Results: 65

• R v W (M)

  02 Mar 2010 [2010] EWCA Crim 372; [2010] QB 787; [2010] 3 WLR 165; [2010] 1 Cr App R 421; [2010] WLR (D) 61, CA

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  CRIME — Common law offence — Misconduct in public office
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  CRIME — Common law offence — Misconduct in public office — Police officer incurring personal expenditure on publicly funded credit card charged with misconduct in public office — Elements of offence — Whether dishonesty essential ingredient of offence

  2 Case(s) considered

• Secretary of State for the Home Department v GG

  23 Jul 2009 [2009] EWCA Civ 786; [2010] QB 585; [2010] 2 WLR 731; [2010] 1 All ER 721; [2009] WLR (D) 259, CA

  Subsequent citations: 15.
  TERRORISM — Control order — Obligations
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  TERRORISM — Control order — Obligations — General statutory power allowing Home Secretary to include in control order any obligation necessary for prevention of criminal activity — Whether sufficient to allow abrogation of fundamental right to personal liberty — Whether power to abrogate right implied by specific provisions elsewhere in statute — Obligation in control order requiring controlee to submit to any personal search within home — Whether lawful — Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, s 1(3)(4)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Scopelight Ltd v Chief Constable of Northumbria Police Force

  07 May 2009 [2009] EWHC 958 (QB); [2009] 2 Cr App R 365, QBD

  05 Nov 2009 [2009] EWCA Civ 1156; [2010] QB 438; [2010] 2 WLR 1138; [2010] 2 All ER 431; [2010] 1 Cr App R 264; [2009] WLR (D) 317, CA

  Subsequent citations: 11.
  POLICE — Powers — Detention of evidence

  POLICE — Search, right of — Retention of seized property
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  POLICE — Powers — Detention of evidence — Seizure of evidence — Police searching premises pursuant to search warrant — Property seized — Crown Prosecution Service deciding not to prosecute — Private company proposing to bring private prosecution — Whether police entitled to retain property lawfully seized where private prosecution being contemplated — Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, s 22(2)

  POLICE — Search, right of — Retention of seized property — Police investigating suspected offences seizing property during execution of warrant — Crown Prosecution Service subsequently deciding not to prosecute — Private commercial organisation wishing to bring private prosecution — Whether police entitled to retain seized property — Whether retention “necessary in all the circumstances” — Whether decision of Crown Prosecution Service determinative — Guidance as to relevant circumstances — Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, s 22(1)(2)(a)

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• Ajinomoto Sweeteners Europe SAS v Asda Stores Ltd

  15 Jul 2009 [2009] EWHC 1717 (QB); [2010] QB 204; [2009] 3 WLR 1149; [2010] 2 All ER 311, QBD

  02 Jun 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 609; [2011] QB 497; [2011] 2 WLR 91; [2010] 4 All ER 1029; [2010] WLR (D) 144, CA

  Subsequent citations: 14.
  DEFAMATION — Malicious falsehood — Single meaning rule
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  DEFAMATION — Malicious falsehood — Single meaning rule — Claimant bringing action for malicious falsehood advancing alternative meanings for words complained of — Whether rule that words capable of bearing only one natural and ordinary meaning applying — Words reasonably capable of bearing allegedly false meaning and also meaning not alleged to be false — Whether court required to adopt meaning not alleged to be false

  DEFAMATION — Malicious falsehood — Single meaning rule — Claimant bringing action for malicious falsehood advancing alternative meanings for words complained of — Whether rule that words capable of bearing only one natural and ordinary meaning applying

  4 Case(s) considered
• R (Electoral Commission) v City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court

  22 Jan 2009 [2009] EWHC 78 (Admin), QBD (Walker J )

  19 Oct 2009 [2009] EWCA Civ 1078; [2010] QB 298; [2010] 2 WLR 873; [2010] 1 All ER 1167; [2009] WLR (D) 299, CA (Waller, Goldring LJJ, Sir Paul Kennedy)

  29 Jul 2010 [2010] UKSC 40; [2011] 1 AC 496; [2010] 3 WLR 705; [2011] 1 All ER 1; [2010] WLR (D) 211; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers PSC, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Mance, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 8.
  POLITICAL PARTY — Donation to registered political party — Forfeiture of impermissible donation
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  POLITICAL PARTY — Donation to registered political party — Forfeiture of impermissible donation — Permissible donor “individual registered in an electoral register” — Individual making donations to registered political party when entitled to be but not registered in electoral register — Political party failing to check whether individual permissible donor and to return impermissible donations — Electoral Commission seeking forfeiture of all donations made by individual when donor not permissible — Magistrates' court ordering forfeiture only of impermissible donations made after political party aware donor not on electoral register — Whether magistrates' court entitled to refuse forfeiture of all impermissible donations — Proper approach to exercise of court's discretion to grant forfeiture — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, ss 54, 56(1)(2), 58(2)

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• R v K (A)

  28 Jul 2009 [2009] EWCA Crim 1640; [2010] QB 343; [2010] 2 WLR 905; [2010] 2 All ER 509; [2009] STC 2553; [2010] 1 Cr App R 44; [2010] 1 FLR 807; [2009] WLR (D) 269, CA (Moore-Bick LJ, Holman J, Rafferty J)

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  CRIME — Evidence — Admissibility
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  CRIME — Evidence — Admissibility — Defendant obliged in matrimonial ancillary relief proceedings to disclose information about income and assets — Information so disclosed tending to show tax evasion — Defendant charged with cheating public revenue — Whether defendant had been entitled in ancillary relief proceedings to invoke privilege against self-incrimination — Whether information disclosed under compulsion — Whether admissible against defendant in criminal proceedings — Whether admission of information in criminal proceedings infringing Convention right to fair trial — Whether statements made in course of “without prejudice” discussions admissible against defendant at criminal trial — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, ss 23–25 (as substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984, s 3) — Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, s 78 — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 6 — Criminal Justice Act 2003, s 118 — Family Proceedings Rules 1991

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  4 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• R (Adams) v Secretary of State for Justice (In re McCartney, In re MacDermott)

  04 Feb 2009 [2009] EWHC 156 (Admin), DC (Maurice Kay LJ, Simon J)

  27 Nov 2009 [2009] EWCA Civ 1291; [2010] QB 460; [2010] 3 WLR 63; [2010] 1 Cr App R 25; [2009] WLR (D) 350, CA (Waller, Dyson, Lloyd LJJ)

  11 May 2011 (JUSTICE intervening) [2011] UKSC 18; [2012] 1 AC 48; [2011] 2 WLR 1180; [2011] 3 All ER 261; [2011] WLR (D) 155; Case details, SC(E & NI) (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers PSC, Lord Judge CJ, Lord Hope of Craighead DPSC, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 24.
  CRIME — Miscarriage of justice — Statutory compensation
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  CRIME — Miscarriage of justice — Statutory compensation — Court of Appeal quashing convictions on ground of fresh evidence discrediting prosecution — Claimants seeking compensation on basis of newly discovered facts showing miscarriage of justice — Whether facts giving rise to miscarriage of justice — Criminal Justice Act 1988, s 133(1) — Human Rights Act 1988, Sch 1, Pt I, art 6.2

  CRIME — Miscarriage of justice — Statutory compensation — Court of Appeal quashing conviction on ground that legal representatives' failure to discover and deploy evidence made available by prosecution rendering conviction unsafe — Claimant seeking compensation on basis of new or newly discovered facts showing miscarriage of justice — Whether fact known to legal representatives at time of trial or in-time appeal capable of being “new or newly discovered fact” — Whether failures by legal representatives giving rise to “miscarriage of justice” — Whether claimant entitled to compensation — Criminal Justice Act 1988, s 133(1)

  4 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

• HM Treasury v Information Comr

  21 Jul 2009 [2009] EWHC 1811 (Admin); [2010] QB 563; [2010] 2 WLR 931; [2010] 2 All ER 55; [2009] WLR (D) 251, QBD

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  FREEDOM OF INFORMATION — Disclosure — Duty to confirm or deny
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  FREEDOM OF INFORMATION — Disclosure — Duty to confirm or deny — Freedom of information request seeking disclosure of counsel's opinion supporting statement of compatibility of Bill with Convention rights — Constitutional convention that neither fact nor content of law officers’ advice to be disclosed outside Government without law officers’ consent — Whether Treasury to be required to confirm or deny whether it held law officers’ advice concerning statement of compatibility — Whether constitutional convention displaced or modified by freedom of information legislation — Whether and to what extent constitutional convention relevant consideration when weighing public interest for and against disclosure — Whether necessary to prove disclosure would cause prejudice before constitutional convention could be taken into account — Freedom of Information Act 2000 (as amended by Government of Wales Act 2006 (Consequential Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007, Sch 1, para 81(2)), ss 1(1)(a), 2(1)(b), 35(1)(c)(3)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• R v Nelson (R v Pathak, R v Paulet)

  28 Jul 2009 [2009] EWCA Crim 1573; [2010] QB 678; [2010] 2 WLR 788; [2010] 4 All ER 666; [2010] 1 Cr App R (S) 82; [2009] WLR (D) 266, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 7.
  CRIME — Sentence — Confiscation order
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  CRIME — Sentence — Confiscation order — Crown initiating confiscation proceedings to recover defendant's benefit from crime — Statutory conditions for making order met — Judge staying proceedings as abuse of process on basis that would produce oppressive result — Whether Court of Appeal having jurisdiction to entertain prosecution appeal — Whether discretion to stay for abuse of process confiscation proceedings properly brought — Whether confiscation order operating as fine where defendant gaining no net profit — Exercise of power to make confiscation order where civil proceedings instituted to recover proceeds of crime — Guidance as to exercise of prosecutorial discretion to bring or discontinue confiscation proceedings — Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, ss 6, 7(3), 31(2)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Sienkiewicz v Greif (UK) Ltd (Willmore v Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council)

  06 Nov 2009 [2009] EWCA Civ 1159; [2010] QB 370; [2010] 2 WLR 951; [2009] WLR (D) 321; The Times, 13 November 2009, CA (Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony JSC, Scott Baker, Smith LJJ)

  09 Mar 2011 [2011] UKSC 10; [2011] 2 AC 229; [2011] 2 WLR 523; [2011] ICR 391; [2011] 2 All ER 857; (2011) 119 BMLR 54; [2011] PIQR P11; [2011] WLR (D) 77; The Times, 10 March 2011; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers PSC, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Mance, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Lord Dyson JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 43.
  NEGLIGENCE — Causation — Asbestos exposure
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  NEGLIGENCE — Causation — Asbestos exposure — Deceased developing mesothelioma after tortious occupational and non-tortious environmental exposure to asbestos dust — Whether necessary to establish occupational exposure more than doubling risk of contracting disease — Whether sufficient to show occupational exposure material contribution to risk of developing disease — Appropriate test of causation — Compensation Act 2006, s 3

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered