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Unanimous Supreme Court: Rwanda removals are unlawful
R ((AAA) Syria and Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] UKSC 42 The Government’s flagship policy of removing individual asylum seekers to Rwanda for their claims to be decided...
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Doctor’s suspension after questioning the severity of Covid 19 did not breach...
This was an appeal by a doctor against a decision of the medical practitioners’ tribunal that he was guilty of misconduct. He also appealed against the tribunal’s decision to suspend his registration...
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Is an Artificial Neural Network ineligible for patent protection?
This fascinating case is imperative reading for anyone not computer literate who wishes to understand the concept of an Artificial Neural Network. In recent times the courts have had to grapple with...
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The Weekly Round-up: Gaza reprieve, Covid-19 Inquiry continues, and oil-spill...
In the news Fighting in Gaza paused this weekend, as Hamas and Israel agreed to a temporary, four-day reprieve. Twenty-six hostages have been released by Hamas and 39 Palestinian detainees held in...
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The Weekly Round-Up: Bibby Stockholm, Children’s Rights, and Illegal Evictions
In the news The Fire Brigades Union has sent a pre-action protocol letter to the Home Secretary threatening judicial review of her alleged failure to address “serious fire and operational safety...
View ArticleLet’s talk about sex: case note on For Women Scotland Limited v The Scottish...
In For Women Scotland Limited v The Scottish Ministers [2023] CSIH 37 (“For Women Scotland 2”), the Inner House of the Court of Session has confirmed (for Scotland, at least) the relationship between...
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Law Pod UK latest: Toxic Torts
Episode 190: join environmental law expert David Hart KC of 1 Crown Office Row and Roy Harrison, professor of public health and expert in airborne emissions of Birmingham University, for a fascinating...
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Defra’s generic plan for river clean up unlawful – local focus on water...
Brief Overview This interesting case concerns a problem endemic to the manner of regulating water bodies under the Water Framework Directive and the regulations passed under it. This is what happened....
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A newcomer to the world of injunctions
Factual background The appeal in Wolverhampton City Council and others v London Gypsies and Travellers and others [2023] UKSC 47 concerned injunctions obtained by over 38 different local authorities...
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Griffiths v. TUI UK Limited: Evidence, Challenge and Fairness
Overview The central question facing the Supreme Court in Griffiths v TUI UK Limited [2023] UKSC 48 concerned the extent to which a party must put criticisms of a witness’ evidence to him in...
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Law Pod UK latest episode: The Most Significant Cases of 2023
In Episode 191 Jon Metzer and Lucy McCann join Rosalind English to review the judgements and decisions of the past year that we at Law Pod UK consider to have the most important implications for the...
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The mirror crack’d from side to side: Dalton’s application for judicial...
In Lord Tennyson’s Arthurian ballad ‘The Lady of Shalott’, the eponymous heroine is stranded in her island castle. Continually weaving a web in her loom of the reflections of the outside world she...
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The Weekly Round-up: The Troubles legacy act, French migration, and Colorado...
In the News The Irish government has announced it will challenge the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 in the European Court of Human Rights. The Act, which came into...
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Weekly Round-up: Horizon IT, Jeffrey Epstein, Idaho abortion ban
In the news The Post Office is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police for potential fraud offences committed in what has been termed the Horizon IT Scandal. This investigation builds on a...
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Law Pod UK New Episode: Scope of Duty since Khan v Meadows
In Episode 192 of Law Pod UK Rachel Marcus and Marcus Coates-Walker of 1 Crown Office Row join Lucy McCann to explore the principle of the scope of duty in the context of clinical negligence claims:...
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Financial Sanction and Free Speech in the High Court
Background Graham Phillips, the Claimant, is a British national and video blogger who posts content from the Donbass dressed in Russian military fatigues. He says he is a journalist who provides a...
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Top Cases of 2023: the good, the bad and the legally complicated
As the dust settles on another year, it is (just about still) time to look back over the year gone to review some of the most dramatic, legally interesting or impactful cases of the year gone by. As...
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The Weekly Round-Up: Provisional Measures for Gaza, Warning on Rwanda, &...
In the News On Friday, A 17-judge panel at the International Court of Justice delivered an interim ruling imposing provisional measures on the state of Israel in order to alleviate the ‘catastrophic...
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Sanctions can be imposed on British subject
Philips v Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs [2024] EWHC 32 (Admin) This application for judicial review raised an interesting and novel question. Could a private...
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Law Pod UK New Episode: Secondary Victims
Paul v Wolverhampton NHS Trust (SC) 11 January 2024 For decades, close family members have been able to claim for psychiatric illness caused by witnessing the death or serious injury of their loved...
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