South Lanarkshire Council (Appellant) v The Scottish Information Commissioner (Respondent) (Scotland) – Supreme Court
Supreme Court, 29th July 2013
Category: Supreme Court
Poundland case reaches supreme court – The Guardian
“The government will attempt to overturn the judgment of a multimillion-pound case affecting almost a quarter of a million unemployed people on Monday.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Second Christian B&B case headed for the Supreme Court – UK Human Rights Blog
“Black and Morgan v. Wilkinson [2013] EWCA Civ 820. The Court of Appeal recently dismissed an appeal by a Christian bed and breakfast owner, upholding the decision that she unlawfully discriminated against a gay couple by refusing to provide them with a double bedroom. However, the Master of the Rolls (head of the civil justice system) Lord Dyson expressed doubt about whether the previous binding decision of the Court of Appeal in the very similar case of Hall and Preddy v. Bull and Bull [2012] EWCA Civ 83, was correct, and the Court granted permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 23rd July 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Regina (New London College Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Migrants’ Rights Network and another intervening); Regina (West London Vocational Training College) v Same – WLR Daily
“The requirement, laid down under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971, that rules affecting immigrants be laid before Parliament before they became lawful applied to rules which a migrant had to fulfil as a condition of his obtaining leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom and did not apply to rules which an educational establishment had to fulfil before it was entitled to sponsor students from outside the European Economic Area.”
WLR Daily, 17th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Supreme Court to rule on pension scheme insolvency ranking next week – OUT-LAW.com
“The UK’s highest court will rule on whether an insolvent company’s pension schemes can take priority over other company debts on Wednesday, according to its website.”
OUT-LAW.com, 19th July 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Opening Up Mistake – New Square Chambers
“Robin Mathew’s article above discusses the decision of the Supreme Court in Pitt v Holt and Futter v Futter so far as it dealt with ‘inadequate consideration’ by trustees. But the court also dealt with the general law of mistake in dispositions of property. Here it disagreed with the Court of Appeal.”
Full story (PDF) (see p. 2)
New Square Chambers, June 2013
Source: www.newsquarechambers.co.uk
A heresy extinguished: Hastings-Bass reformed – New Square Chambers
“A heresy usually derives from the earnest application of principle without the benefit of perspective. Addressing the rule in Hastings Bass, and its heretical application over many years by the High Court, the Supreme Court in Pitt v Holt and Futter v Futter [2013] uKSC 26 has greatly narrowed its use and effect.”
Full story (PDF)
New Square Chambers, June 2013
Source: www.newsquarechambers.co.uk
Scientology case has judges debating the meaning of religion – The Guardian
“Five supreme court justices have spent a day wrestling with notions of God, nirvana and what constitutes worship in an attempt to decide whether Scientologists may conduct weddings.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Benedetti (Appellant) v Sawiris and others (Respondents) – Supreme Court
Benedetti (Appellant) v Sawiris and others (Respondents) [2013] UKSC 50 | UKSC 2011/0087 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 17th July 2013
Home Office asks Supreme Court to make landmark privacy ruling – The Independent
“Government lawyers want to overturn decision that criminal records vetting system breaches human rights.”
The Independent, 14th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Home Office may detain illegal entrant who appears to be over 18 – UK Human Rights Blog
“The Immigration Act 1971, Schedule 2, paragraph 16(2) (‘paragraph 16’) empowers the Home Secretary, acting through immigration officers, to detain a person if there is reasonable ground to suspect that he is liable to be removed as an illegal entrant to the United Kingdom. Section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 (‘section 55’) imposes duties regarding the welfare of children on the Secretary of State and immigration officers in all immigration matters. The issue on this appeal was whether section 55 rendered the appellant’s detention for a period of 13 days unlawful, in circumstances in which the respondent acted in the mistaken but reasonable belief that the appellant was aged over 18.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 15th July 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Regina (Sturnham) v Parole Board and another (No 2) – WLR Daily
Regina (Sturnham) v Parole Board and another (No 2): [2013] UKSC 47; [2013] WLR (D) 274
“The statutory provisions relating to sentences of imprisonment for public protection involved a higher threshold for the imposition of such sentences than for continued detention after the expiry of a prisoner’s minimum term.”
WLR Daily, 3rd July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (AA) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
Regina (AA) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: [2013] UKSC 49; [2013] WLR (D) 272
“The Home Secretary did not act unlawfully when she detained a 17-year-old illegal immigrant in the mistaken but reasonable belief that he was aged over 18.”
WLR Daily, 10th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Kapri (AP) (Appellant) v The Lord Advocate representing The Government of the Republic of Albania (Respondent) (Scotland) – Supreme Court
Supreme Court, 10th July 2013
R (on the application of AA) (FC) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent) – YouTube
Supreme Court, 10th July 2013
R (on the application of Sturnham) No 2 (Appellant) v The Parole Board of England and Wales and another (Respondents) – Supreme Court
Supreme Court, 3rd July 2013
Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd v Zodiac Seats UK Ltd (formerly Contour Aerospace Ltd) – WLR Daily
“Where judgment was given in an English court that a patent, whether English or European, was valid and infringed, and the patent was subsequently retrospectively revoked or amended, whether in England or at the European Patent Office, the defendant was entitled to rely on the fact of the revocation or amendment on an inquiry as to damages in respect of the unamended patent.”
WLR Daily, 3rd July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Dumfries and Galloway Council v North (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) – WLR Daily
“The hypothesis of the second limb of the ‘in the same employment’ test in section 1(6) of the Equal Pay Act 1970 was that the chosen male comparators were to be transferred to do their present jobs in the location where the women claimants worked, while there was no requirement of any real possibility that such a transfer would occur. The question to be answered was whether in the event of such a transfer, however unlikely, the comparators would remain employed on the same or broadly similar terms and conditions to those applicable in their current place of work.”
WLR Daily, 26th June 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
