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Bloomsbury International Ltd v Sea Fish Industry Authority and DEFRA [2011] UKSC 25 has its origins in a claim brought by importers unhappy with the imposition of a levy. For the purpose of financing its activities, the Authority has the power, pursuan…

The practice of tail docking is contentious. It involves the amputation of a puppy’s tail and is performed without…

The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 radically reshaped the landscape of tribunal justice in the United Kingdom. The Act took the diverse array of tribunals that previously existed and, for the first time, consolidated most of them within a s…

On 24 November 2010, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in Holland v The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs and another [2010] UKSC 51.  The panel consisted of Lords Hope, Saville, Walker, Collins and Clarke.
The case concer…

Southern Pacific Securities 05-2 Plc v Walker & Anor [2010] UKSC 32 A brief note on this case, which concerned the enforceability of a credit agreement secured on the Walker’s property. Our report on the Court of Appeal decision is here, and there is little to add in this note, because the Supreme Court in [...]

By Oliver Gayner and Cathryn Hopkins, Olswang

In Rainy Sky v Kookmin Bank, in which judgment was handed down on Wednesday, the…

The Argentinian debt crisis of 2001 – 2003, and subsequent restructurings, have kept commercial lawyers busy all over the globe as investors have sought to recoup as much of their investments into the country as possible.  In NML Capital v Argentina…

By Anita Davies
In the case preview for R v Gnango, it was suggested that the question facing the Supreme…

On 16 December judgment was handed down in the widely reported JFS case. The appeal itself was heard by the Supreme Court sitting as a nine judge court, reflecting the importance of the issues raised by the appeal. The judgments are ordered not by the …

Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) have become buzz words used by litigators over the past few years. Sadly…

The Supreme Court (by a 4:1 majority) has allowed an appeal by The Governors of X School, overturning the Court of Appeal’s decision that a teaching assistant’s rights under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights  had been breached b…

By Claire Darwin, Matrix
In August 2010, the Supreme Court unanimously referred the appeal of Mr O’Brien QC, a former fee-paid…

In its recent decision in Re Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander Ltd and Re the Insolvency Act 1986 [2011] UKSC 48, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the High Court’s decision in Mill & Ors v HSBC Trustee (C.I.) Ltd & Ors [2009] EW…

The Supreme Court has decided that guidance is needed from the CJEU on a number of issues relating to the scope of the principle of equivalence.
This is the principle of EU law which requires that the procedural rules relating to the domestic enforceme…

The Supreme Court’s decision in Re E can be seen in some ways as guiding interpretation of Article 13(b) of the Hague Convention ‘back on track’, following the decision of the ECHR last year in Neulinger and Shuruk v Switzerland [2011] 1 FLR 122….

Wychavon DC v EM  is a double decision, so to speak, by Judge Mark on a housing benefit matter, with…

In Gale v Serious Organised Crime Agency, the UK Supreme Court sent a simple message to Strasbourg: if we are duty bound to follow decisions of the ECtHR then, at least in this area, they need to be clearer. A new decision from the Grand Chamber on thi…