBD (Nicklin J)

  15 May 2020 [2020] EWCA Civ 611; [2021] QB 28; [2020] 3 WLR 838; [2020] WLR(D) 292, CA (Underhill, Bean, Simon LJJ)

  17 Dec 2020 (appn all) [2021] 1 WLR 991, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Sales, Lord Burrows JJSC)

  16 Feb 2022 [2022] UKSC 5; [2022] AC 1158; [2022] 2 WLR 424; [2022] 3 All ER 1; [2022] 2 Cr App R 2; [2022] WLR(D) 96; The Times, 3 March 2022, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Sales, Lord Hamblen, Lord Stephens JJSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; most recently considered: 2020. Subsequent citations: 29.
  CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION — Disclosure — Public interest

  CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION — Misuse of private information — Reasonable expectation of privacy
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  CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION — Disclosure — Public interest

  CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION — Misuse of private information — Reasonable expectation of privacy — Legal enforcement body sending confidential letter of request to foreign state as part of criminal investigation — Letter of request detailing enforcement body’s suspicions regarding claimant’s criminal conduct — Defendant acquiring letter of request and using information to publish article — Whether claimant having reasonable expectation of privacy in relation to fact or details of criminal investigation — Whether claimant’s right to privacy outweighed by defendant’s right to freedom of expression — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 10

  CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION — Misuse of private information — Reasonable expectation of privacy — Legal enforcement body sending confidential letter of request to foreign state as part of criminal investigation — Letter of request detailing enforcement body’s suspicions regarding claimant’s possible criminal conduct — Defendant acquiring letter of request and using information to publish article — Whether claimant having reasonable expectation of privacy in relation to fact and details of criminal investigation — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 10

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered