Woodland (Appellant) v Essex County Council (Respondent) – Supreme Court
Woodland (Appellant) v Essex County Council (Respondent) [2013] UKSC 66 | UKSC 2012/0093 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 23rd October 2013
Category: Supreme Court
Szepietowski (Nee Seery) (Appellant) v The National Crime Agency (Respondent) – Supreme Court
Supreme Court, 23rd October 2013
R v Gul (Appellant) – Supreme Court
R v Gul (Appellant) 2013] UKSC 64 | UKSC 2012/0124 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 23rd October 2013
Woodland v Swimming Teachers Association and others – WLR Daily
Woodland v Swimming Teachers Association and others [2013] UKSC 66; [2013] WLR (D) 403
“The essential feature of a non-delegable duty of reasonable care was that a defendant had control over a vulnerable claimant for the purpose of performing a function for which the defendant had assumed responsibility.”
WLR Daily, 23rd October 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
The Supreme Court ruling in Woodland v Essex County Council: the reaction – Local Government Lawyer
“The relationship between public bodies and independent contractors has been thrown into sharp relief by yesterday’s Supreme Court judgment in the Woodland case. Local Government Lawyer looks at the reaction to the ruling.”
Local Government Lawyer, 24th October 2013
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Supreme Court considers definition of “terrorism” – UK Human Rights Blog
“R v Gul (Appellant) [2013] UKSC 64, 23 October 2013 – It is a platitude that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. It is for precisely this reason that the international community has not been able to agree on a definition of terrorism to be embedded in international law. The issue in this appeal was whether the definition of ‘terrorism’ in the UK Terrorism Act 2000 includes military attacks by non-state armed groups against national or international armed forces in a non-international armed conflict.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 23rd October 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Annie Woodland wins landmark case over near drowning – BBC News
“A woman who almost drowned in a school swimming lesson 13 years ago has won a landmark case at the Supreme Court.”
BBC News, 23rd October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
A Rough Guide to the Civil Appeal System in England and Wales – Garden Court Chambers Blog
“As part of a recent EU project, Marc Willers has produced this rough guide to the Civil Appeal System in England and Wales.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 22nd October 2013
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
Regina (Chester) v Secretary of State for Justice and another; McGeoch v Lord President of the Council and another – WLR Daily
“The statutory blanket ban on convicted prisoners voting was incompatible with article 3 of the First Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. However, where a declaration of incompatibility had already been made in other proceedings and the matter was under active consideration by Parliament, a further declaration of incompatibility, being a discretionary remedy, was not appropriate.”
WLR Daily, 16th October 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Mittal v. Mittal: English Family Courts Still Open for Business in the Wider World – Family Law Week
“Tim Amos QC and Duncan Brooks of Queen Elizabeth Building, counsel for the respondent, consider the issues and implications of the Court of Appeal’s important judgment in Mittal v Mittal.”
Family Law Week, 20th October 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
The latest prisoner votes judgment may be our Marbury v Madison – UK Human Rights Blog
“At first glance, prisoner voting proponents may interpret the Supreme Court’s R (Chester) v Justice Secretary decision (see Adam Wagner’s previous post) as a defeat for advancing prisoner voting rights in the UK. This blog post offers a different perspective. By comparing Chester to the seminal US Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison, we summarise that such proponents should take a step back and see the wood, rather than merely the trees. This is because Lord Mance’s Chester judgment offers human rights advocates, and therefore supporters of prisoner voting rights, an unequivocal foundation from which to defend future human rights claims.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th October 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Ruvi Ziegler: The missing right to vote: The UK Supreme Court’s judgment in Chester and McGeoch – UK Constitutional Law Group
“On 16 October 2013, a seven-judge panel of the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) unanimously rejected two challenges (R (Chester) v Secretary of State for Justice and McGeoch v The Lord President of the Council & Anor and the judgment summary) brought by prisoners serving terms of life imprisonment against their disenfranchisement in UK national elections pursuant to section 3(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (RPA) and in EU Parliamentary elections and UK local elections pursuant to section 8(2) of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 21st October 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
Legal claims ‘could paralyse’ armed forces – BBC News
“A ‘sustained legal assault’ on British forces could have ‘catastrophic consequences’ for the safety of the nation, an influential right-leaning think tank has warned.”
BBC News, 18th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
UK Supreme Court judgment: R (Chester) v Justice Secretary, McGeoch v Lord President – Head of Legal
“It’s no surprise that the Supreme Court has today unanimously dismissed appeals by two prisoners who wanted various remedies under the Human Rights Act and EU law for being denied the vote in Parliamentary, local, Scottish Parliament and European elections. These cases were always weak.”
Head of Legal, 16th October 2013
Source: www.headoflegal.com
This Supreme Court prisoner voting decision really is a victory for common sense – UK Human Rights Blog
“The Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling recently told The Spectator that he wants ‘to see our Supreme Court being supreme again’. In light of his respect for the court, he should read today’s judgment on prisoner votes very carefully indeed, as should David Cameron who has already endorsed the decision as a ‘great victory for common sense’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 16th October 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Prisoners’ right-to-vote appeal rejected by supreme court – The Guardian
“Two convicted murderers who argued that European Union law gave them the right to vote in UK elections have had their appeals dismissed by the supreme court at Westminster.”
The Guardian, 16th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Richard Cornes: 11-1 gender ratio Court’s Achilles Heel: Reporting of the Supreme Court’s start of the year press briefing – UK Constitutional Law Group
“On October 2 at 10am, the United Kingdom Supreme Court held an hour long pre-term press-briefing to mark the opening of the Court’s fifth year. This blog looks not only at what was said by the Court, and asked by the journalists on the day, but also what was then reported.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 16th October 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
Prisoner votes Supreme Court decision expected – BBC News
“The Supreme Court will rule later whether prisoners have the right to vote under European Union rules – even though they cannot under British law.”
BBC News, 16th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Landmark Supreme Court cases on deprivations of liberty to start next week – Local Government Lawyer
“A panel of seven justices at the Supreme Court will next week hear two landmark cases on deprivations of liberty.”
Local Government Lawyer, 15th October 2013
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
