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OB (by his mother and litigation friend) (FC) (Respondent) v Aventis Pasteur SA (Appellant), [2010] UKSC 23  -  The Respondent sought an order that APSA be substituted as a defendant in place of APMSD in the proceedings against APMSD, relying on section 35(5)(b) and (6)(a) of the LA. These provisions allow a new party to be substituted for a party whose name was given in any claim made in the original action in... more...
R v Horncastle and others (Appellants) (on appeal from the Court of Appeal Criminal Division), [2009] UKSC 14  -  Supreme Court - Press Summary BACKGROUND TO THE APPEAL The appellants were convicted of serious criminal offences after trials in which the victims of the offences did not give evidence: in one case because he had since died and in the other because she had run away in fear when the trial was about... more...
R (on the application of Barclay and others) v Secretary of State for Justice and others, [2009] UKSC 9  -  Supreme Court Press Summary Background to the appeal Sark is an island in the Channel Islands of about 600 inhabitants. In this appeal, Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay sought to challenge new constitutional arrangements in Sark contained in the Reform (Sark) Law 2008. Under the Reform Law, the... more...
Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent) v AF (Appellant) (FC) and another (Appellant) and one other action, [2009] UKHL 28  -  The three appellants, AF, AN and AE, are subject to non-derogating control orders involving significant restriction of liberty. Each control order was made pursuant to s.2 of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (“the PTA”) on the ground that the Secretary of State had reasonable grounds for suspecting... more...
Austin (FC) (Appellant) & another v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (Respondent), [2009] UKHL 5  -  In May 2001 at about 2pm, a crowd of demonstrators marched into Oxford Circus from Regent Street South. By the end of the afternoon some 3,000 people were within the Circus and several thousands more were gathered outside in the streets that lead into it. The appellant was among those who went to Oxford... more...
R (on the application of Wright and others) (Appellants) v Secretary of State for Health and another (Respondents), [2009] UKHL 3  -  Adults who need special care and who receive personal care in their homes or who live in care homes, need to be protected from potential harm.  Accordingly, Part VII of the Care Standards Act 2000 provides that care workers employed in looking after such vulnerable adults may be placed on a list of people... more...
Savage (Respondent) v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (Appellants), [2008] UKHL 74  -  In July 2004 Mrs Carol Savage, who was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, absconded from Runwell Hospital where she was being treated as a detained patient.  She then committed suicide by throwing herself in front of a train. Mrs Savage’s adult daughter, Miss Savage, brought the present proceedings... more...
In re E (a child) (AP) (Appellant) (Northern Ireland), [2008] UKHL 66  -  The essence of the appellant’s case is that the state and its emanation, the police force, failed to take appropriate steps to discharge their positive obligation under art. 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) to protect the appellant... more...
Nigel Maurice Johnston v. The Scottish Ministers  -  Domestic and EU Legislation:... more...
Case C-341/02 Commission v Germany (judgment of Court of Justice of 14 April 2005)  -  A Member State is not obliged, when checking to ensure that the minimum wage is being paid to workers posted from another Member State, to take all allowances and supplements into account.... more...
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