Results: 415

• Football Association Premier League Ltd v QC Leisure (Football Association Premier League Ltd v AV Station plc, Football Association Premier League Ltd v Madden)

  24 Jun 2008 [2008] EWHC 1411 (Ch); [2008] FSR 32, Ch D (Kitchin J )

  13 Nov 2008 [2008] EWHC 2897 (Ch); [2009] 1 WLR 1603, Ch D (Kitchin J)

  04 Oct 2011 (Joined cases C-403/08 and C-429/08); EU:C:2011:631; [2012] Bus LR 1321; [2012] All ER (EC) 629; [2011] WLR (D) 286, ECJ

  03 Feb 2012 (No 2) [2012] EWHC 108 (Ch); [2012] FSR 366, Ch D (Kitchin J)

  20 Dec 2012 [2012] EWCA Civ 1708; [2013] Bus LR 866; [2012] WLR (D) 392, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 4 neutral. Subsequent citations: 56.
  PRACTICE — Parties — Joinder

  EUROPEAN UNION — Free competition — Restriction or distortion of competition
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  PRACTICE — Parties — Joinder — Court referring questions to Court of Justice of the European Communities — Non-parties applying to be joined as claimants to national court proceedings in order to take part in preliminary reference procedure — Whether court having jurisdiction to join parties as claimants to national court proceedings for that purpose — Whether discretion to be exercised — CPR r 19.2(2)(a)

  EUROPEAN UNION — Free competition — Restriction or distortion of competition — Broadcasting — Claimant operating system of licences for broadcast of football matches — Each licensee granted exclusive right to broadcast matches in single member state — Each subscriber requiring decoder card to decrypt licensee’s satellite signal — Licensees prohibited under licence agreement from supplying decoder cards to persons outside member state for which licence granted — Businesses in United Kingdom using decoder cards obtained by subterfuge from foreign licensee — Whether cards “illicit device” — Whether national legislation prohibiting import, sale or use of foreign decoder cards contrary to freedom to provide services — Whether objective of protecting intellectual property rights justifying prohibition — Whether contractual prohibition on supplying decoder cards contrary to EU competition law — Whether transient fragments of protected works on television screen “acts of reproduction” — Whether acts exempt — Whether transmission of works “communication to the public” for which authorisation required — Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, ss 297, 298 — FEU Treaty, arts 56FEU, 101FEU — Council Directive 98/84/EC, arts 2, 3 — Council Directive 2001/29/EC, arts 2, 3, 5

  9 Case(s) considered
• Secretary of State for the Home Department v AF (No 3) (Secretary of State for the Home Department v AM, Secretary of State for the Home Department v AN, Secretary of State for the Home Department v AE)

  10 Mar 2008 (No 2) [2008] EWHC 453 (Admin); [2008] ACD 53, QBD (Stanley Burnton J)

  09 Apr 2008 (No 3) [2008] EWHC 689 (Admin); [2008] 4 All ER 340; The Times, 25 April 2008, QBD (Stanley Burnton J)

  17 Oct 2008 [2008] EWCA Civ 1148; [2010] 2 AC 269; [2009] 2 WLR 423; [2009] 2 All ER 602; The Times, 29 October 2008, CA

  10 Jun 2009 [2009] UKHL 28; [2010] 2 AC 269; [2009] 3 WLR 74; [2009] 3 All ER 643; 26 BHRC 738; The Times, 11 June 2009; [2009] WLR (D) 180, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 10 positive; 4 neutral; 5 negative; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 147.
  HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to fair trial — 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 Home Secretary's decision flawed — Some or all of material not disclosed to controlee — Special advocates appointed to represent controlee with sight of closed material not disclosed to controlee — Whether hearing necessarily unfair absent disclosure to controlee of irreducible minimum of information — Whether procedure in breach of controlee's Convention right to fair trial — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 6 — Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, s 3(10), Sch, para 4 — CPR, Pt 76

  8 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• NML Capital Ltd v Republic of Argentina

  29 Jan 2009 [2009] EWHC 110 (Comm); [2009] QB 579; [2009] 2 WLR 1332; [2009] 1 All ER (Comm) 697; [2009] 1 Lloyd's Rep 378, QBD

  04 Feb 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 41; [2011] QB 8; [2010] 3 WLR 874; [2010] 2 All ER (Comm) 1206; [2010] 2 Lloyd's Rep 442; [2010] WLR (D) 28, CA

  06 Jul 2011 [2011] UKSC 31; [2011] 2 AC 495; [2011] 3 WLR 273; [2011] 4 All ER 1191; [2012] 1 All ER (Comm) 1081; [2011] 2 Lloyd's Rep 628; [2011] WLR (D) 220; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive; 1 neutral; 2 negative; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 51.
  INTERNATIONAL LAW — State immunity — Foreign judgment

  PRACTICE — Claim form — Service out of jurisdiction
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  INTERNATIONAL LAW — State immunity — Foreign judgment — Claimant obtaining New York judgment against foreign state in respect of default on bonds — Claimant bringing claim in England for enforcement of New York judgment — Whether proceedings in England “relating to … a commercial transaction” — Statutory provision allowing for recognition of judgment of foreign court where court would have had jurisdiction on basis of rules applicable in United Kingdom — Whether provision jurisdictional — Whether applicable only if statutory exception to state immunity applying — Whether terms of bond amounting to submission to English jurisdiction — State Immunity Act 1978, ss 1, 2, 3(1) — Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, s 31(1)

  PRACTICE — Claim form — Service out of jurisdiction — Claimant seeking to serve proceedings on foreign state — Claimant pleading state not immune from suit — Basis of contention legally flawed — Whether procedural error capable of remedy — Whether discretion to permit claimant to argue new bases for jurisdiction — CPR rr 3.10, 6.20(9)

  10 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument 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 (Noone) v Governor of Drake Hall Prison

  31 Jan 2008 [2008] EWHC 207 (Admin), QBD (Mitting J)

  17 Oct 2008 [2008] EWCA Civ 1097; [2009] 1 WLR 1321; [2009] 1 All ER 494, CA

  30 Jun 2010 [2010] UKSC 30; [2010] 1 WLR 1743; [2010] 4 All ER 463; [2010] WLR (D) 164; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 10.
  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Release on licence
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  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Release on licence — Computation of release dates where prisoner serving consecutive sentences of less than or more than 12 months passed under different statutory sentencing regimes — New statutory sentencing regime with transitional provisions — Calculation of earliest release date on home detention curfew and licence — Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No 8 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2005, Sch 2, para 14

  PRISONS — Prisoners’ rights — Release on licence — Computation of release dates where prisoner serving consecutive sentences of less than and more than 12 months — New statutory sentencing regime with transitional provisions — Calculation of earliest release date on home detention curfew and licence — Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No 8 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2005, Sch 2, para 14

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• R (Barclay) v Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice

  18 Jun 2008 [2008] EWHC 1354 (Admin); [2010] 1 AC 464; [2008] 3 WLR 867; [2008] UKHRR 1284, QBD (Wyn Williams J)

  02 Dec 2008 [2008] EWCA Civ 1319; [2010] 1 AC 464; [2009] 2 WLR 1205, CA

  01 Dec 2009 [2009] UKSC 9; [2010] 1 AC 464; [2009] 3 WLR 1270; [2010] 2 All ER 267; [2009] WLR (D) 349; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 20.
  HUMAN RIGHTS — Jurisdiction — Channel Islands

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to fair trial — Interference with

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to free elections — Interference with
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  HUMAN RIGHTS — Jurisdiction — Channel Islands — United Kingdom declaring Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms extending to Island of Sark as dependent territory — Whether Human Rights Act 1998 extending to Sark — Ministers and Privy Counsellors advising Queen to give Royal Assent to Laws proposed by legislature of Sark — Whether advisers acting as “public authority” — Human Rights Act 1998, s 6 — Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1953), art 56, First Protocol, art 4

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to fair trial — Interference with — Sark Law providing for Sark judge to sit in Sark legislature — Whether judge independent and impartial tribunal — Whether Law infringing Convention right to fair trial — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 6(1)

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Right to free elections — Interference with — Sark Law providing for officials to sit as unelected members of Sark legislature and prohibiting aliens from standing for election to legislature — Whether impairing “free expression of the opinion of the people in the choice of the legislature” — Whether infringing Convention right to free elections — Whether “people” limited to citizens — Whether law breaching right of citizen of European Union to stand as candidate at “municipal elections” — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt II, art 3 — EC Treaty, art 19(1)EC

  16 Case(s) considered

  4 Words & Phrases considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 International Agreement considered

• Supperstone v Hurst

  09 Jun 2009 [2009] EWHC 1271 (Ch); [2009] 1 WLR 2306; [2009] WLR (D) 176, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  PRACTICE — Vexatious litigant — Civil restraint order
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  PRACTICE — Vexatious litigant — Civil restraint order — Court's jurisdiction to make extended civil restraint order — Whether extending to restraining litigant from communicating with named persons — Practice Direction 3C supplementing CPR r 3.11, para 3.1

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• R (Smith) v Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner (R (Secretary of State for Defence) v Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner)

  11 Apr 2008 [2008] EWHC 694 (Admin); [2011] 1 AC 1; [2008] 3 WLR 1284; [2008] ACD 45; The Times, 30 May 2008, QBD (Collins J)

  18 May 2009 (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) [2009] EWCA Civ 441; [2011] 1 AC 1; [2009] 3 WLR 1099; [2009] 4 All ER 985; [2009] WLR (D) 158; [2009] ACD 54; (2009) 159 NLJ 790; The Times, 20 May 2009, CA (Sir Anthony Clarke MR, Keene, Dyson LJJ)

  30 Jun 2010 [2010] UKSC 29; [2011] 1 AC 1; [2010] 3 WLR 223; [2010] 3 All ER 1067; [2010] HRLR 28; [2010] WLR (D) 165; (2010) 160 NLJ 973; The Times, 8 July 2010; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers PSC, Lord Hope of Craighead DPSC, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Mance, Lord Collins of Mapesbury, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 70.
  CORONER — Inquest — Verdict

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Coroners Rules

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Inquest

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Life — State's duty to investigate death
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  CORONER — Inquest — Verdict — Soldier dying of hyperthermia while on duty in Iraq — Coroner's narrative verdict stating death caused by serious failure to address deceased's difficulty in adjusting to climate — Whether breaching prohibition against determining questions of civil liability — Coroners Rules 1984, r 42(b)

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Coroners Rules — Inquest required to comply with procedural requirements implicit in Convention right to life — Whether necessary to change rules prohibiting address on facts or determination of question of civil liability

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Inquest — Whether desirable for statute to set out clearly differences between inquest required to comply with procedural requirements implicit in Convention right to life and any other type of inquest

  HUMAN RIGHTS — Life — State's duty to investigate death — Soldier dying of hyperthermia sustained while carrying out duties off base in Iraq — Whether death of soldier within scope of Human Rights Convention or of legislation giving domestic effect to Convention — Whether procedural requirements implicit in Convention right to life applying to inquest into soldier's death — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 2 — Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1953), art 1

  24 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

  1 International Agreement considered
• R v Gore (R v Maher)

  14 Jul 2009 [2009] EWCA Crim 1424; [2009] 1 WLR 2454; [2009] 2 Cr App R 445; [2009] WLR (D) 240, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 6.
  CRIME — Abuse of process — Fixed penalty notice
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  CRIME — Abuse of process — Fixed penalty notice — Appellants receiving fixed penalty notices following late night city centre disturbance — Appellants subsequently charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm — Whether prosecution amounting to abuse of process — Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, ss 2, 5

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Gray v Thames Trains Ltd

  06 Jul 2007 [2007] EWHC 1558 (QB), QBD (Flaux J)

  25 Jun 2008 [2008] EWCA Civ 713; [2009] AC 1339; [2009] 2 WLR 351, CA

  17 Jun 2009 [2009] UKHL 33; [2009] AC 1339; [2009] 3 WLR 167; [2009] 4 All ER 81; [2009] WLR (D) 195, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 8 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 47.
  NEGLIGENCE — Causation — Loss of earnings
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  NEGLIGENCE — Causation — Loss of earnings — Claimant injured in railway accident caused by defendants' negligence — Claimant suffering post-traumatic stress disorder causing severe depression and psychological changes — Claimant killing man whilst suffering from disorder and pleading guilty to manslaughter due to diminished responsibility — Damages for loss of earnings resulting from post-traumatic stress disorder — Whether claim for loss of earnings sustained after date of killing barred on grounds of public policy — Whether detention breaking chain of causation — Whether other heads of claim barred on grounds of public policy from date of killing

  9 Case(s) considered