• Runa Begum v Tower Hamlets London Borough Council

    Although a local housing authority officer who carried out a review under s193 of the of the authority's decision to offer accommodation to a homeless person which that person refused did not constitute an independent and impartial tribunal for the...

    [2003] All ER (D) 191 (Feb) | Thu, 13/02/2003

  • Cream Holdings Limited and others v Banerjee and another

    On a true construction of s12(3) of the which provides: 'No [relief affecting the exercise of the Convention right to freedom of expression] is to be granted so as to restrain publication before trial unless the court is satisfied that the applicant...

    [2003] All ER (D) 166 (Feb) | Thu, 13/02/2003

  • R (on the application of Dube) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

    On a plain reading of para9(2) of SchIV to the once an adjudicator had promulgated a decision agreeing with the opinion expressed in the certificate, the Secretary of State had no power to withdraw that certificate, and an appellant had no right of...

    [2003] All ER (D) 163 (Feb) | Thu, 13/02/2003

  • Matthews v Ministry of Defence

    of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 was not incompatible with art 6(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The section created a substantive limitation on the right to sue the Crown in tort under s2 of the Act which, had s10 not been enacted...

    [2003] All ER (D) 173 (Feb) | Thu, 13/02/2003

  • R (on the application of KB and others) v Mental Health Review Tribunal and another

    The court gave guidance as to the award of damages applicable under the European Convention on Human Rights, in circumstances where it had earlier found that there had been violations of art5 of the Convention.

    [2003] All ER (D) 168 (Feb) | Thu, 13/02/2003

  • Re Claims Direct Test Cases

    In various test cases, where successful claimants had attempted to recover as the premium for ATE insurance the whole of the 'premium' for their litigation protection insurance policy from defendants, only those sums directly relating to insurance...

    [2003] All ER (D) 160 (Feb) | Wed, 12/02/2003

  • Parker v CS Structured Credit Fund Ltd and another

    CPR25.1(1)(g) did not create a free-standing jurisdiction towards disclosure of information which might in a remote sense be relevant to a possible application for a freezing injunction.

    [2003] All ER (D) 159 (Feb) | Wed, 12/02/2003

  • KR and others v Bryn Alyn Community (Holdings) Ltd (in liquidation) and another

    The Court of Appeal gave guidance on the application of ss11, 14 and 33 of the to claims involving sexual mistreatment and physical abuse crossing the line of reasonable discipline of young children in care homes and the like.

    [2003] All ER (D) 162 (Feb) | Wed, 12/02/2003

  • East West Corporation v Dampskibsselskabet AF, 1912, Aktieselskab (a body corporate) and another Utaniko Ltd v P&O Nedlloyd BV

    The contemplated that rights of suit might be transferred to persons who were vis--vis the shippers acting as agents, and, after a statutory transfer of contractual rights by a principal to its agent, the principal could not still sue in contract in...

    [2003] All ER (D) 146 (Feb) | Wed, 12/02/2003

  • Douglas and others v Hello! Ltd and others

    There was a good arguable case that there was the necessary jurisdictional link with England for the sixth defendant, an American photographer, to be joined in proceedings claiming damages for breach of confidence or privacy in respect of the...

    [2003] All ER (D) 161 (Feb) | Wed, 12/02/2003