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The Appellant, Mr OBrien, is a retired self employed barrister who also worked on a daily fee paid basis as a part time judge of the Crown Court between 1978 and 2005. At the material time domestic law entitled salaried judges (including part time judges) to a pension based on their final years salary and number of yea... |
The issue in this appeal is whether the National Health Service or local authorities (with means tested contributions from clients) are responsible for paying for the work done by registered nurses in social rather than health care settings. Section 49 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 provides that a local author... |
On 18 January 2005, at about 2.20 am, a tragic incident occurred on the A282, a six lane carriageway which links the Dartford Crossing bridge and tunnel with the M25 motorway. Mr Jones was driving a Highways Agency gritter along the nearside carriageway. Slightly ahead of him, in the central lane of the carriageway, wa... |
The respondent, Mr Hayward, suffered an injury at work in June 1998. Mr Hayward brought proceedings and the employer admitted liability, but he deliberately and dishonestly exaggerated the extent of the injury in order to achieve a higher settlement figure of 134,973.11 from the appellant, the employers liability insur... |
Local authorities owe a variety of duties towards children in need, who may include unaccompanied minors coming here to seek asylum. Such children may be entitled to accommodation and other help which is different from, and rather better than, the services available to adults. So disputes may arise about whether a youn... |
The immediate issue in this case is whether the trial at which the Appellant was convicted of murder was fair. The point of law of broader significance is whether it is compatible with Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights for an appeal against a criminal conviction on the ground of the Crowns non disclo... |
The appellant local authority (the Council) has responsibility for the enforcement of food safety laws in its area. In June 2011 inspectors visited the premises of the respondent company, which carries on the business of buying, processing and selling meat products. The inspectors found a number of packages of frozen m... |
This case concerns the scope for justifying indirect discrimination against men in the allocation of Child Tax Credit (CTC). CTC was introduced by the Tax Credits Act 2002 and replaced the previous separate systems of tax credits and benefit supplements for people looking after children, separately administered by the ... |
National Savings and Investments (NS&I) is a non ministerial Government department offering retail savings and investments to UK customers. It also provides support functions to other public bodies, referred to as business to business services or B2B services [2]. NS&I has outsourced its own operational services. In 20... |
The issue in this appeal is the scope of the remedy of judicial review in the Court of Session of decisions of the Upper Tribunal established under the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (the 2007 Act). Ms Ebas claim for disability living allowance was refused by the Department of Work and Pensions on 1 Februar... |
The respondent is a member of the Volkswagen (VW) Group and is used (through its retail sector) to provide hire purchase (HP) finance for the sale of vehicles manufactured by the group. When a customer of a VW dealership wishes to purchase a vehicle using finance from the respondent, the vehicle is acquired by the resp... |
In breach of Article 81 of the EC Treaty (TEC) (now Article 101 of Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)), the appellants participated in an illegal cartel in electrical and mechanical carbon and graphite products. The appellants disclosed the existence of the cartel to the European Commission and a Co... |
The Appellant, Ms Caroline Reilly, is the former head teacher of a primary school which was, at the relevant time, maintained by the Respondent, Sandwell MBC (the local authority). Approximately ten years before Ms Reilly became the head teacher of the school, she met a man named Ian Selwood, who became her close frien... |
This appeal concerns the question whether, in cases of social security benefit awards mistakenly inflated due to a calculation error, the Secretary of State is entitled to recover sums overpaid under the common law of unjust enrichment or whether section 71 of the Social Security Benefits Act 1992 (the 1992 Act) provid... |
The appellant in this case challenged the rule that an expert witness enjoyed immunity from any form of civil action arising from the evidence he or she gave in the course of proceedings. The appellant had been hit by a car in March 2001 and suffered physical and psychiatric consequences. He consulted solicitors with a... |
These proceedings arise out of a fatal accident in Germany. On 21 May 2004 Major Cox, an officer serving with H.M. Forces in Germany, was riding his bicycle on the verge of a road near his base when a car left the road and hit him, causing injuries from which he died. The driver was Mr Kretschmer, a German national res... |
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