Results: 869

• Florea v Judicial Authority Carei Courthouse, Satu Mare County, Romania

  30 Jul 2014 [2014] EWHC 2528 (Admin); [2015] 1 WLR 1953; [2014] WLR (D) 356, DC

  Subsequent citations: 13.
  EXTRADITION — Appeal — Prison conditions in requesting state
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  EXTRADITION — Appeal — Prison conditions in requesting state — Extradition to Romania pursuant to European arrest warrant — Whether subjection to Romanian overcrowded prison conditions breach of Convention rights — Whether extradition to proceed — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 3

  1 Statute considered
• R v Brennan

  21 Nov 2014 [2014] EWCA Crim 2387; [2015] 1 WLR 2060; [2015] 1 Cr App R 161; [2014] WLR (D) 502, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 6.
  CRIME — Homicide — Diminished responsibility
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  CRIME — Homicide — Diminished responsibility — Defendant charged with murder — Uncontradicted expert evidence adduced that defendant’s mental disorder significant contributory factor causing him to kill — Defendant convicted of murder — Whether right to continue prosecution on murder charge — Whether judge to withdraw charge from jury — Homicide Act 1957, s 2 (as substituted by Coroners and Justice Act 2009, s 52)

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• R v Clayton

  23 May 2014 [2014] EWCA Crim 1030; [2014] 1 WLR 3994; [2014] 2 Cr App R 296; [2014] WLR (D) 231, CA

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  PLANNING — Enforcement notice — Failure to comply
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  PLANNING — Enforcement notice — Failure to comply — Defendants charged with failure to comply with enforcement notice — Notice valid on face — Information available suggesting factual basis for issue of notice not in existence — Whether prosecution to be stayed as abuse of process — Whether tantamount to challenge to validity of enforcement notice in criminal proceedings — Town and Country Planning Act 1990, s 285(1) (as amended by Planning and Compensation Act 1991, Sch 19, Pt 1)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• In re M (Brussels II Revised: Article 15) (In re D (A Child), Nottingham City Council v LM)

  18 Dec 2013 [2013] EWHC 4078 (Fam); [2014] 2 FLR 496; [2013] CN 2004, Fam D (Mostyn J)

  21 Feb 2014 [2014] EWCA Civ 152; [2014] 2 FLR 1372; [2014] WLR (D) 92, CA

  18 Sep 2014 [2014] EWHC 3388 (Fam); [2014] CN 1751, Fam D (Mostyn J)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 49.
  CHILDREN — Care proceedings — Mother’s application for transfer to courts of Czech Republic

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under Council Regulation — Care proceedings

  CHILDREN — Care proceedings — Local authority seeking care and placement orders
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  CHILDREN — Care proceedings — Mother’s application for transfer to courts of Czech Republic — Whether application to be granted

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under Council Regulation — Care proceedings — Judge requesting Czech court to assume jurisdiction in relation to care proceedings concerning child — Whether judge erring — Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003, arts 8, 15

  CHILDREN — Care proceedings — Local authority seeking care and placement orders — Whether orders to be made

• Richmond Pharmacology Ltd v Chester Overseas Ltd

  01 Aug 2014 [2014] EWHC 2692 (Ch); [2014] Bus LR 1110; [2014] WLR (D) 365, Ch D (Stephen Jourdan QC sitting as a deputy High Court judge)

  10 Nov 2014 [2014] EWHC 3418 (Ch); [2014] CN 1970, Ch D (Stephen Jourdan QCsitting as a deputy High Court judge)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  COSTS — Order for costs — Indemnity basis

  COMPANY — Director — Breach of duty
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  COSTS — Order for costs — Indemnity basis — Whether claim having requisite level of unreasonableness — Whether order for indemnity costs to be made

  COMPANY — Director — Breach of duty — First defendant company having minority shareholding in claimant company — Second and third defendants appointed by first defendant to claimants’ board of directors — First defendant marketing its minority holding in claimant to third parties — Whether in course of marketing shares first defendant disclosing claimant’s confidential information to third parties — Whether breaching obligations to claimant under shareholder agreement — Test for determining whether director in breach of general statutory duties — Whether by causing first defendant to breach agreement second and third defendants breaching statutory and equitable duties owed to claimant — Whether claimant estopped from asserting that defendants in breach of duties — Companies Act 2006, ss 172, 174, 175

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• 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

• C v C (Court of Protection: Disclosure) (RC v CC)

  08 May 2013 [2013] EWCOP 1424; [2013] CN 769, Ct of Protection (Judge Cardinal sitting as a High Court judge)

  31 Jan 2014 [2014] EWCOP 131; [2014] 1 WLR 2731; [2014] WLR (D) 43, Ct of Protection (Sir James Munby P)

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  MENTAL DISORDER — Incapable person — Birth mother seeking to re-establish contact with child

  MENTAL DISORDER — Court of Protection — Disclosure
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  MENTAL DISORDER — Incapable person — Birth mother seeking to re-establish contact with child — Whether disclosure of certain documents strictly necessary

  MENTAL DISORDER — Court of Protection — Disclosure — Application by birth mother for contact with adopted incapacitated adult daughter — Judge restricting disclosure to birth mother of documents filed by local authority — Whether disclosure principles applicable in children cases applying — Test to be applied — Whether non-disclosure strictly necessary

  7 Case(s) considered

• Manchester Ship Canal Co Ltd v United Utilities Water plc (Bridgewater Canal Co Ltd v United Utilities Water plc)

  14 Feb 2012 [2012] EWHC 232 (Ch); [2012] Env LR 31, Ch D (Newey J)

  07 Feb 2013 [2013] EWCA Civ 40; [2013] 1 WLR 2570; [2013] 2 All ER 642; [2013] WLR (D) 50; [2013] Env LR 20, CA (Arden, Sullivan, Patten LJJ)

  02 Jul 2014 (Canal & River Trust intervening) [2014] UKSC 40; [2014] 1 WLR 2576; [2014] 4 All ER 40; [2014] 3 EGLR 81; [2014] WLR (D) 291; The Times, 8 July 2014; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury PSC, Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, Lord Sumption, Lord Hughes, Lord Toulson JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 6.
  WATER — Sewerage — Discharge
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  WATER — Sewerage — Discharge — Implied statutory power to discharge surface water and treated effluent from public sewers into private watercourses without owners’ consent — Sewerage functions transferred to commercial sewerage undertakers — Sewerage undertaker continuing to discharge into private watercourses without owners’ consent — Whether implied power continuing under new statutory regime — Whether authorising discharge from future sewage outfalls or only those in use when Act came into force — Water Act 1989, s 4, Sch 2, para 2 — Water Industry Act 1991, ss 94, 106, 116

  6 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

• R (Hussein) v Secretary of State for Defence

  01 Feb 2013 [2013] EWHC 95 (Admin); [2013] CN 897, DC

  31 Jul 2014 [2014] EWCA Civ 1087; [2014] WLR (D) 361, CA

  Subsequent citations: 7.
  HUMAN RIGHTS — Laws of war — Iraqi seized and subjected to shouting regime

  INTERNATIONAL LAW — War — Geneva Conventions
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  HUMAN RIGHTS — Laws of war — Iraqi seized and subjected to shouting regime — Whether policy behind treatment of detainees humane and lawful

  INTERNATIONAL LAW — War — Geneva Conventions — Secretary of State’s policy authorising questioning of captured persons by means of technique involving shouting — Whether policy giving rise to unacceptable risk of inhumane treatment, threats, insults, or unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment — Whether compatible with international law — Geneva Conventions Act 1957 (5 & 6 Eliz 2, c 52), Sch 3, art 3, 17
• Emirates Trading Agency LLC v Prime Mineral Exports Private Ltd

  01 Jul 2014 [2014] EWHC 2104 (Comm); [2015] 1 WLR 1145; [2014] WLR (D) 293; [2014] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 457, QBD (Teare J)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 1 negative; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 9.
  ARBITRATION — Arbitrator — Jurisdiction
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  ARBITRATION — Arbitrator — Jurisdiction — Dispute resolution clause — Contract providing for time-limited dispute resolution by friendly agreement before arbitration could be invoked — Contractual dispute referred to arbitration — Whether dispute resolution clause enforceable — Whether condition precedent to arbitrators’ jurisdiction met — Whether arbitral tribunal having substantive jurisdiction to determine dispute — Arbitration Act 1996, s 67

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered