All Law Reports articles – Page 10
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Mental health
There was an application before the court in respect of DD, a 36-year-old woman with learning difficulties, who was pregnant with her sixth child. The applicants sought for declarations and orders in relation to the care and health of DD during the final stage of her current pregnancy, and in ...
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Law ReportIncome tax
The Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) allowed the appeal by the Revenue and Customs Commissioners against a decision of the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) in which the FTT had decided that a penalty paid by McLaren Racing Ltd for a breach of sporting code of the Federation Internationale de ...
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Law ReportFalse imprisonment
The police had been called to an incident in which the appellant had been implicated. The officer had blocked the appellant in a doorway and told him to calm down otherwise he would be arrested.
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Law ReportFamily
The parents of a child SR born in 2011 opposed the making of an adoption order in favour of the proposed adopters. The Family Division held that there was only one route which would sufficiently safeguard the welfare of SR and that was the route of adoption.
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Law ReportLegal aid
Six claims were heard together in which each claimant challenged the defendant Director of Legal Aid Casework’s decisions refusing to grant legal aid in respect of their immigration proceedings.
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Law Report
Criminal law
The defendants (AB and CD) both faced charges of having committed offences contrary to s 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
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Law ReportPassing off
The claimant made and sold hair oil under the name Moroccanoil and the defendant, Aldi, sold hair oil called Miracle Oil. The claimant issued proceedings against the defendant for passing off.
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Law ReportImmigration
The First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) (the FTT) assessed the claimant asylum seeker as a minor, but the High Court in distinct judicial review proceedings found that he was not a minor.
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Law ReportCopyright
The claimant companies owned the copyright to many films and television programmes. They brought proceedings against the first defendant, H, and companies alleged to have been controlled by him, contending that he had been responsible for large-scale copyright fraud.
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Law ReportPractice
The claimant’s race discrimination claim against the Lawn Tennis Association was dismissed.
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Law ReportCosts
The Bar Standards Board sought judicial review of the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court’s decision awarding the interested party non-practising barrister costs.
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Law ReportInjunction
The claimant solicitor brought an action for misuse of private and confidential information and harassment, and for damages against the defendant sex worker.
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Law ReportHuman rights
A had been convicted of sexual offences and the secretary of state sought to deport him. A challenged the deportation decision.
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Law ReportArbitration
The claimant, Danish Kaneria, was a professional cricketer. In June 2012, the defendant body found him guilty of two charges, including inducing or encouraging, or attempting to induce or encourage, another cricketer to not to perform to his merits by deliberately conceding a minimum number of runs.
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Law ReportMental health
The claimant had been released from hospital on conditional discharge. The defendant secretary of state recalled him to hospital under section 42(3) of the Mental Health Act 1983.
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Law ReportExtradition
The appellant Spanish national was accused of involvement in a conspiracy to launder money which was the proceeds of crime.
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Law ReportInjunction
The claimant musicians sought an interim injunction or specific performance to require the defendant Royal National Theatre to continue to engage them in the production of War Horse.
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Law ReportDefamation
The claimant housemate in the 2012 series of Big Brother, a former Miss India UK, issued libel proceedings concerning two broadcasts of Big Brother.
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Law ReportExtradition
The respondent judicial authority sought the appellant Lithuanian national’s extradition pursuant to a European arrest warrant so that she could stand trial in relation to an allegation of assisting an ‘armed robbery’, said to have occurred in 1996.
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Law ReportCustoms and excise
Ryanair had sought to reclaim air passenger duty, which it alleged it had overpaid in respect of connected flights.