“Withers has been refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court a dispute brought against it over client money.”
The Lawyer, 11th April 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Insurers may have to pay out as much as £5bn to relatives of those who have died from asbestos-related cancers following a supreme court judgment that will benefit thousands of families.”
The Guardian, 28th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK Supreme Court has made a ruling which could allow thousands of insurance claims by families of people who died after exposure to asbestos.”
BBC News, 28th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Diversity is not an optional extra, it is a basic component of the court’s ability to do its job in modern society.”
The Guardian, 26th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In a unanimous decision ([2012] UKSC 11) the Supreme Court allowed the appeal of Times Newspapers Limited against a decision of the Court of Appeal ([2010] EWCA Civ 804) which had held that it could not rely on Reynolds qualified privilege. The Supreme Court restored the decision of Mr Justice Tugendhat ([2009] EWHC 2375 (QB)) who had ruled, on the hearing of a preliminary issue, that the Times was entitled to rely on the defence of Reynolds qualified privilege in relation to the printed publication of the article about the claimant.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd [2012] UKSC 11; [2012] WLR (D) 93
“A publisher was protected from liability for defamation when it published an article containing allegations of corruption against a named police officer, even though the allegations were subsequently held to be unfounded, if it could be shown that the issues raised in the article were matters of public interest and that at the time of publication it appeared to the publishers that there was a strong circumstantial case for believing the allegations to be true.”
WLR Daily, 21st March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Seven Algerian nationals suspected of terrorism have resisted attempts to deport them by turning the tables on the government’s support for using secret evidence in court.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Supreme Court decision refusing a dismissed employee compensation for the way he was sacked provides a further prompt to review the interaction of employment legislation with common law remedies, says Catriona Stirling.”
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Cloisters, February 2012
Source: www.cloisters.com
“The Government has asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether it acted lawfully when it announced plans to scale back its subsidy plans for solar projects in December.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Supreme Court has ruled it will decide whether private investigator Glenn Mulcaire must reveal which journalists asked him to hack phones.”
BBC News, 15th February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“This is the second of two blogs on the recent Supreme Court case of Rabone and another v Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust [2012] UKSC 2.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 14th February 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Ravat v Halliburton Manufacturing and Services Ltd [2011] UKSC 1; [2012] WLR (D) 24
“An employment tribunal could consider a claim for unfair dismissal by an employee who worked overseas if the connection between the employment relationship and Great Britain was sufficiently strong to show that that could be justified.”
WLR Daily, 8th February 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Rabone v Pennine Care NHS Trust [2012] UKSC 2; [2012] WLR (D) 23
“A psychiatric in-patient who was known to be at real and immediate risk of suicide was owed a positive operational duty under article 2 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms by the NHS trust to take preventative measures to safeguard her life even though she was a voluntary patient who was not detained under the Mental Health Act 1983.”
WLR Daily, 8th February 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“An NHS trust breached its duty of care to a 20-year-old patient who killed herself while on home release from a psychiatric unit, the supreme court has ruled.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Last week Guardian Law launched one of our biggest projects to date – an interactive timeline that tracks the development of the supreme court (the UK’s, not the other one) from 1399 until the present. It’s an ongoing project, which will be updated as cases are decided and law lords come and go, and will soon incorporate video footage too.”
The Guardian, 7th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Supreme Court is to hear a case challenging the way councils in England can consider their finances when assessing people for social care.”
BBC News, 7th February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, will start to tweet from today, issuing news about its latest judgments.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal, has lost his appeal against an earlier high court ruling requiring him to reveal who at the News of the World instructed him to hack into Steve Coogan’s voicemails.”
The Guardian, 1st February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK’s highest court of appeal has ruled on cases ranging from prenups to Star Wars helmets and the definition of a miscarriage of justice.”
The Guardian, 31st January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is to enter the final stage of his legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden to face questioning over sex crime allegations.”
The Guardian, 1st February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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