• Carlton Film Distributors Ltd v VDC Ltd

    The applicant company's application for a Norwich Pharmacal order against the respondent in relation to a pending action against a company with which it had a licence agreement was allowed, on the ground that although the respondent was a third party,...

    [2003] All ER (D) 290 (Mar) | Wed, 19/03/2003

  • R (on the application of Q and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

    The test whether an asylum seeker had claimed asylum 'as soon as reasonably practicable' within s55(1) of the was whether, on the premise that the purpose of coming to the United Kingdom was to claim asylum, and having regard both to the practical...

    [2003] All ER (D) 265 (Mar) | Tue, 18/03/2003

  • Dollfus Mieg & Cie v CDW International Ltd LBJ Regents Ltd and another v Dollfus Mieg & Cie

    A cross-claim, made by a party who was not a defendant to the original claim, did not fall within the definition of a 'counterclaim' in art6.3 of Council Regulation (EC) 44-201.

    [2003] All ER (D) 229 (Mar) | Mon, 17/03/2003

  • Kingsnorth v Director of Public Prosecutions Denny v Director of Public Prosecutions

    Where the prosecution failed to adduce evidence, as part of its case, that the accused had been disqualified, the justices could not consult their computerised court records and, having found the existence of a person with the same name, address, and...

    [2003] All ER (D) 235 (Mar) | Mon, 17/03/2003

  • R v Attorney General for England and Wales

    An appeal, by a former member of 22 SAS Regiment and a member of patrol B20 (Bravo Two Zero), against the Court of Appeal of New Zealand's decision that the confidentiality contract entered into by him was valid was dismissed since there had been no...

    [2003] All ER (D) 246 (Mar) | Mon, 17/03/2003

  • Kastor Navigation Co Ltd and another v AGF MAT and others (No 2)

    On the true construction of CPR36.21(a), 'his costs' meant such costs as would ordinarily be awarded to the claimant under CPR44.3.

    [2003] All ER (D) 245 (Mar) | Mon, 17/03/2003

  • Kearns and others v General Council of the Bar

    Verification was not a relevant circumstance in determining whether or not a defamatory communication was protected by qualified privilege in cases where the communicator and the communicatee were in an existing and established relationship,...

    [2003] All ER (D) 250 (Mar) | Mon, 17/03/2003

  • Re Rottman

    It was true that the offence of fraudulent trading contrary to s458 of the could only be committed in respect of a company registered under that Act, but as in England all companies formed had to be registered, in order to examine whether there was a...

    [2003] All ER (D) 205 (Mar) | Fri, 14/03/2003

  • Day v Coltrane

    In proceedings for possession of a property let under an assured tenancy under Ground8 of Sch2 to PtI of the if the tenant delivered to the landlord a cheque for the unpaid rent, which the landlord accepted (or was bound to accept by an earlier...

    [2003] All ER (D) 210 (Mar) | Fri, 14/03/2003

  • Crosbie v Munroe and another

    When Pt8 proceedings had to be commenced in order to obtain a court order for detailed assessment, the 'costs of the proceedings' within the meaning of CPR47.19 related only to the costs leading up to the disposal of the substantive claim.

    [2003] All ER (D) 206 (Mar) | Fri, 14/03/2003