Results: 60

• Lloyd v Google LLC

  08 Oct 2018 [2018] EWHC 2599 (QB); [2019] 1 WLR 1265; [2019] 1 All ER 740; [2018] WLR (D) 636, QBD (Warby J)

  02 Oct 2019 [2019] EWCA Civ 1599; [2020] QB 747; [2020] 2 WLR 484; [2020] 2 All ER 676; [2020] 2 All ER (Comm) 128; [2019] WLR (D) 547, CA (Dame Victoria Sharp P, Sir Geoffrey Vos C, Davis LJ)

  11 Mar 2020 (appn all) [2020] 1 WLR 2702; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Wilson, Lord Briggs, Lord Kitchin JJSC)

  10 Nov 2021 (Information Comr intervening) [2021] UKSC 50; [2021] 3 WLR 1268; [2022] 2 All ER 209; [2022] 1 All ER (Comm) 1107; The Times, 10 December 2021, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lady Arden, Lord Sales, Lord Leggatt, Lord Burrows JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 31.
  DATA PROTECTION — Personal data — Processing

  PRACTICE — Parties — Representative action
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  DATA PROTECTION — Personal data — Processing — Claimant seeking compensation for “damage” suffered by reason of contravention of statutory data protection requirements — Claimant applying to serve claim out of jurisdiction — Rules permitting service out where “damage” sustained in jurisdiction or resulting from act committed within jurisdiction — Whether claimant suffering “damage” by reason of non-consensual use of personal data — Data Protection Act 1998 (c 29), ss 4(4), 13 — CPR Practice Direction 6B, para 3.1(9)

  PRACTICE — Parties — Representative action — Whether court empowered to direct that person could not act as representative claimant absent application for such direction — Whether existence of common grievance against same defendant sufficient to satisfy “same interest” condition for bringing of representative claim — CPR r 19.6

  DATA PROTECTION — Personal data — Processing — Claimant seeking compensation for “damage” suffered by reason of contravention of statutory data protection requirements — Whether claimant suffering “damage” by reason of non-consensual use of personal data — Data Protection Act 1998 (c 29), s 13 — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8 — Parliament and Council Directive 95/46/EC, art 23(1) — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, art 8

  PRACTICE — Parties — Representative action — Whether existence of common grievance against same defendant sufficient to satisfy “same interest” condition for bringing representative claim — CPR r 19.6

  DATA PROTECTION — Personal data — Processing — Claimant seeking compensation for “damage” suffered by reason of contravention of statutory data protection requirements — Whether claimant suffering “damage” by reason of non-consensual use of personal data — Data Protection Act 1998 (c 29), s 13 — Parliament and Council Directive 95/46/EC, art 23(1)

  PRACTICE — Parties — Representative action — Guidance as to conduct of representative actions — CPR r 19.6

  11 Case(s) considered

  3 Words & Phrases considered

  2 EU Enactments considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• R (JJ Management Consulting LLP) v Revenue and Customs Comrs

  25 Jul 2019 [2019] EWHC 2006 (Admin); [2020] QB 619; [2020] 2 WLR 195; [2019] STC 1772; [2019] WLR (D) 493, QBD (Nugee J)

  22 Jun 2020 [2020] EWCA Civ 784; [2021] QB 257; [2020] 3 WLR 545; [2020] 4 All ER 212; [2020] STC 1422; [2020] WLR (D) 359, CA (Simler, Popplewell LJJ)

  14 May 2021 (appn dis) [2021] 1 WLR 3634, SC(E) (Lord Briggs, Lady Arden, Lord Hamblen JJSC)

  REVENUE — Income tax — Assessment
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  REVENUE — Income tax — Assessment — Revenue conducting informal investigation into taxpayers’ tax affairs — Whether revenue having power to conduct such investigation — Proper approach to judicial review of decision to conduct such investigation — Taxes Management Act 1970 (c 9), ss 1, 9A — Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c 11), ss 5, 9 — Finance Act 2008 (c 9), Sch 36

  3 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Kennedy v National Trust for Scotland

  17 Jan 2018 [2017] EWHC 3368 (QB); [2018] EMLR 13, QBD (Sir David Eady)

  16 Apr 2019 [2019] EWCA Civ 648; [2020] QB 663; [2020] 2 WLR 275; [2019] WLR (D) 282, CA (Sharp, Asplin LJJ, Sir Rupert Jackson)

  03 Dec 2019 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court refused

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 9.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction — Forum non conveniens

  PRACTICE — Claim form — Service
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction — Forum non conveniens — Claimant issuing proceedings in High Court against defendant domiciled in Scotland — Defendant seeking stay of proceedings on grounds Scotland more appropriate forum — Whether grant of stay on forum non conveniens grounds inconsistent with mandatory rule of jurisdiction under European Union law — Whether European Union law precluding grant of stay — Parliament and Council Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012, art 4(1)

  PRACTICE — Claim form — Service — Claimant posting claim form to defendant on penultimate day of six-month period for valid service — Defendant receiving claim form on following day — Whether claim form deemed to have arrived on second business day after posting — Whether deeming provision in rules having more limited effect — CPR r 6.14

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• MAD Atelier International BV v Manès

  28 Apr 2020 [2020] EWHC 1014 (Comm); [2020] QB 971; [2020] 3 WLR 631; [2020] WLR(D) 258, QBD (Bryan J)

  Subsequent citations: 14.
  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Issue estoppel
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  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Issue estoppel — Judgment of foreign court — French court giving judgment in claim between claimant and companies wholly owned by controlling shareholder — Claimant subsequently starting proceedings against controlling shareholder in English court — Whether claim to be struck out as abuse of process on basis French judgment giving rise to issue estoppels — Whether foreign judgment capable of giving rise to issue estoppel in English proceedings if foreign legal system having no doctrine of issue estoppel — Whether parties or their privies identical in both sets of proceedings where shareholder and wholly-owned companies respectively being defendants

  8 Case(s) considered

• B v IVF Hammersmith Ltd (R, third party)

  06 Oct 2017 [2017] EWHC 2438 (QB); [2020] QB 93; [2018] 2 WLR 1223; [2018] 2 FLR 173; [2017] WLR (D) 640, QBD (Jay J)

  17 Dec 2018 [2018] EWCA Civ 2803; [2020] QB 93; [2019] 2 WLR 1094; [2019] 2 All ER 1074; [2019] 1 FLR 1317; [2018] WLR (D) 766, CA (Jay J)

  17 Jul 2019 (appn dis) [2019] 1 WLR 5636, SC(E) (Baroness Hale of Richmond PSC, Lord Hodge, Lord Kitchin JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  DAMAGES — Contract — Breach
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  DAMAGES — Contract — Breach — Male claimant and woman together obtaining infertility treatment at defendant’s clinic — Embryos frozen and stored for future implantation — Following estrangement woman forging claimant’s written consent to thaw frozen embryo — Embryo implanted and woman giving birth to healthy child — Claim against defendant for breach of contractual obligation to obtain claimant’s consent to thawing and implantation of embryo — Whether damages recoverable for costs of child’s upbringing — Whether legal policy precluding award of such damages

  4 Case(s) considered

• MS (Somalia) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

  22 Mar 2018 [2018] UKUT 196 (IAC); [2018] Imm AR 1041, UT

  29 Jul 2019 [2019] EWCA Civ 1345; [2020] QB 364; [2019] 3 WLR 705; [2019] WLR (D) 434, CA (Underhill, Hamblen, Newey LJJ)

  30 Jun 2020 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court refused

  IMMIGRATION — Asylum — Refugee

  IMMIGRATION — Asylum — Deportation
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  IMMIGRATION — Asylum — Refugee — Claimant granted refugee status — Secretary of State ceasing refugee status and serving deportation order on ground that circumstances leading to grant of refugee status had ended — Whether Secretary of State able to rely on availability of internal relocation as reason for ceasing refugee status — Council Directive 2004/83/EC, art 11 — Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) (Cmd 9171) and (1967) (Cmnd 3906), art 1C(5)

  IMMIGRATION — Asylum — Deportation — Statutory presumption that person sentenced to at least two years’ imprisonment constituting danger to community — Whether presumption applying absent Secretary of State’s certificate — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c 41), s 72 (as amended by Immigration Act 2014 (c 22), s 73, Sch 9, para 31)

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 International Agreement considered
• R (Elan-Cane) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

  22 Jun 2018 [2018] EWHC 1530 (Admin); [2018] 1 WLR 5119; [2018] 4 All ER 519; [2018] WLR (D) 397, QBD (Jeremy Baker J)

  10 Mar 2020 [2020] EWCA Civ 363; [2020] QB 929; [2020] 3 WLR 386; [2021] 1 All ER 25; [2021] 1 FLR 302; [2020] WLR (D) 157; The Times, 27 May 2020, CA (King, Irwin, Henderson LJJ)

  10 Nov 2020 (appn all) [2021] 1 WLR 699; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Hodge DPSC, Lady Arden, Lord Sales JJSC)

  15 Dec 2021 [2021] UKSC 56; [2022] 2 WLR 133; [2022] 2 All ER 1; [2022] 1 FLR 1056; The Times, 12 January 2022, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lady Arden, Lord Sales, Lady Rose JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 10.
  HUMAN RIGHTS — Respect for private life — Gender identity

  COSTS — Order for costs — Costs capping order
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  HUMAN RIGHTS — Respect for private life — Gender identity — Passport Office’s policy to issue passports bearing either male or female indicator — Whether infringing Convention rights of persons identifying as non-gendered — Whether concept of “private life” encompassing identification as non-gendered — Whether positive obligation on state to permit non-gendered persons to apply for passport indicating non-gendered identity — Whether discrimination against non-gendered persons in enjoyment of Convention rights — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 14

  COSTS — Order for costs — Costs capping order — Parties to judicial review claim agreeing to cap costs — Judge dismissing claim but reducing costs payable by claimant on ground claimant making out part of claim — Judge applying reduction to capped costs rather than uncapped costs — Whether judge erring in not applying reduction to uncapped costs — Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c 2), ss 88, 89 — CPR r 44.2

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Respect for private life — Gender identity — Passport Office’s policy to issue passports bearing either male or female indicator — Whether infringing Convention rights of persons identifying as non-gendered — Whether concept of “private life” encompassing identification as non-gendered — Whether positive obligation on state to permit non-gendered persons to apply for passports indicating non-gendered identity — Whether discrimination against non-gendered persons in enjoyment of Convention rights — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 14

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Respect for private life — Gender identity — Policy of HM Passport Office to issue passports bearing either male or female indicator — Whether infringing Convention rights of persons identifying as non-gendered — Whether positive obligation on state to permit non-gendered persons to apply for passports indicating non-gendered identity — Whether discrimination against non-gendered persons in enjoyment of Convention rights — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42) Sch I, Pt I, arts 8, 14

  10 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument 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

• Roberts v Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (Allgemeines Krankenhaus Viersen GmbH, Part 20 defendant) (Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association - Forces Help v Allgemeines Krankenhaus Viersen GmbH)

  03 May 2019 [2019] EWHC 1104 (QB); [2020] QB 310; [2019] 3 WLR 343; [2019] WLR(D) 263, QBD (Soole J)

  17 Jul 2020 [2020] EWCA Civ 926; [2021] QB 859; [2021] 2 WLR 87; [2021] 2 All ER 449; [2021] 2 All ER (Comm) 497; [2020] WLR(D) 422, CA (David Richards, Irwin, Phillips LJJ)

  26 Jul 2021 (appn all) [2021] 1 WLR 4761, SC(E) (Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lady Arden, Lord Sales JJSC)

  02 Nov 2022 [2022] UKSC 29, SC(E)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Tort — Choice of law
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Tort — Choice of law — Claim for damages alleging defendants liable for injuries suffered by claimant during birth at hospital in Germany — Defendants claiming contribution from German hospital — Claim for contribution time-barred under German law but not under English statute — Whether statute having mandatory or overriding effect applying to all proceedings for contribution brought in England and Wales — Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978 (c 47), ss 1, 2(3), 7(3)

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Tort — Choice of law — Claim for damages alleging defendants liable for injuries suffered by claimant during birth at hospital in Germany — Defendants claiming contribution from German hospital — Claim for contribution time-barred under German law but not under English statute — Whether English statute having mandatory or overriding effect so as to apply to all proceedings for contribution brought in England and Wales — Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978 (c 47), ss 1, 7(3)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• R (Jet2.com Ltd) v Civil Aviation Authority (Law Society intervening)

  10 Dec 2018 [2018] EWHC 3364 (Admin); [2019] ACD 28, QBD (Morris J)

  28 Jan 2020 [2020] EWCA Civ 35; [2020] QB 1027; [2020] 2 WLR 1215; [2020] 4 All ER 374; [2020] WLR (D) 51, CA (Patten, Hickinbottom, Peter Jackson LJJ)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; most recently considered: 2022. Subsequent citations: 11.
  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Disclosure — Application

  PRACTICE — Disclosure — Legal professional privilege
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  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Disclosure — Application

  PRACTICE — Disclosure — Legal professional privilege — Defendant resisting disclosure of documents sent to multiple addressees on grounds subject to legal advice privilege — Whether documents privileged — Whether necessary to show that dominant purpose of communication to give or seek legal advice — Proper approach to multi-addressee communication

  6 Case(s) considered