Results: 70

• AMT Futures Ltd v Marzillier, Dr Meier & Dr Guntner Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH

  11 Apr 2014 [2014] EWHC 1085 (Comm); [2015] QB 699; [2015] 2 WLR 187; [2015] 1 All ER (Comm) 374; [2014] WLR (D) 182; [2014] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 349, QBD (Popplewell J)

  26 Feb 2015 [2015] EWCA Civ 143; [2015] QB 699; [2015] 3 WLR 282; [2016] 1 All ER (Comm) 486; [2015] WLR (D) 95, CA

  28 Jul 2015 (appn all) [2015] 1 WLR 4935, SC(E)

  02 Feb 2016 (appn all) [2016] 1 WLR 1159, SC(E)

  01 Mar 2017 [2017] UKSC 13; [2018] AC 439; [2017] 2 WLR 853; [2017] 4 All ER 382; [2017] 2 All ER (Comm) 1041; [2017] WLR (D) 154; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury PSC, Lord Mance, Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, Lord Sumption, Lord Hodge JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 39.
  COSTS — Discretion of court — Order against successful party

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under European Union Regulation — Special jurisdiction
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  COSTS — Discretion of court — Order against successful party — Court of Appeal ordering part of costs of proceedings to be paid by successful party — Whether successful party to recover full costs — CPR r 44.2

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under European Union Regulation — Special jurisdiction — Matters relating to tort, delict or quasi-delict — Claimant entering into agreements with clients containing exclusive English jurisdiction clauses — German defendant allegedly inducing clients to breach clauses by bringing claims against claimant in Germany — Claimant bringing claim against defendant in England alleging tort of wrongfully inducing breach of contract — Nature of harm resulting from alleged tortious conduct — Whether “harmful event occurred” in England — Whether English court having jurisdiction — Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001, art 5(3)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• R (Lee-Hirons) v Secretary of State for Justice

  28 Jun 2013 [2013] EWHC 1784 (Admin); [2015] QB 385; [2015] 2 WLR 256; [2013] CN 1000, QBD (Dingemans J)

  01 May 2014 [2014] EWCA Civ 553; [2015] QB 385; [2015] 2 WLR 256; [2014] WLR (D) 183, CA

  24 Feb 2015 (appn all) [2015] 1 WLR 1434, SC(E)

  27 Jul 2016 [2016] UKSC 46; [2017] AC 52; [2016] 3 WLR 590; [2017] 3 All ER 97; [2016] WLR (D) 424; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent citations: 8.
  MENTAL DISORDER — Secretary of State’s powers — Restricted patient

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Liberty — Restricted patient
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  MENTAL DISORDER — Secretary of State’s powers — Restricted patient — Recall to hospital — Department of Health circular requiring provision of written reasons within 72 hours of readmission — Reasons given orally when warrant for recall executed — Whether adequate — Further oral reasons given over two weeks later — Written reasons for recall not given — Whether duty to provide written reasons when warrant executed — Whether recall lawful — Whether duty to give written reasons for recall — Whether failure to give written reasons rendering recall and subsequent detention unlawful — Whether practice of including brief reasons in warrant good — Mental Health Act 1983, s 42(3) — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 5.1, 5.2

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Liberty — Restricted patient — Patient recalled to hospital — Reasons for recall given orally when warrant for recall executed — Whether adequate — Further oral reasons given over two weeks later — Written reasons for recall not given — Whether failure to provide adequate reasons promptly after detention breaching Convention rights to liberty and to reasons for detention — Whether breaches rendering recall and detention unlawful — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 5.1, 5.2

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Liberty — Restricted patient — Patient recalled to hospital — Brief reasons for recall given orally when warrant executed — Further oral but not written reasons given 15 days later — Whether reasons given adequate — Whether breach of Convention right to reasons for detention — Whether rendering detention unlawful — Whether damages payable — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 8, Sch 1, Pt I, art 5.1, 5.2

  MENTAL DISORDER — Secretary of State’s powers — Restricted patient — Recall to hospital — Department of Health circular requiring provision of oral and written reasons within three days of readmission — Reasons given orally when warrant for recall executed — Further oral but not written reasons given 15 days later — Whether failure to provide reasons rendering detention unlawful — Whether damages payable — Mental Health Act 1983 (c 20), s 42(3) — Human Rights Act 1998, s 8, Sch 1, Pt I, art 5.1, 5.2

  9 Case(s) considered

  3 Statutes considered

• R (Reilly) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (No 2) (Jeffrey v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions)

  04 Jul 2014 [2014] EWHC 2182 (Admin); [2015] QB 573; [2015] 2 WLR 309; [2014] WLR (D) 420, QBD (Lang J)

  11 Feb 2015 [2015] UKUT 56 (AAC), UT

  28 Apr 2016 [2016] EWCA Civ 413; [2017] QB 657; [2016] 3 WLR 1641; [2016] WLR (D) 240, CA

  06 Dec 2016 (appn dis) [2017] 1 WLR 518, SC(E)

  Subsequent citations: 7.
  HUMAN RIGHTS — Fair trial — Determination of civil rights and obligations

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Peaceful enjoyment of possessions — Deprivation
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  HUMAN RIGHTS — Fair trial — Determination of civil rights and obligations — Statute enacted to validate retrospectively Regulations found to be invalid in ongoing judicial review proceedings — Whether impermissible interference in judicial determination of ongoing proceedings — Whether statute incompatible with claimants’ Convention rights to determination by court of civil rights and obligations — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 6.1 — Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013, s 1 — Jobseeker’s Allowance (Employment, Skills and Enterprise Scheme) Regulations 2011

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Peaceful enjoyment of possessions — Deprivation — Jobseeker’s allowance withheld from claimant for failure to participate in back to work scheme — Claimant appealing successfully in reliance on Court of Appeal decision that relevant Regulations ultra vires — Secretary of State promoting and Parliament enacting validating legislation reversing Court of Appeal’s decision — Whether Convention right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions engaged — Whether claimant deprived of “possession” — Whether validating legislation incompatible with claimant’s Convention right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt II, art 1 — Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013, s 1 — Jobseeker’s Allowance (Employment, Skills and Enterprise Scheme) Regulations 2011

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Fair trial — Determination of civil rights and obligations — Statute enacted to validate retrospectively Regulations found to be invalid in ongoing judicial review proceedings — Whether impermissible interference in judicial determination of ongoing proceedings — Whether statute incompatible with claimants’ Convention rights to determination by court of civil rights and obligations — Whether statute capable of being read down so as to have no effect in existing proceedings — Jobseekers Act 1995 (c 18), s 17A (as inserted by Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c 24), s 1(2)) — Human Rights Act 1988 (c42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 6.1 — Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013 (c 17), s 1 — Jobseeker’s Allowance (Employment, Skills and Enterprise Scheme) Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/917)

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Peaceful enjoyment of possessions — Deprivation — Jobseeker’s allowance withheld from claimant for failure to participate in back to work scheme — Claimant appealing successfully in reliance on Court of Appeal decision that relevant Regulations ultra vires — Secretary of State promoting and Parliament enacting validating legislation reversing Court of Appeal’s decision — Whether Convention right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions engaged — Whether claimant deprived of “possession” — Whether validating legislation incompatible with claimant’s Convention right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions — Human Rights Act 1988, Sch 1, Pt II, art 1 — Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013, s1 — Jobseeker’s Allowance (Employment, Skills and Enterprise Scheme) Regulations 2011

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  3 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• European Commission (supported by European Parliament) v Council of the European Union (supported by Czech Republic)

  28 Apr 2015 (Case C-28/12); EU:C:2015:282; [2015] QB 834; [2015] 3 WLR 647; [2015] WLR (D) 185, ECJ

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  EUROPEAN UNION — Council Decision — Validity

  EUROPEAN UNION — Action for annulment — Mixed international agreements
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  EUROPEAN UNION — Council Decision — Validity — European Union and member states concluding mixed international agreements with third parties — Council of European Union alone having competence to authorise signature and provisional application of international agreements — Council of European Union and governments of member states adopting hybrid decision authorising signature and provisional application of agreements — Whether decision valid — EU Treaty, art 13EU — FEU Treaty, art 218FEU

  EUROPEAN UNION — Action for annulment — Mixed international agreements — Decision authorising the signing of those agreements and providing for their provisional application — Decision of the Council and of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting within the Council — Autonomy of the EU legal order — Participation of the Member States in the procedure and decision provided for in Article 218 TFEU — Voting arrangements within the Council

  2 EU Enactments considered

• R (Littlejohns) v Devon County Council

  24 Mar 2014 [2015] EWHC 730 (Admin); [2015] QB 869; [2015] 3 WLR 862; [2015] WLR (D) 136, QBD (Lang J)

  06 May 2016 [2016] EWCA Civ 446; [2016] QB 1092; [2016] 3 WLR 743; [2016] WLR (D) 242, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  COMMONS — Common land — Registration
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  COMMONS — Common land — Registration — Claimants applying for registration of rights of common acquired by prescription over existing common land — Commons registration authority refusing application on basis of impermissibility of right of common being created after specified date over registered common land — Whether local authority erring — Whether breach of Convention right to enjoyment of possessions — Commons Registration Act 1965, s 1(2)(b) — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt II, art 1 — Commons Act 2006, Sch 3, para 2

  COMMONS — Common land — Registration — Claimants applying for registration of rights of common acquired by prescription over existing common land — Commons registration authority refusing application on basis of impermissibility of right of common being created after specified date over registered common land — Whether local authority erring — Commons Registration Act 1965, s 1(2)(b) — Commons Act 2006, Sch 3, para 2

  1 Case considered

  3 Statutes considered

• Shepherd v Federal Republic of Germany (Andre Lawrence Shepherd v Bundesrepublik Deutschland)

  26 Feb 2015 (Case C-472/13); [2015] QB 799; [2015] 3 WLR 611; [2015] WLR (D) 88; EU:C:2015:117, ECJ

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  EUROPEAN UNION — Persons needing international protection — Refugee status

  EUROPEAN UNION — Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice
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  EUROPEAN UNION — Persons needing international protection — Refugee status — Applicant member of United States armed forces refusing to serve in Iraq — Applicant applying for refugee status in Germany — Applicant facing criminal penalties and social ostracism if returned to United States — Whether constituting acts of persecution — Council Directive 2004/83/EC, art 9(2)(b)(c)(e)

  EUROPEAN UNION — Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Asylum — Directive 2004/83/EC — Article 92b, c, and e — Minimum standards for the qualification and status of third-country nationals or stateless persons as refugees — Conditions for obtaining refugee status — Acts of persecution — Criminal penalties for a member of the armed forces of the United States for refusing to serve in Iraq

  1 EU Enactment considered
• Caresse Navigation Ltd v Office National de l’Electricité (The Channel Ranger)

  14 Oct 2013 [2013] EWHC 3081 (Comm); [2014] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 337, QBD (Males J)

  21 Oct 2014 [2014] EWCA Civ 1366; [2015] QB 366; [2015] 2 WLR 43; [2015] 1 Lloyd's Rep 256; [2014] 2 CLC 851; [2014] WLR (D) 444, CA (Lord Dyson MR, Beatson LJ, Sir Robin Jacob)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 4.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction — Shipping contract

  SHIPPING — Contract — Construction
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction — Shipping contract — Whether bill of lading governed by English law — Whether incorporation of law and arbitration clause from charterparty into bill of lading — Whether English court having jurisdiction

  SHIPPING — Contract — Construction — Incorporation — Printed clause in bill of lading incorporating “all terms, and conditions … of the charterparty … including the law and arbitration clause” — Whether effective to incorporate into bill of lading English law and exclusive jurisdiction clause in charterparty

  11 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

• Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co (Europe) Ltd v Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance plc v Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, Lace International Ltd v Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime)

  12 Sep 2013 [2013] EWHC 2734 (Comm); [2015] QB 180; [2014] 3 WLR 576; [2014] 1 All ER 422; [2014] 1 All ER (Comm) 225; [2013] WLR (D) 356, QBD (Flaux J)

  20 May 2014 [2014] EWCA Civ 682; [2015] QB 180; [2014] 3 WLR 576; [2014] 4 All ER 540; [2014] 2 All ER (Comm) 785; [2014] WLR (D) 230, CA

  09 Dec 2014 (appn all) [2015] 1 WLR 311, SC(E)

  20 Apr 2016 [2016] UKSC 18; [2016] AC 1488; [2016] 2 WLR 1148; [2016] 4 All ER 283; [2016] 2 All ER (Comm) 483; [2016] WLR (D) 208; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CRIME — Riot — Damage
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  CRIME — Riot — Damage — Warehouse looted and destroyed during riots — Claim for statutory compensation for riot — Whether losses claimed arising in circumstances covered by legislation — Whether persons “riotously and tumultuously assembled together” — Whether compensation for consequential loss recoverable in principle — Riot (Damages) Act 1886 (as amended by Police Act 1964, s 63, Sch 9 and Police Act 1996, s 103(1), Sch 7, paras 9, 10), ss 2, 3(1) — Public Order Act 1986 (as amended by Merchant Shipping Act 1995, s 314(1), Sch 12), ss 1, 10(1)

  CRIME — Riot — Damage — Warehouse looted and destroyed during riots — Claim for statutory compensation for riot — Whether liability limited to physical damage to property — Whether compensation for consequential losses recoverable in principle — Riot (Damages) Act 1886 (as amended by Police Act 1964, s 63, Sch 9 and Police Act 1996, s 103(1), Sch 7, para 9), s 2(1)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• R (Revenue and Customs Comrs) v Liverpool Coroner

  21 May 2014 (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers intervening) [2014] EWHC 1586 (Admin); [2015] QB 481; [2014] 3 WLR 1660; [2014] WLR (D) 226, DC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 5.
  CORONER — Inquest — Notice to produce evidence

  STATUTE — Construction — Whether binding Crown
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  CORONER — Inquest — Notice to produce evidence — Coroner issuing statutory notices requiring Revenue and Customs Commissioners to provide occupational history of deceased — Whether coronial statute binding Crown by necessary implication — Whether commissioners entitled and required to comply with notices — Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005, s 18(1)(2) — Coroners and Justice Act 2009, s 32, Sch 5

  STATUTE — Construction — Whether binding Crown — Statute not expressly binding Crown — Whether binding Crown by necessary implication — Whether sufficient that legislation could not operate with reasonable efficiency if Crown not bound or that it had been enacted for public good — Whether necessary to show that statutory purpose would be wholly frustrated unless Crown bound — Whether different test applying in case involving Convention rights — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 2

  1 Case considered

  3 Statutes considered
• Cox v Ministry of Justice

  19 Feb 2014 [2014] EWCA Civ 132; [2015] QB 107; [2014] 3 WLR 1036; [2014] ICR 713; [2014] CN 248, CA

  31 Oct 2014 (appn all) [2014] 1 WLR 4208; [2015] ICR 70, SC(E)

  02 Mar 2016 [2016] UKSC 10; [2016] AC 660; [2016] 2 WLR 806; [2016] ICR 470; [2017] 1 All ER 1; [2016] WLR (D) 110; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 2 neutral; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 38.
  VICARIOUS LIABILITY — Relationship akin to employment — Prisoner
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  VICARIOUS LIABILITY — Relationship akin to employment — Prisoner — Prisoner paid to assist prison catering manager in moving kitchen supplies — Manager suffering injury when prisoner ignoring instruction — Whether Ministry of Justice vicariously liable for prisoner’s negligence

  5 Case(s) considered