• Seagrain LLC v Glencore Grain BV

    Contract Damages for breach. The Commercial Court considered an appeal arising out of the repudiation of a contract to sell wheat between the claimant sellers and the defendant buyers. The claimant had contended that measures taken by Ukranian customs...

    [2013] All ER (D) 114 (May) | Fri, 10/05/2013

  • Swarovski-Optik KG v Leica Camera AG and another company

    Patent Infringement. The claimant owned the patent for a sighting telescope or zoom rifle scope. It contended that the defendant companies (together, Leica) had infringed its patent through their own sighting device. Leica contended that the patent...

    [2013] All ER (D) 154 (May) | Fri, 10/05/2013

  • Pike v Revenue and Customs Commissioners

    Income tax Loss relief. The Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) (the tribunal) dismissed the taxpayer's appeal against a decision of the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) (the FTT) in which the FTT had held that under the terms of the loan stock...

    [2013] All ER (D) 186 (May) | Fri, 10/05/2013

  • DR v GR and others

    Divorce Property. The Family Division considered an application for variation of a post-nuptial settlement under s24(1)(c) of the and held that, if under an arrangement 'some form of continuing provision for both or either of the parties to a...

    [2013] All ER (D) 230 (May) | Fri, 10/05/2013

  • Harbinger Capital Partners v Caldwell and another

    Bank Nationalisation. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, upheld a decision that a valuer, appointed as the independent valuer of Northern Rock for the purposes of valuing its shares in order to compensate shareholders following nationalisation, had...

    [2013] All ER (D) 98 (May) | Thu, 9/05/2013

  • SL v Westminster City Council

    Housing Persons in need of care and attention. The claimant suffered from depression and post traumatic stress disorder. The defendant local authority determined that the claimant was not in need of care and attention for the purpose of s21(1)(a) of...

    [2013] All ER (D) 94 (May) | Thu, 9/05/2013

  • Futter and another v Revenue and Customs Commissioners; Pitt and another v Revenue and Customs Commissioners

    Settlement Advancement. In two appeals concerning private trusts, the Supreme Court explained the rule in Hastings-Bass as it applied to fiduciaries and breaches of their duty. The Court also explained the rule for setting aside a voluntary...

    [2013] All ER (D) 106 (May) | Thu, 9/05/2013

  • BNY Corporate Trustee Services Ltd and others v Neuberger Berman Europe Ltd (on behalf of Sealink Funding Ltd) and others

    Company Insolvency. The Supreme Court considered the interpretation of subsections 123(1) and (2) of the . A company, Eurosail, had experienced financial difficulties in the wake of the Lehman Brothers collapse, and the question arose as to whether it...

    [2013] All ER (D) 107 (May) | Thu, 9/05/2013

  • R (on the application of Barclay and another) v Secretary of State for Justice and others

    Constitutional law Separation of powers. The claimants sought judicial review of the defendants' decision to approve the Reform (Sark) (Amendment) (No 2) Law 2010 (the law). They contended that the law was inconsistent with art 6 of the European...

    [2013] All ER (D) 123 (May) | Thu, 9/05/2013

  • Ahmadi v Secretary of State for the Home Department

    Immigration Leave to remain. The claimant applied to vary his leave to remain in the United Kingdom. The defendant Secretary of State issued a combined decision refusing that application and ordering the claimant's removal from the UK. The claimant...

    [2013] All ER (D) 147 (May) | Thu, 9/05/2013