Results: 72

• Yukos Capital Sarl v OJSC Rosneft Oil Co (No 2)

  14 Jun 2011 [2011] EWHC 1461 (Comm); [2012] 1 All ER (Comm) 479; [2011] 2 Lloyd's Rep 443, QBD (Hamblen J)

  27 Jun 2012 [2012] EWCA Civ 855; [2014] QB 458; [2013] 3 WLR 1329; [2013] 1 All ER 223; [2013] 1 All ER (Comm) 327; [2012] 2 Lloyd's Rep 208; [2012] WLR (D) 186, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 44.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Sovereign immunity — Act of state

  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Issue estoppel
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Sovereign immunity — Act of state — Russian arbitration awards annulled by Russian court — Claimant seeking to enforce awards in England alleging that Russian court decisions procured by illicit state interference — Whether doctrine of act of state applying to judicial acts — Whether operating to bar claim

  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Issue estoppel — Russian arbitration awards annulled by Russian court — Dutch court holding Russian court decisions partial and dependent and refusing to recognise annulment — Claimant seeking to enforce awards in England alleging that Russian court decisions procured by illicit state interference — Whether Dutch decision determinative in England

  15 Case(s) considered

• Makudi v Baron Triesman of Tottenham

  01 Feb 2013 [2013] EWHC 142 (QB); [2013] CN 202, QBD (Tugendhat J)

  26 Feb 2014 [2014] EWCA Civ 179; [2014] QB 839; [2014] 2 WLR 1228; [2014] 3 All ER 36; [2014] WLR (D) 98, CA

  30 Oct 2014 (appn dis) [2014] 1 WLR 4207, SC(E)

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Striking out

  PARLIAMENT — Privilege — Proceedings in Parliament
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  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Striking out — Abuse of process — Defamation claim — Whether publications capable of bearing meanings attributed to them — Whether claims to be struck out

  PARLIAMENT — Privilege — Proceedings in Parliament — Defendant in evidence to parliamentary committee making defamatory statements about claimant — Defendant in response to committee’s request appearing before extra-parliamentary inquiry and repeating statements — Claimant bringing action in defamation and malicious falsehood in respect of repetition of statements outside of Parliament — Whether parliamentary privilege extending to repetition of defamatory statements — Whether action lying — Whether to be struck out — Bill of Rights 1689, art 9

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• R (Evans) v Attorney General

  09 Jul 2013 [2013] EWHC 1960 (Admin); [2014] QB 855; [2013] 3 WLR 1631; [2014] 1 All ER 23; [2013] WLR (D) 313, DC

  12 Mar 2014 [2014] EWCA Civ 254; [2014] QB 855; [2014] 2 WLR 1334; [2014] 3 All ER 682; [2014] WLR (D) 124, CA

  26 Mar 2015 (Campaign for Freedom of Information intervening) [2015] UKSC 21; [2015] AC 1787; [2015] 2 WLR 813; [2015] 4 All ER 395; [2015] WLR (D) 151; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 1 neutral; 2 negative; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 39.
  FREEDOM OF INFORMATION — Exempt information — Accountable person’s certificate
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  FREEDOM OF INFORMATION — Exempt information — Accountable person’s certificate — Upper Tribunal ordering partial disclosure of correspondence between Prince of Wales and government departments — Attorney General issuing certificate effectively overriding requirement for disclosure — Whether “reasonable grounds” justifying issue of certificate — Whether certification concerning environmental information permissible — Whether compatible with European Union law and treaty obligations on access to environmental information — Freedom of Information Act 2000, s 53(2) — Environmental Information Regulations 2004, reg 18 — Parliament and Council Directive 2003/4/EC, art 6 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, art 47 — Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (1998), art 9

  FREEDOM OF INFORMATION — Exempt information — Accountable person’s certificate — Upper Tribunal ordering partial disclosure of correspondence between Prince of Wales and government departments — Attorney General issuing certificate effectively overriding requirement for disclosure — Whether “reasonable grounds” justifying issue of certificate — Whether certification concerning environmental information compatible with EU law and treaty obligations on access to environmental information — Freedom of Information Act 2000, s 53(2) — Environmental Information Regulations 2004, reg 18 — Parliament and Council Directive 2003/4/EC, art 6 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, art 47 — Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (1998), art 9

  9 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 EU Enactments considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

  1 International Agreement considered

• Flame SA v Glory Wealth Shipping PTE Ltd

  22 Oct 2013 [2013] EWHC 3153 (Comm); [2014] QB 1080; [2014] 2 WLR 1405; [2014] 1 All ER (Comm) 1043; [2013] WLR (D) 400; [2013] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 653, QBD (Teare J)

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  DAMAGES — Measure of damages — Repudiatory breach

  SHIPPING — Charterparty — Construction
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  DAMAGES — Measure of damages — Repudiatory breach — Claimant accepting defendant’s repudiatory breach of contract — Whether claimant’s ability to fulfil contractual obligations absent repudiatory breach relevant to assessment of damages

  SHIPPING — Charterparty — Construction — Contract of affreightment providing "disponent owners" of ship "to be nominated motorship" to carry cargoes — Whether disponent owners obliged to provide ship by charter

  3 Case(s) considered
• R (Omar) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (R (Njoroge) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs)

  26 Jun 2012 [2012] EWHC 1737 (Admin); [2013] 1 All ER 161; [2012] WLR (D) 185; [2012] ACD 112, DC (Sir John Thomas P, Burnett J)

  27 Feb 2013 [2013] EWCA Civ 118; [2014] QB 112; [2013] 3 WLR 439; [2013] 3 All ER 95; [2013] WLR (D) 84; [2013] ACD 65, CA (Lord Judge CJ, Maurice Kay, Richards LJJ)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 3 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 18.
  PRACTICE — Disclosure — Action for

  PRACTICE — Judgment — Closed material procedure
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  PRACTICE — Disclosure — Action for — Claimants seeking order requiring Foreign Secretary to disclose information and evidence for use in foreign criminal proceedings — Whether existence of statutory regime excluding jurisdiction to make such order — Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003, s 13, Sch 1, para 5

  PRACTICE — Judgment — Closed material procedure — Judicial review claims heard pursuant to closed material procedure — Judgment containing closed annexes — Whether court empowered to require Secretary of State to file public interest immunity certificate in order to prevent publication of summary of annexes

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• R v Asmelash (Dawit)

  22 Feb 2013 [2013] EWCA Crim 157; [2014] QB 103; [2013] 3 WLR 1056; [2013] 1 Cr App R 449; [2013] WLR (D) 79; [2013] Crim LR 599, CA (Lord Judge LCJ, Rafferty LJ, Simon J)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  CRIME — Homicide — Loss of self-control
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  CRIME — Homicide — Loss of self-control — Defendant charged with murder after killing victim while affected by drink — Whether voluntary intoxication one of defendant’s “circumstances” so as to be capable of founding partial defence of loss of control — Coroners and Justice Act 2009, s 54(1)(c)(3)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• R (Newhaven Port & Properties Ltd) v East Sussex County Council

  21 Mar 2012 [2012] EWHC 647 (Admin); [2014] QB 186; [2012] 3 WLR 709; [2012] 3 All ER 1361; [2012] WLR (D) 94, QBD (Ouseley J)

  27 Mar 2013 [2013] EWCA Civ 276; [2014] QB 186; [2013] 3 WLR 1389; [2013] 4 All ER 677; [2013] WLR (D) 127, CA

  14 Jun 2013 (No 2) [2013] EWCA Civ 673; [2014] QB 282; [2013] 3 WLR 1433; [2013] 3 All ER 719; [2013] LGR 570; [2013] WLR (D) 234, CA

  17 Dec 2013 (appn all) [2014] 1 WLR 443, SC(E)

  17 Dec 2013 (appn all) (No 2) [2014] 1 WLR 443, SC(E)

  25 Feb 2015 [2015] UKSC 7; [2015] AC 1547; [2015] 2 WLR 601; [2015] 2 All ER 991; [2015] LGR 232; [2015] WLR (D) 109; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 26.
  COMMONS — Town or village green — Registration
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  COMMONS — Town or village green — Registration — Operational port land comprising tidal beach wholly submerged for part of day — Application to register as town or village green — Whether tidal beach capable of fulfilling statutory definition of town or village green — Whether user of land regulated by or in breach of byelaws capable of being "as of right" — Whether land registrable as town or village green if conflict between registration and statutory functions for which land held — Whether ability to apply for registration of land up to five years after cessation of user incompatible with Convention right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt II, art 1 — Commons Act 2006, s 15(4)

  COMMONS — Town or village green — Registration — Operational port land comprising tidal beach wholly submerged for part of day — Application to register as town or village green — Whether user of land regulated by or in breach of byelaws capable of being “as of right” — Whether land registrable as town or village green if registration inconsistent with statutory functions for which land held — Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847, ss 33, 83, 88 — Newhaven Harbour and Ouse Lower Navigation Act 1847, s 49 — Newhaven Harbour Improvement Act 1878, ss 2, 57 — Commons Act 2006, s 15(4) — Sealink (Transfer of Newhaven Harbour) Harbour Revision Order 1991, arts 10, 11

  20 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  7 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• R (F) v Director of Public Prosecutions

  24 Apr 2013 [2013] EWHC 945 (Admin); [2014] QB 581; [2014] 2 WLR 190; [2013] 2 Cr App R 228; [2013] WLR (D) 178, DC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 12.
  CRIME — Rape — Consent
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  CRIME — Rape — Consent — Claimant alleging that consent to sexual intercourse given on basis that man would withdraw penis before ejaculation — Man deliberately failing to withdraw prior to ejaculation contrary to claimant’s wishes — Whether claimant’s consent vitiated — Whether facts capable of giving rise to offence of rape — Whether Director of Public Prosecutions’ decision that claimant’s evidence insufficient to establish realistic prospect of conviction and to refuse to initiate prosecution flawed — Sexual Offences Act 2003, ss 1(1), 74

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• Sheffield City Council v Kenya Aid Programme (R (Kenya Aid Programme) v Sheffield Magistrates’ Court)

  22 Jan 2013 [2013] EWHC 54 (Admin); [2014] QB 62; [2013] 3 WLR 422; [2013] WLR (D) 23, DC (Treacy LJ, King J)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; most recently considered: 2016. Subsequent citations: 3.
  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Alternative remedy — Whether judicial review appropriate

  RATING — Non-domestic rates — Relief
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  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Alternative remedy — Whether judicial review appropriate — Appeal by case stated from rating liability order made by magistrates’ court — High Court decision on appeal by way of case stated in civil matter final — Whether parallel judicial review proceedings appropriate — Whether permission to proceed with judicial review claim to be given — Senior Courts Act 1981 (as amended by Access to Justice Act 1999, s 61 and Constitutional Reform Act 2005, s 40, Sch 9, para 36(4)), ss 18, 28A

  RATING — Non-domestic rates — Relief — Registered charity in rateable occupation of premises claiming to be entitled to mandatory charitable relief against non-domestic rates — Whether premises “wholly or mainly used for charitable purposes” — Whether relevant to consider extent or amount of actual use — Whether efficiency or necessity of use relevant considerations — Local Government Finance Act 1988, s 43(1)(6) (as amended by Local Government Act 2003, s 64(1))

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Revenue and Customs Comrs v Sunico ApS

  19 Apr 2013 [2013] EWHC 941 (Ch); [2013] CN 569, Ch D (Proudman J)

  12 Sep 2013 (Case C-49/12); EU:C:2013:545; [2014] QB 391; [2014] 2 WLR 335; [2013] 2 All ER (Comm) 1117; [2014] STC 94; [2013] WLR (D) 347, ECJ

  30 Jul 2014 [2014] EWCA Civ 1108; [2014] CN 1497, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 13.
  REVENUE — Value added tax — Fraud

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under Council Regulation — Scope of Regulation

  COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION) — Appeal — Permission to appeal
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  REVENUE — Value added tax — Fraud — Missing trader intra-Community VAT fraud in series of mobile phone purchase and sale transactions — Revenue bringing action for damages and interest for unlawful means conspiracy against parties to alleged fraud

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under Council Regulation — Scope of Regulation — “Civil and commercial matters” — Claimant public authority bringing proceedings in place where harmful event occurred against defendants domiciled in another member state — Claim based on tortious conspiracy to commit VAT fraud — Authority seeking attachment orders and payment of sum due corresponding to VAT in courts of state where defendants domiciled — Whether claim “civil and commercial matter” — Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001, art 1(1)

  COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION) — Appeal — Permission to appeal — Judge finding for claimant and ordering defendants to pay judgment sum — Defendants applying for permission to appeal — Whether permission to be given subject to judgment sum being paid — Whether execution of judgment to be stayed pending appeal

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 EU Enactment considered