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1 | The United Kingdom was an occupying power in Iraq from May 2003, and a mandatory power acting in support of the Iraqi government from June 2004 until her withdrawal in 2011.
She was a mandatory power in Afghanistan between December 2001 and her withdrawal early in 2015.
In both countries, the United Kingdoms internatio... | This judgment is one of three being given simultaneously on the liabilities of the United Kingdom government for allegedly tortious acts done by HM Forces in the course of operations overseas or by foreign governments in which UK officials are alleged to have been complicit.
This particular judgment deals with allegati... | 16.2 | long | 471 |
2 | The appeals now before the Supreme Court in Belhaj and Boudchar v Straw and Ministry of Defence v Rahmatullah concern the alleged complicity of United Kingdom authorities and officials in various torts, allegedly committed by various other states in various overseas jurisdictions.
The torts alleged include unlawful det... | This judgment is one of a number given by the Supreme Court today on issues arising from alleged complicity of United Kingdom officials in allegedly tortious acts of the UK or other states overseas.
Mr Belhaj and his wife were detained in Kuala Lumpur in 2004.
The respondents allege that MI6 informed the Libyan authori... | 15.8 | long | 53 |
3 | These appeals arise out of tragic facts and raise difficult and significant issues, namely whether the present state of the law of England and Wales relating to assisting suicide infringes the European Convention on Human Rights, and whether the code published by the Director of Public Prosecutions (the DPP) relating t... | These appeals arise from tragic facts and raise difficult and significant issues, namely whether the present state of the law of England and Wales relating to assisting suicide infringes the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention), and whether the code published by the Director of Public Prosecutions (the ... | 15.8 | long | 302 |
4 | This has proved an unusually difficult case to resolve.
Not only are the substantive issues, relating to the compatibility of abortion law in Northern Ireland with articles 3 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the ECHR or the Convention), of considerable depth and sensitivity; but there is also the proce... | Ss. 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 (an Act of the UK Parliament) (the 1861 Act) and s.25(1) of the Criminal Justice Act (NI) 1945 (an Act of the Northern Ireland legislature) (the 1945 Act) criminalise abortion in Northern Ireland.
It is not however a crime to receive or supply an abortion where ... | 16.5 | long | 414 |
5 | Private Jason Smith joined the Territorial Army in 1992, when he was 21 years old.
In June 2003 he was mobilised for service in Iraq.
On 26 June 2003, after a brief spell in Kuwait for purposes of acclimatisation, he arrived at Camp Abu Naji, which was to be his base in Iraq.
From there he was moved to an old athletics... | Private Jason Smith, a member of the Territorial Army since 1992, was mobilised for service in Iraq in June 2003.
After acclimatising for a short period in Kuwait he was sent to a base in Iraq, from where he was billeted in an old athletics stadium.
By August the daytime temperature in the shade was exceeding 50 degree... | 16.8 | long | 22 |
6 | This appeal concerns the correctness of two of the most important decisions on the law of limitation of recent times: the decisions of the House of Lords in Kleinwort Benson Ltd v Lincoln City Council [1999] 2 AC 349 (Kleinwort Benson) and Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Group plc v Inland Revenue Comrs [2006] UKHL 49; [2007]... | This appeal arises in the course of long running proceedings known as the Franked Investment Income (FII) Group Litigation.
The FII Group Litigation brings together many claims concerning the way in which advance corporation tax and corporation tax used to be charged on dividends received by UK resident companies from ... | 16.6 | long | 426 |
7 | On 2 December 2010 the Swedish Prosecution Authority (the Prosecutor), who is the respondent to this appeal, issued a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) signed by Marianne Ny, a prosecutor, requesting the arrest and surrender of Mr Assange, the appellant.
Mr Assange was, at the time, in England, as he still is.
The offences... | The appellant, Mr Assange, is the subject of a request for extradition by the Swedish Prosecuting Authority for the purposes of an investigation into alleged offences of sexual molestation and rape.
Mr Assange is in England.
A domestic detention order was made by the Stockholm District Court in Mr Assanges absence, and... | 15.3 | long | 123 |
8 | This judgment is concerned with two connected questions: (i) (ii) Is it possible in principle for the Supreme Court to adopt a closed material procedure on an appeal? If so, Is it appropriate to adopt a closed material procedure on this particular appeal? A closed material procedure involves the production of material ... | This appeal concerns the use of a closed material procedure (CMP) in the Supreme Court.
A CMP involves the production of material which is so confidential and sensitive that it requires the court not only to sit in private, but to sit in a closed hearing.
At a closed hearing, the court considers the material and hears ... | 15.8 | long | 152 |
9 | Where an international commercial contract contains an agreement to resolve disputes by arbitration, at least three systems of national law are engaged when a dispute occurs.
They are: the law governing the substance of the dispute; the law governing the agreement to arbitrate; and the law governing the arbitration pro... | The central issue on this appeal is how the governing law of an arbitration agreement is to be determined when the law applicable to the contract containing it differs from the law of the seat of the arbitration, the place chosen for the arbitration in the arbitration agreement.
On 1 February 2016, a power plant in Rus... | 16.2 | long | 254 |
10 | Very substantial judgments have been prepared in this case by Lord Walker, Lord Reed and Lord Sumption, to each of which I pay tribute.
I wish in this short introduction to do two things.
First, I shall say a bit about the background, to assist the reader in understanding at the outset what the issues are and to provid... | The Appellants are all companies which belong to groups which have UK resident parents and also have foreign subsidiaries, both in the European Union and elsewhere.
The purpose of the litigation was to determine various questions of law arising from the tax treatment of dividends received by UK resident companies from ... | 15.5 | long | 135 |
11 | On 11 September 2014, the Cleveland Meat Company Ltd (CMC) bought a live bull at the Darlington Farmers Auction Mart for 1,361.20.
The bull was passed fit for slaughter by the Official Veterinarian (OV) stationed at CMCs slaughterhouse.
It was assigned a kill number of 77 and slaughtered.
A post mortem inspection of bo... | Cleveland Meat Company Ltd (CMC) bought a bull at auction.
It was passed fit for slaughter by the Official Veterinarian (OV) stationed at its slaughterhouse.
After a post mortem inspection of the carcass, and discussion with a Meat Hygiene Inspector, the OV declared the meat unfit for human consumption.
It did not ther... | 15 | 0-8k | 230 |
12 | When is it lawful for a local housing authority to accommodate a homeless person a long way away from the authoritys own area where the homeless person was previously living? There is no doubt that, for a variety of reasons, such out of borough placements have become increasingly common in recent years.
The latest nati... | The question arising in this appeal is whether it is lawful for a local housing authority to accommodate a homeless person a long way away from the authoritys own area where the homeless person was previously living.
Local authorities have a statutory duty to provide accommodation in their own area so far as reasonably... | 15.3 | 0-8k | 535 |
13 | This case is about the employment status of district judges, but it could apply to the holder of any judicial office.
The issue is whether a district judge qualifies as a worker or a person in Crown employment for the purpose of the protection given to whistle blowers under Part IVA of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (t... | The issue in the appeal is whether a District Judge qualifies as a worker or a person in Crown employment for the purpose of the protection given to whistle blowers under Part IVA of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (the 1996 Act).
If not, is this discrimination against her in the enjoyment of her right to freedom of exp... | 16.5 | 0-8k | 4 |
14 | This appeal raises a well formulated issue as to the construction of section 21 of the Limitation Act 1980, and a rather more diffuse question as to the meaning and application of section 32 of the Act, in both cases in relation to what is assumed to have been (although this is hotly contested in the proceedings) an un... | Prior to 4 October 2007, Mr and Mrs Fielding, (the Defendants) were directors and controlling shareholders of Burnden Holdings (UK) Limited (the Claimant).
The Claimant was the holding company of a number of trading subsidiaries, including Vital Energi Utilities Ltd (Vital).
On 4 October 2007, the shareholders of the C... | 16.9 | 0-8k | 68 |
15 | On 21 March 2016, this court gave a father permission to appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal that a custody order which he had obtained in Romania should not be enforced in this country under the Brussels II (Revised) Regulation (BIIR), because it had been given without the child having been given an opp... | These proceedings concern a child, called DD in the judgment, who was born in 2006 in Romania, to Romanian parents who met while working in England.
The family returned to England after the birth.
The parents separated in 2007 and DD has lived in England since then in the care of his mother.
The father returned to Roma... | 15.1 | 0-8k | 444 |
16 | From time to time over many years the Secretary of State for the Home Department has been concerned to deport a foreign national on the grounds of national security.
Sometimes, indeed with increasing frequency, those facing such deportation decisions have wished to contest them, either by challenging that they present ... | The appellants, all Algerian nationals, were suspected terrorists whom the Secretary of State proposed to deport to Algeria.
It was common ground that Algeria was a country where torture was systematically practised by state officials and no state official had ever been prosecuted for it.
The Secretary of State obtaine... | 15.9 | 0-8k | 164 |
17 | I have had the advantage of reading in draft the opinion which has been prepared by Lord Mance, and I agree with it.
For the reasons he gives, I would dismiss the appeal.
LORD RODGER
I too have had the advantage of considering in draft the opinion prepared by Lord Mance.
I agree with it and, for the reasons which he gi... | Mr Louca is a Cypriot national resident in the UK.
His extradition is sought by the Office of the Public Prosecutor of Bielefeld, Germany, for six offences of tax evasion under a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) dated 14 July 2008.
Two previous EAWs had been issued by the German Prosecutor, each resulting in the arrest of... | 15.6 | 0-8k | 316 |
18 | Section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971 extends a persons leave to remain pending determination of an application to vary the period of leave, provided that the application is made before the expiry of the original leave.
The principal issue raised by these three appeals is how section 3C applies where an application is... | Section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971 extends a persons leave to remain pending determination of an application to vary the period of leave, so long as the application is made before the original leave has expired.
All three appeals before the Court raise the issue of how section 3C applies where an application is mad... | 14.7 | 0-8k | 354 |
19 | When a person is facing insolvency, a possible alternative to sequestration is a voluntary arrangement with his creditors.
Under Scots law, this usually takes the form of a deed granted by the debtor, conveying his property to a trustee for the benefit of his creditors.
The trustee is given powers to collect and realis... | In September 2006, Mr Davidson (the Second Respondent) entered into a trust deed for the benefit of his creditors.
It was a protected trust deed to which provisions of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985 (1985 Act) applied.
Clause 11 of the deed provided for the deeds termination on the occurrence of one of three events... | 14.6 | 0-8k | 323 |
20 | This appeal relates to personal independence payment, which is a non means tested allowance paid to certain people with long term health problems or disability.
The appeals focus is upon one of the markers used to determine whether a claimants ability to live his or her daily life is limited, by his or her physical or ... | This appeal concerns the assessment of claimants for personal independence payment (PIP), a non means tested allowance paid to certain people with long term health problems or disability.
The appeals focus is on one of the markers used to determine the extent to which the ability of claimants to carry out daily living ... | 16.8 | 0-8k | 26 |
21 | These appeals are brought by a Polish national, Roksana Mirga, and an Austrian national, Wadi Samin, against decisions of the Court of Appeal upholding determinations that they were not entitled to certain benefits, namely income support and housing assistance respectively, pursuant to the provisions of United Kingdom ... | These two appeals concern the claims of two EU nationals to claim benefits in the United Kingdom.
Ms Mirga was born in Poland and, having previously lived in the UK with her parents for four years, moved back here in 2004.
The benefit rights of people from Poland in the UK were mostly governed by the Accession (Immigra... | 17.4 | 8k-16k | 99 |
22 | This appeal concerns the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (25 October 1980) (the Abduction Convention).
It raises general questions relating to: the place which the habitual residence of the child occupies in the (1) scheme of that Convention, and (2) whether and when a wrongful re... | This matter centres around a married man and woman who, until 2015, had been living together in Australia with their two children.
By the end of 2014 the marriage was in difficulties.
The mother, who holds British citizenship, wanted to make a trip to England with the children before returning to work from maternity le... | 14.1 | 8k-16k | 55 |
23 | This appeal concerns a tax avoidance scheme by which employers paid remuneration to their employees through an employees remuneration trust in the hope that the scheme would avoid liability to income tax and Class 1 national insurance contributions (NICs).
The appeal raises a fundamental question about the nature of th... | RFC 2012 Plc (RFC) was a member of a group of companies whose parent company was Murray International Holdings Ltd. By a deed dated 20 April 2001, Murray Group Management Ltd, which was also a member of the group, set up a trust known as the Remuneration Trust (the Principal Trust).
When a group company wished to benef... | 14.7 | 8k-16k | 533 |
24 | The respondent Mr Frank Perry is a retired miner.
Like very many of his colleagues he had, by the time he ceased working underground in 1994, been afflicted with a condition known as Vibration White Finger (VWF) , which is a particular type of a wider species of condition affecting the hand and the upper limbs collecti... | The respondent, Mr Perry, is a retired miner.
By the time he stopped working, he was suffering from a condition known as Vibration White Finger (VWF).
Common symptoms include a reduction in grip strength and manual dexterity, often leading to an inability to carry out routine domestic tasks unaided.
In the late 1990s, ... | 17 | 8k-16k | 250 |
25 | The appellants are former employees of the London Borough of Lewisham (the council).
They worked in the councils leisure department until 2002.
Their part of the councils undertaking was then contracted out to a private sector employer named CCL Ltd and they were transferred into its employment.
In May 2004 CCLs undert... | The issue in this appeal is whether, where there has been a transfer of employees to which the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 (TUPE) apply, the new employer is bound by a term of an employees contract of employment which provides that terms and conditions of employment will be in a... | 16.3 | 8k-16k | 236 |
26 | This appeal challenges the validity of two patents, which seek to confer a monopoly over the creation of a range of types of transgenic mouse.
The subject matter, genetic engineering for medical purposes, is of great technical complexity, but the legal question which falls for determination in this court may be quite s... | In 2001 Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc filed patents for a new type of genetically modified mouse.
Regenerons breakthrough was a hybrid version of the gene that produces antibodies, combining a section of the mouses genetic material (the constant region DNA) with a section of genetic material from a human (the variable ... | 16.2 | 8k-16k | 60 |
27 | The question raised by this appeal is whether there exists a power under the Immigration Act 1971 (the 1971 Act) to grant immigration bail to a person who can no longer be lawfully detained.
Factual Background
B has a long and complex immigration history which it is necessary to refer to in some detail.
He has been in ... | The Respondent (B) has been in the UK since 1993.
He was originally detained under section 21 of the Anti Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 and was subsequently subject to a control order under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005.
On 11 August 2005, he was notified of the Secretary of States intention to make a d... | 15.1 | 8k-16k | 431 |
28 | This appeal is about whether the appellant, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), should have to put up a further USD 100m security (in addition to USD 80m already provided) in respect of a Nigerian arbitration award which the respondent, IPCO (Nigeria) Ltd (IPCO), has been seeking since November 2004 to enfo... | This appeal concerns the enforcement in England of a Nigerian arbitration award dated 28 October 2004 for USD 152,195,971 plus 5m Nigerian Naira in respect of a contract by which IPCO (Nigeria) Limited (IPCO) undertook to design and construct a petroleum export terminal for Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC... | 15.6 | 8k-16k | 242 |
29 | Supplies of education to students in the United Kingdom are exempt from value added tax (VAT) if they are made by a college of a university within the meaning of Note 1(b) to Item 1, Group 6 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (the VAT Act).
This appeal concerns the criteria to be applied in determining whether an undertak... | Supplies of education to students in the United Kingdom are exempt from value added tax (VAT) if they are made by a college of a university within the meaning of Note 1(b) to Item 1, Group 6 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (the VAT Act).
The appellant (SEL) contends that its supplies of education to students in the Uni... | 16.6 | 8k-16k | 20 |
30 | Mr Achilles Macriss complaint is that without giving him a chance to make representations in his own defence, the Financial Conduct Authority has published a notice imposing a penalty on his former employer for various irregularities in the conduct of its business, in terms which identify him as the person responsible.... | In 2012 Mr Macris was the International Chief Investment Officer of JP Morgan Chase Bank NA and, in that capacity, head of the banks Chief Investment Office (CIO International).
Part of CIO Internationals function was to manage a portfolio of traded credit instruments called the Synthetic Credit Portfolio.
The Financia... | 14.9 | 8k-16k | 497 |
31 | This appeal raises three questions.
The first is whether a court, when entertaining a claim for possession by a private sector owner against a residential occupier, should be required to consider the proportionality of evicting the occupier, in the light of section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 and article 8 of the Eu... | The appellant, Fiona McDonald, is aged 45 and suffers from a personality disorder.
In May 2005 her parents purchased 25 Broadway Close, Witney (the property), as a home for her, with the assistance of a loan from Capital Home Loans Ltd (CHL), which was secured by way of a registered legal charge over the property.
From... | 16.8 | 8k-16k | 105 |
32 | Birmingham City Council (Birmingham) appeals against the order of the Court of Appeal (Mummery and Davis LJJ and Dame Janet Smith) dated 29 November 2011, whereby it dismissed Birminghams appeal against the order of Mr Colin Edelman QC, sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court, Queens Bench Division, dated 17 Decemb... | The issue in this appeal is whether the court should exercise its discretion to strike out the equal pay claims of the respondents, which have been brought in the High Court, on the ground that they could more conveniently be disposed of in an employment tribunal, notwithstanding the fact that the claims there would be... | 16.5 | 8k-16k | 526 |
33 | The question on this appeal is whether a bingo promoter is entitled to a refund of Value Added Tax (VAT) paid to the Commissioners of Her Majestys Revenue and Customs (HMRC) over many years on fees charged to customers for the right to play bingo.
The question itself has only retrospective significance, as VAT on comme... | The Appellant (the taxpayer) operates bingo clubs.
Customers pay a fee, which entitles them to play in a number of bingo games (collectively, a session).
There is no obligation to play every game in a session.
Prizes are paid to those who win games.
VAT is charged on the supply of goods or services.
Council Directive (... | 15.1 | 8k-16k | 154 |
34 | The question at issue on this appeal is whether a sewerage undertaker under the Water Industry Act 1991 has a statutory right to discharge surface water and treated effluent into private watercourses such as the Respondents canals without the consent of their owners.
Discharge into a private watercourse is an entry on ... | The question at issue on this appeal is whether, under the Water Industry Act 1991, a sewerage undertaker has a statutory right to discharge surface water and treated effluent into private watercourses such as the Respondents canals without the consent of their owners and, if so, whether the right extends to any sewer ... | 17.6 | 8k-16k | 434 |
35 | This appeal concerns the interpretation and application of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (the Act).
The appellant is a patient detained in the State Hospital at Carstairs who made an application to the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland (the tribunal) for an order under section 264(2) of t... | This appeal concerns provisions of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (the Act) designed to address the problem of entrapped patients, namely those who no longer require the level of security afforded by the state hospital but for whom appropriate local services are not available [3 11].
The app... | 16.2 | 8k-16k | 181 |
36 | This appeal was heard by this Panel on 10 and 11 February 2010.
On 14 April 2010, while we were still considering our decision upon it, we were asked to consider applications for permission to appeal in two other cases in which foreign national prisoners had been detained pending their deportation after completing thei... | The issue in this appeal is whether a failure by the Respondent to comply with a procedural requirement in its policy relating to the detention of foreign national prisoners results in their detention being unlawful, so as to allow the detainee to advance a claim in tort for false imprisonment.
Shepherd Masimba Kambadz... | 13.4 | 16k+ | 42 |
37 | There are two appeals before the court: Rubin v Eurofinance SA (Rubin) and New Cap Reinsurance Corpn Ltd v Grant (New Cap).
These appeals raise an important and novel issue in international insolvency law.
The issue is whether, and if so, in what circumstances, an order or judgment of a foreign court (on these appeals ... | The two appeals concern whether, and if so, in what circumstances, an order or judgment of a foreign court in proceedings to set aside prior transactions, such as preferences or transactions at an undervalue (avoidance proceedings), will be recognised and enforced in England and Wales.
The appeals also raise the questi... | 18.3 | 16k+ | 440 |
38 | The common law has long protected the liberty of the subject, through the machinery of habeas corpus and the tort of false imprisonment.
Likewise, article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights begins: Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person.
No one shall be deprived of his liberty save in the fo... | The issue in this appeal is whether it is within the scope of parental responsibility to consent to living arrangements for a 16 or 17 year old child which would otherwise amount to a deprivation of liberty within the meaning of article 5 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), in particular where the child ... | 15.6 | 16k+ | 278 |
39 | In early 2006 the appellant, The United States of America, decided for strategic reasons to close the watercraft repair centre, known as RSA Hythe, which the United States Army maintained in Hampshire.
The respondent, Mrs Nolan, was employed there as a civilian budget assistant, and the closure on 30 September 2006 inv... | In 2006 the United States of America (USA) closed a watercraft repair centre (the Base) which it maintained in Hampshire.
Mrs Nolan was employed at the Base by the appellant and was dismissed for redundancy the day before it closed.
Mrs Nolan complained that the appellant had failed to consult with any employee represe... | 16.7 | 16k+ | 15 |
40 | The transactions with which this appeal is concerned arose during a period when sale and rent back transactions were common.
They were what was described by the Office of Fair Trading in 2008 (Sale and rent back: An OFT market study) as a relatively new type of property transaction whereby firms bought homes from indiv... | This is an appeal in a test case arising from sale and rent back transactions in the north east of England.
Home owners like the appellant, Mrs Scott, were persuaded to sell their properties to purchasers who promised them the right to remain in their homes for years as tenants after the sale.
The purchasers bought the... | 15.7 | 16k+ | 134 |
41 | The specific issue raised by this appeal is whether, following receipt of a statutory notice from an inspector of taxes to produce documents in connection with its tax affairs, a company is entitled to refuse to comply on the ground that the documents are covered by legal advice privilege (LAP), in a case where the leg... | This appeal concerns the scope of legal advice privilege.
Legal advice privilege applies to all communications passing between a client and its lawyers, acting in their professional capacity, in connection with the provision of legal advice.
The specific issue raised by this appeal is whether, following receipt of a st... | 16.7 | 16k+ | 330 |
42 | This case concerns the framework which will govern an application for the grant of development consent for the construction of a third runway at Heathrow Airport.
This is a development scheme promoted by the appellant, Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL), the owner of the airport.
As a result of consideration over a long period... | This appeal concerns the lawfulness of the Airports National Policy Statement (the ANPS) and its accompanying environmental report.
The ANPS is the national policy framework which governs the construction of a third runway at Heathrow Airport.
Any future application for development consent to build this runway will be ... | 16.9 | 16k+ | 33 |
43 | This appeal is about the distribution of European Structural Funds among the regions of the United Kingdom.
It arises out of the complaint of a number of local authorities in Merseyside and South Yorkshire about the way in which it is proposed to distribute funds allocated to the United Kingdom for the years 2014 to 20... | The European Union distributes money from European Structural Funds to Member States in order to promote the overall harmonious development of the EU and in particular to reduce disparities between the levels of development of the various regions and the backwardness of the least favoured regions (Article 174 TFEU).
Fu... | 15.8 | 16k+ | 5 |
44 | These are three of five conjoined appeals which were heard by the Court of Appeal in Salford City Council v Mullen [2010] EWCA Civ 336, [2010] LGR 559.
They are concerned with possession proceedings brought by a local authority in circumstances where the occupier is not a secure tenant under Part IV of the Housing Act ... | These appeals concern the making of orders for possession of a persons home in favour of a local authority.
The issue is whether, in circumstances where the occupier is not a secure tenant, the court that makes the order must consider the proportionality of making it.
Most residential occupiers of property owned by loc... | 15.4 | 16k+ | 219 |
45 | These are three of five conjoined appeals which were heard by the Court of Appeal in Salford City Council v Mullen [2010] EWCA Civ 336, [2010] LGR 559.
They are concerned with possession proceedings brought by a local authority in circumstances where the occupier is not a secure tenant under Part IV of the Housing Act ... | These appeals concern the making of orders for possession of a persons home in favour of a local authority.
The issue is whether, in circumstances where the occupier is not a secure tenant, the court that makes the order must consider the proportionality of making it.
Most residential occupiers of property owned by loc... | 15.4 | 16k+ | 350 |
46 | As is common knowledge, the whole system of funding higher education was reformed, broadly in accordance with the recommendations of Lord Brownes Report, Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education (October 2010), in 2011.
The aims were further to widen participation in higher education, so that everyone who had... | In 2011 the fees charged by universities were increased.
The cost of fees and maintenance are generally financed by loans from the Government, which are only repaid when students can afford to do so and at an affordable rate.
In order to qualify for a loan under Regulation 4(a) of the Education (Student Support) Regula... | 15.3 | 16k+ | 333 |
47 | The issue surrounds out of country appeals.
These are appeals against immigration decisions made by the Home Secretary which immigrants are entitled to bring before the First tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) (the tribunal) but only if they bring them when they are outside the UK.
Mr Kiarie, the first appe... | Mr Kiarie has Kenyan nationality.
He came to the UK in 1997 with his family at the age of three.
Mr Byndloss has Jamaican nationality.
He has lived in the UK since the age of 21 and has a wife and children living in the UK.
Following their separate convictions for serious drug related offences, in October 2014 the resp... | 16.3 | 16k+ | 467 |
48 | This appeal by the Secretary of State for the Home Department concerns five individuals, the respondents, who arrived in the United Kingdom illegally and claimed asylum.
Inquiries revealed that they had travelled to the United Kingdom via at least one other member state of the European Union in which they had already c... | The five respondents arrived in the United Kingdom illegally and claimed asylum.
They had all travelled to the United Kingdom via at least one other member state of the European Union in which they had already claimed asylum.
In each case, the Secretary of State requested those states to take responsibility for examini... | 15.7 | 16k+ | 478 |
49 | This appeal concerns the question whether the provisions of Part 4 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 lie within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament.
Before considering the issues that arise (summarised in para 26 below), it is helpful to begin with an account of the background to th... | The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (the 2014 Act) makes provision for a named person service (the NPS) in relation to children and young people (C&YP) in Scotland.
The NPS establishes the new professional role of the named person, and envisages that all C&YP in Scotland will be assigned a named person.
T... | 16.7 | 16k+ | 59 |
50 | The central issue in this case is whether Ms Tamara Gubeladze (the respondent), a Latvian national living in the United Kingdom, is entitled to receive state pension credit, a means tested benefit.
She relies on regulation 5(2) of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/1003) (the 2006 Regula... | By a Treaty signed at Athens on 16 April 2003 (the Athens Treaty), ten Accession States became member states of the EU.
The Act of Accession, annexed to the Athens Treaty, permitted the existing member states to apply national measures regulating access to their labour markets by nationals of the eight most populous Ac... | 18 | 16k+ | 261 |
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