Category: law reports

George Wimpey UK Ltd v Tewkesbury Borough Council (MA Holdings Ltd, prospective appellant) – WLR Daily

Posted February 1st, 2008 in appeals, civil procedure rules, jurisdiction, law reports by sally

George Wimpey UK Ltd v Tewkesbury Borough Council (MA Holdings Ltd, prospective appellant) [2008] EWCA Civ 12; [2008] WLR (D) 23

“The Court of Appeal had jurisdiction to entertain an application by, and to grant permission to, someone who had not been a party to the proceedings in the court below, to enable them to appeal against the decision of the court below. The word “appellant” as defined in CPR Pt 52 did not exclude someone who had not been a party to the proceedings below and the rule should be interpreted in order to meet the overriding objective of enabling the court to deal with cases justly.”

WLR Daily, 31st January 2008

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Ofulue and another v Bossert – WLR Daily

Posted February 1st, 2008 in adverse possession, human rights, law reports by sally

Ofulue and another v Bossert [2008] EWCA Civ 7; [2008] WLR (D) 22

“The Court of Appeal should follow a decision of the European Court of Human Rights that the law of adverse possession as it stood prior to the Land Registration Act 2002 did not violate the right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions, guaranteed by art 1 of Protocol No 1 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”

WLR Daily, 31st January 2008

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Glaxo Group Ltd v Genentech Inc and another – WLR Daily

Posted February 1st, 2008 in law reports, patents, stay of proceedings by sally

Glaxo Group Ltd v Genentech Inc and another [2008] EWCA Civ 23; [2008] WLR (D) 21

“The approach to a stay in European patent cases differed from a stay in ordinary commercial litigation because the possibility of parallel validity proceedings in national courts and in the European Patent Office was inherent in the legal arrangements in the Convention under which the EPO was established.”

WLR Daily, 31st January 2008

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A v Hoare; X and another v Wandsworth London Borough Council – WLR Daily

Posted February 1st, 2008 in damages, law reports, personal injuries, sexual offences, time limits by sally

A v Hoare; X and another v Wandsworth London Borough Council; C v Middlesborough Council; H v Suffolk County Council; Young v Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds) [2008] UKHL 6; [2008] WLR (D) 20

“A claim for damages for personal injuries caused by a sexual assault fell within s 11 of the Limitation Act 1980, allowing a limitation period of three years from the date when the claimant first considered the injury sufficiently serious to justify proceedings and the possibility of an extension beyond that if it was equitable to do so.”

WLR Daily, 31st January 2008

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Cinpres Gas Injection Ltd v Melea Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted February 1st, 2008 in law reports, patents, perjury, res judicata by sally

Cinpres Gas Injection Ltd v Melea Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 9; [2008] WLR (D) 19

“Where an inventor who gave perjured evidence at the trial of his employer’s application for a patent had been more than a mere witness in those proceedings, his fraud should be treated as his employer’s fraud for the purposes of the fraud exception to the doctrine of res judicata.”

WLR Daily, 31st January 2008

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Hilali v Governor of Whitemoor Prison – Times Law Reports

Posted February 1st, 2008 in extradition, jurisdiction, law reports by sally

Hilali v Governor of Whitemoor Prison

House of Lords

“Where there was a right of appeal under Part 1 of the Extradition Act 2003 to appeal against an extradition order, habeas corpus was excluded by section 34; it would be contrary to the principle of mutual recognition to which the Act gave effect to grant habeas corpus on the ground of a change of circumstances.”

The Times, 1st February 2008

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Hall and Others v Stone – Times Law Reports

Posted February 1st, 2008 in costs, damages, law reports by sally

Hall and Others v Stone

Court of Appeal

The fact that a successful claimant had not been awarded the whole amount of damages he sought did not mean that the defendant had partially succeeded and the judge could not reduce the claimant’s costs.

The Times, 1st February 2008

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Hilali v Governor of Whitemoor Prison and another – WLR Daily

Posted January 31st, 2008 in extradition, jurisdiction, law reports by sally

Hilali v Governor of Whitemoor Prison and another [2008] UKHL 3; [2008] WLR (D) 18

“In a case where there was a right of appeal under Pt 1 of the Extradition Act 2003 from a judge’s decision to make an extradition order, habeas corpus was excluded by s 34. To grant it on the ground of a fundamental change of circumstances would be contrary to the principle of mutual recognition given effect by the Act.”

WLR Daily, 30th January 2008

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GAB Robins (UK) Ltd v Triggs – WLR Daily

Posted January 31st, 2008 in contract of employment, law reports, unfair dismissal by sally

GAB Robins (UK) Ltd v Triggs [2008] EWCA Civ 17; [2008] WLR (D) 17

“An employee who had been constructively dismissed was not entitled in proceedings for unfair dismissal to claim damages for the consequences prior to the dismissal of the employer’s repudiatory breach of the employment contract. It was the employee’s acceptance, by her resignation, of the employer’s repudiation of the contract which caused the dismissal, not the repudiatory conduct itself.”

WLR Daily, 30th January 2008

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Boss Holdings Ltd v Grosvenor West End Properties and another – WLR Daily

Posted January 31st, 2008 in landlord & tenant, law reports by sally

Boss Holdings Ltd v Grosvenor West End Properties and another [2007] UKHL 5; [2008] WLR (D) 16

“A property which had been ‘designed … for living in’ when it was originally built, and which remained substantially so designed, was a ‘house’ within the meaning of s 2(1) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 regardless of whether it had subsequently become internally dilapidated and incapable of immediate residential occupation.”

WLR Daily, 30th January 2008

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House of Lords Judgments: What’s new?

Posted January 31st, 2008 in law reports by sally

In Re Hilali (Respondent) (application for a writ of Habeas Corpus) [2008] UKHL 3 (30 January 2008)

In re Duffy (FC) (Appellant) (Northern Ireland) [2008] UKHL 4 (30 January 2008)

Boss Holdings Limited (Appellants) v Grosvenor West End Properties and others (Respondents) [2008] UKHL 5 (30 January 2008)

A (Appellant) v Hoare (Respondent), C (FC) (Appellant) v Middlesbrough Council (Respondents), X (FC) and another (FC) (Appellants) v London Borough of Wandsworth (Respondents) (Conjoined Appeals), H (FC) (Appellant v Suffolk County Council (Respondents),Young (FC) (Appellant) v Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds) and others (Respondents) [2007] UKHL 6 (30 January 2008)

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A v Hoare X and Another v Wandsworth London Borough Council – Times Law Reports

Posted January 31st, 2008 in damages, law reports, personal injuries, sexual offences, time limits by sally

A v Hoare; X and Another v Wandsworth London Borough Council; C v Middlesborough Council; H v Suffolk County Counci; Young v Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds) and Another

House of Lords

“A claim for damages for personal injuries caused by a sexual assault had a limitation period of three years from the date when the victim first considered the injury sufficiently serious to justify proceedings but judges could extend that period if thought equitable.”

The Times, 31st Janaury 2008

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Thompstone v Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust – Times Law Reports

Posted January 30th, 2008 in law reports, periodical payments, personal injuries by sally

Thompstone v Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust
Corbett v South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority
RH v United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust
De Haas v South West London Strategic Health Authority

Court of Appeal

“Where a court made a periodical payments order for a claimant in proceedings involving catastrophic injury in the context of future care, of which the main element was the wages of the carers, the annual earnings survey published for care assistants and home carers was the more appropriate and usable index than the retail price index.”

The Times, 30th January 2008

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R v Y [2008] EWCA Crim 10 – WLR Daily

Posted January 29th, 2008 in hearsay evidence, law reports by sally

R v Y [2008] EWCA Crim 10; [2008] WLR (D) 15

“Many rulings made by trial judges could properly be described both as relating to ‘offences included in the indictment’ and as being evidentiary and as such came within the provisions of s 58 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, allowing the Crown to appeal against them provided it agreed, pursuant to s 58(8), that if the appeal failed the defendant had to be acquitted.”

WLR Daily, 28th January 2008

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British Broadcasting Corporation v Sugar and another; R (British Broadcasting Corporation) v Information Tribunal; R (Sugar) v Information Commissioner – WLR Daily

Posted January 29th, 2008 in freedom of information, judicial review, law reports by sally

British Broadcasting Corporation v Sugar and another; R (British Broadcasting Corporation) v Information Tribunal; R (Sugar) v Information Commissioner; [2008] WLR (D) 14

“The BBC was a public authority to a limited extent in respect of information not held for the purpose of journalism and not otherwise; and that the information tribunal had no jurisdiction to consider a letter which on its face had not been a decision letter of the Information Commissioner.”

WLR Daily, 28th January 2008

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R (Griffin) v Richmond Magistrates’ Court – WLR Daily

Posted January 29th, 2008 in fraud, human rights, insolvency, law reports by sally

R (Griffin) v Richmond Magistrates’ Court [2008] EWHC 84 (Admin); [2008] WLR (D) 13

“The statutory defence under s208(4) of the Insolvency Act 1986, available to a defendant to a charge under s208(1)(c) of the Act, imposed a legal burden of proof which was not incompatible with art 6 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”

WLR Daily, 28th January 2008

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In re Astron Clinica Ltd and others – WLR Daily

Posted January 29th, 2008 in computer programs, law reports, patents by sally

In re Astron Clinica Ltd and others [2008] EWHC 85 (Pat); [2008] WLR (D) 12

“Claims to computer programs were not necessarily excluded from patentability by art 52 of the Convention on the Grant of European Patents 1973. Where claims to a method performed by running a suitably programmed computer or to a computer programmed to carry out the method were allowable, then, in principle, a claim to the program itself should be allowable.”

WLR Daily, 28th January 2008

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KG (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; AK (Sri Lanka) v Same – WLR Daily

Posted January 29th, 2008 in EC law, immigration, law reports by sally

KG (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; AK (Sri Lanka) v Same [2008] EWCA Civ 13;[2008] WLR (D) 11

“The right of a citizen of the European Union and his family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States did not extend to “other family members” (falling within art 3(2)(a) but not art 2(2) of Parliament and Council Directive 2004/38/EC) who had not been the dependants or members of the household of the Union citizens in the European Economic Area state from which the citizen had moved.”

WLR Daily, 28th January 2008

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Statek Corpn v Alford and another – WLR Daily

Posted January 29th, 2008 in breach of trust, law reports, time limits by sally

Statek Corpn v Alford and another [2008] EWHC 32 (Ch); [2008] WLR (D) 10

“S 21(1) of the Limitation Act 1980 applied to a claim by a beneficiary under a trust against an accessory to fraudulent breaches of trust committed by other people so that no limitation period applied to such claims.”

WLR Daily, 28th January 2008

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Banga (t/a Banga Travel) v Secretary of State for the Department of Transport – Times Law Reports

Posted January 29th, 2008 in appeals, law reports, Transport Tribunal by sally

Banga (t/a Banga Travel) v Secretary of State for the Department of Transport

Court of Appeal

“In order to appeal to the Court of Appeal from the Transport Tribunal it was not necessary to obtain permission to appeal although the appeal had to be on a point of law.”

The Times, 29th January 2008

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