Once again people around the world are working together to highlight the appalling situation in Darfur. More than 2 million people have been forced from their homes and 4 million are dependent on aid. The UK is...
The PM met with Poland's President Lech Kaczynski for talks on the future of Europe.
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ALEKSANDR SHEVCHENKO v. UKRAINE - 8371/02 [2007] ECHR 339 (26 April 2007)
The main question that I have to decide is who should pay the costs of these proceedings, which have proved to be largely fruitless but which the claimants say they were justified in bringing and pursuing. There...
This is a professional negligence action in which the claimant Michael Peter Hicks ("Mr Hicks") is suing the defendant solicitors Russell Jones & Walker ("RJW") who acted for him and his former wife Christine Anne...
This case raises the question of how the new scheme specific funding regime under Part 3 Pensions Act 2004 ("Part 3" and "PA 2004") together with regulations made under it impact on the contribution rules of a defined...
The Claimant is the Administratrix of Miss Wakoko Nishida who died on 18th May 2004. Miss Nashida died intestate domiciled in Japan. Letters of Administration were granted to her estate on 12th May 2005 to Sonia...
These proceedings raise, among other issues, questions of interpretation of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I was told during the hearing before me that this is the first time that the provisions of that Act...
This is an appeal by way of case stated against the decision of DJ Wood sitting in the Bishop Auckland Youth Court in which he stayed, as an abuse of process, criminal proceedings brought against the respondent ...
Debenham, R. v [2007] EWCA Crim 891 (23 March 2007)
On the 30 September 2005 in the Crown Court at Lewes before His Honour Judge Rennie and a jury the appellant was convicted of rape (counts 1-3); false imprisonment (count 4); putting people in fear of violence contrary...
These are the reasons why, on 19th April 2007, we dismissed appeals against a ruling by the Recorder of London (His Honour Judge Peter Beaumont QC) made on 4th April 2005 in the course of a preparatory hearing under...
These are prosecution appeals against orders made by Mackay J at Woolwich Crown Court on 21st February 2007, staying proceedings against IK, AB and KA. For convenience, we shall refer to them as the defendants. ...
This is an appeal from that part of the order made by HHJ Faber in the Central London County Court on 8 September 2006 in which she declared that the appellant, Miss Jana Vesely, is, in respect of Flat 1, 8 South...
This is an appeal against the judgment of His Honour Judge Gilmour QC given on 19 December 2005. The judge dismissed a claim by Mrs Irene Gouldsmith ("the appellant") for damages for personal injuries sustained...
This is a dispute between KPMG and Network Rail (as I shall call them) over the effect of a break-clause in a reversionary sub-underlease ("the lease"). The lease was dated 11th July 1985. It followed generally ...