Results: 52

• 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: 4.
  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 v Rowe

  15 Mar 2007 [2007] EWCA Crim 635; [2007] QB 975; [2007] 3 WLR 177; [2007] 3 All ER 36; [2007] 2 Cr App R (S) 92; [2007] 2 Cr App R 171, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 12.
  CRIME — Terrorism — Possessing article for terrorist purposes

  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) decision — How far binding
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  CRIME — Terrorism — Possessing article for terrorist purposes — Appellant in possession of notebook containing mortar instructions and substitution code listing components of explosives and locations — Whether notebook and code “articles” — Terrorism Act 2000, ss 57, 58

  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) decision — How far binding — Defendant relying on Court of Appeal authority to appeal against conviction — Whether authority decided per incuriam — Whether Court of Appeal bound to follow previous authority

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• R (Gentle) v Prime Minister

  12 Dec 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 1689; [2007] QB 689; [2007] 2 WLR 195, CA

  12 Jun 2007 (pet all) [2007] 1 WLR 1592, HL(E)

  19 Apr 2008 [2008] UKHL 20; [2008] AC 1356; [2008] 2 WLR 879; [2008] 3 All ER 1, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 44.
  HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to life — State's duty to investigate death
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  HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to life — State's duty to investigate death — Servicemen killed in Iraq during and following invasion by United Kingdom forces — Whether Convention obligation to protect right to life requiring independent inquiry into decision as to lawfulness of invasion of Iraq — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 2

  11 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Secretary of State for the Home Department v MB

  12 Apr 2006 [2006] EWHC 1000 (Admin), QBD (Sullivan J)

  01 Aug 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 1140; [2007] QB 415; [2006] 3 WLR 839, CA

  20 Jan 2007 (pet all) [2007] 1 WLR 397, HL(E)

  31 Oct 2007 [2007] UKHL 46; [2008] AC 440; [2007] 3 WLR 681; [2008] 1 All ER 657, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 7 positive; 2 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 129.
  HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to fair trial — Suspected international terrorist

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to liberty — Suspected international terrorist
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  HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to fair trial — Suspected international terrorist — Home Secretary issuing non-derogating control orders — Court hearing to consider whether Secretary of State's orders flawed — Justification for orders contained in closed material — Essence of closed material not disclosed to suspected terrorists — Whether statutory provisions for supervision by court compatible with right to fair hearing — Whether non-derogating control order constituting criminal charge — Extent of procedural protection required by Convention right — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 6 — Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, s 3, Sch, para 4

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to liberty — Suspected international terrorist — Home Secretary issuing non-derogating control order — Suspected terrorist required to remain within specified residence 14 hours per day and otherwise confined to small urban area — Prohibition on contact with other persons without prior authorisation — Whether obligations amounting to deprivation of liberty — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 5 — Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, s 2

  5 Case(s) considered

  4 Statutes considered

• Halpern v Halpern (No 2)

  04 Jul 2006 [2006] EWHC 1728 (Comm); [2007] QB 88; [2006] 3 WLR 946; [2006] 3 All ER 1139; [2006] 2 All ER (Comm) 484; [2006] 2 CLC 479; The Times, 18 July 2006, QBD (Nigel Teare QC)

  03 Apr 2007 [2007] EWCA Civ 291; [2008] QB 195; [2007] 3 WLR 849; [2007] 3 All ER 478; [2007] 2 All ER (Comm) 330; [2007] 2 Lloyd's Rep 56; [2007] 1 CLC 527; The Times, 14 May 2007, CA (Waller, Sedley and Carnwath LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 13.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Contract — Proper law

  CONTRACT — Rescission — Counter-restitution
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Contract — Proper law — Parties entering into compromise agreement — Defendants contending agreement governed by Jewish law — Whether non-national system of law capable of being governing law — Whether Jewish law applicable as aid to interpretation of agreement — Contracts (Applicable Law) Act, 1990, Sch 1, arts 1, 3, 4

  CONTRACT — Rescission — Counter-restitution — Inheritance dispute compromised by agreement — Claimants seeking damages for breach of agreement — Defendants pleading entitlement to avoid agreement for duress — Whether contract procured by duress could be avoided without providing counter-restitution

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• R (Bermingham) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office (Bermingham v Government of the United States of America)

  21 Feb 2006 [2006] EWHC 200 (Admin); [2007] QB 727; [2007] 2 WLR 635; [2006] 3 All ER 239, DC (Laws LJ and Ouseley J)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 166.
  EXTRADITION — Extradition offence — Jurisdiction
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  EXTRADITION — Extradition offence — Jurisdiction — Offence triable in either of two jurisdictions — Whether Director of Serious Fraud Office having to reach conclusion as to place of trial in order to protect defendant's Convention rights — Whether whole of conduct having to occur in category 2 territory for offences to be specified “extradition offences” — Whether jurisdiction to refuse extradition on ground of abuse of process — Whether extradition request disproportionate interference with Convention right to respect for privacy and family life — Criminal Justice Act 1987, s 1(3) — Human Rights Act 1998, s 6, Sch 1, Pt I, art 8 — Extradition Act 2003, s 137(2)

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  3 Statutes considered
• R (Wilson) v Wychavon District Council

  06 Feb 2007 [2007] EWCA Civ 52; [2007] QB 801; [2007] 2 WLR 798; [2007] LGR 540, CA

  12 Jun 2007 (pet dis) [2007] 1 WLR 1592, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 7.
  PLANNING — Planning control — Breach

  STATUTE — Construction — Hansard
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  PLANNING — Planning control — Breach — Gipsies to cease using own land for stationing caravans and human habitation — Local authority issuing stop notices — Stop notice provision applying to use of residential caravans but exempting dwelling houses — Indirect discrimination against gipsies and Irish travellers — Whether differential treatment justified — Whether statutory provision incompatible with Convention right — Town and Country Planning Act 1990, s 183(4) (as substituted by Planning and Compensation Act 1991, s 9) — Human Rights Act 1998, s 4, Sch 1, Pt I, art 14

  STATUTE — Construction — Hansard — Decisions on compatibility of legislation with Human Rights Convention — Whether permissible to seek assistance from reports of parliamentary debates

  6 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Svenska Petroleum Exploration AB v Government of the Republic of Lithuania (No 2)

  04 Nov 2005 [2005] EWHC 2437 (Comm); [2006] 1 All ER (Comm) 731; [2006] 1 Lloyd's Rep 181, QBD (Gloster J)

  13 Nov 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 1529; [2007] QB 886; [2007] 2 WLR 876; [2007] 1 All ER (Comm) 909; [2007] 1 Lloyd's Rep 193, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 5 neutral; 4 negative; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 26.
  INTERNATIONAL LAW — State immunity — Arbitration award
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  INTERNATIONAL LAW — State immunity — Arbitration award — Joint venture agreement between Lithuanian enterprise and Swedish oil company — Lithuanian Government legally and contractually bound by agreement — Company referring dispute to ICC arbitration in Denmark pursuant to arbitration clause in agreement — Tribunal accepting jurisdiction and making award in favour of company — Whether award enforceable against government in English courts — Whether government immune from suit — State Immunity Act 1978, s 9(1) — Arbitration Act 1996, s 101(2)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Office of Fair Trading v Lloyds TSB Bank plc

  12 Nov 2004 [2004] EWHC 2600 (Comm); [2005] 1 All ER 843; [2005] 1 All ER (Comm) 354, KBD

  22 Mar 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 268; [2007] QB 1; [2006] 3 WLR 452; [2006] 2 All ER 821; [2006] 1 All ER (Comm) 629, CA

  31 Oct 2007 [2007] UKHL 48; [2008] AC 316; [2007] 3 WLR 733; [2008] Bus LR 450; [2008] 1 All ER 205; [2008] 1 All ER (Comm) 113; [2008] 1 Lloyd's Rep 30, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 11.
  FAIR TRADING — Consumer credit — Agreement

  FAIR TRADING — Consumer credit — Credit card
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  FAIR TRADING — Consumer credit — Agreement — Regulated consumer credit agreement — Restricted use credit agreement — Debtor-creditor-supplier agreement — Liability of creditor for breaches by supplier — Liability of creditor in foreign transactions — Consumer Credit Act 1974, ss 11(1)(b), 12(1)(b), 75(1), 187(1)(2)(3)

  FAIR TRADING — Consumer credit — Credit card — Connected lender liability — Credit card transactions entered into under four-party structure of agreements involving debtor, creditor, supplier and merchant acquirer — Transactions entered into abroad — Claim by debtor for misrepresentation or breach of contract by supplier — Whether statutory remedy available against creditor where transaction entered into under four-party structure or abroad — Consumer Credit Act 1974, ss 9, 11, 12, 16, 75, 187

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Meadow v General Medical Council

  17 Feb 2006 [2006] EWHC 146 (Admin); [2006] 1 WLR 1452; [2006] 2 All ER 329; [2006] 1 FLR 1161, QBD

  26 Oct 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 1390; [2007] QB 462; [2007] 2 WLR 286; [2007] ICR 701; [2007] 1 All ER 1; [2007] 1 FLR 1398, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 150.
  EVIDENCE — Expert evidence — Immunity from suit

  MEDICAL PRACTITIONER — Discipline — “Serious professional misconduct”
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  EVIDENCE — Expert evidence — Immunity from suit — Disciplinary proceedings brought against medical practitioner for giving flawed but honest expert evidence — Whether witness's immunity from suit extending to disciplinary proceedings — Whether mistake constituting serious professional misconduct

  MEDICAL PRACTITIONER — Discipline — “Serious professional misconduct” — Whether confined to matters of clinical practice — Whether including conduct as expert witness in criminal proceedings — Whether appeal from disciplinary panel by way of review or rehearing — Medical Act 1983, s 40 — CPR r 52.11, Pt 52 Practice Direction, para 22.3

  10 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered