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Essay Competition 2013 – Runners-Up 21 Aug 2013 | 01:52 pm
The second and third runners-up of our UKSC Blog Essay Competition 2013, run in partnership with the Supreme Court and The Guardian, were Bangor University LLM student Lucas Ford and Lancaster Univers...
Update on O’Brien v The Ministry of Justice 20 Aug 2013 | 07:03 pm
In O’Brien v The Ministry of Justice [2013] UKSC 6 the Supreme Court held that a retired recorder’s lack of entitlement to a judicial pension amounted to nothing more than blanket discrimination by th...
The Week That Was 16 Aug 2013 | 09:14 pm
In another big money Russian divorce case a woman was awarded a settlement totalling over £53 million by the High Court. Mrs Justice Eleanor King found that: “The husband was the wealth creator, the ...
Case Comment: R (AA) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] UKSC 49 14 Aug 2013 | 11:56 am
This case concerned the lawfulness or otherwise of detaining a person believed to be an adult but subsequently assessed to be a child. Under the Immigration Act 1971, Sch 2, para 16, immigration offi...
Supreme Court Art: the Privy Council and being prepared 13 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
The new Supreme Court encourages visitors to the Court. Those who visit come away with a variety of impressions of the court. In this guest post, artist Isobel Williams reflects on her latest visit to...
US Supreme Court urged to be more open. 13 Aug 2013 | 03:32 pm
USA Today has reported that the US Supreme Court is being urged to be more open in its proceedings. Members of Congress and watchdog groups, including the Constitutional Accountability Centre, have u...
Case Comment:Torfaen County Borough Council v Douglas Willis Ltd [2013] UKSC 59 13 Aug 2013 | 02:51 pm
On 9 July 2013 a panel of five justices (Lady Hale and Lords Kerr, Wilson, Reed and Carnwath) heard a test case on prosecutions for selling food after the “use by” date. The case, Torfaen County Boro...
Case Comment: R (New London College Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; R (West London Vocational Training College) v Secretary of Stat... 7 Aug 2013 | 04:10 pm
In a judgment handed down on 17 July 2013, the Supreme Court (leading opinion of Lord Sumption, with which Lords Hope, Clarke, and Reed agreed, and a separate opinion of Lord Carnwath concurring in th...
Exhibition on the Supreme Court building 7 Aug 2013 | 12:09 pm
This August the UKSC is hosting an exhibition charting 100 years of the Middlesex Guildhall, the building which now houses the Supreme Court. The Guildhall was built in 1913 on the south-west corner o...
Case Comment: North & Ors v Dumfries and Galloway Council (Scotland) [2013] UKSC 45 6 Aug 2013 | 01:45 pm
As previously reported on this blog the Supreme Court has handed down judgment in the case of North & Ors v Dumfries and Galloway Council (Scotland) [2013] UKSC 45. In unanimously allowing the appeal,...
