This Week in the Supreme Court – w/c 13th March 2023 – UKSCBlog

Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website.

On monday 13th March and Tuesday 14th march the Court will hear the case of R (on the application of Officer W80) v Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct and otherson appeal from [2020] EWCA Civ 1301. The case will consider whether, in the context of police misconduct proceedings, it is open to a reasonable disciplinary panel to make a finding of misconduct if an officer’s honest, but mistaken, belief that his life was threatened was found to be unreasonable. The

British unions lose legal challenge over $23 month pension reform bill

LONDON, March 10 (Reuters) – Two British trade unions on Friday lost a legal challenge to changes to public sector pensions they argue allows the government to unlawfully pass the 19-billion-pound ($23 billion) cost of discriminatory pension reforms onto workers.

The Fire Brigades Union and the British Medical Association argued Britain’s finance ministry was effectively making members of newer pension schemes foot the bill for its own mistake.

But a judge at London’s High Court dismissed the two unions’ case in a written ruling on Friday.

The legal action followed a 2018 court ruling that the exclusion of younger staff

Sara & Hossein Asset Holdings Ltd v Blacks Outdoor Retail Ltd [2023] UKSC 2 – UKSC Blog

Pay now, argue later” is ultimately the decision of the Supreme Court in Sara & Hossein Asset Holdings Ltd v Blacks Outdoor Retail Ltd. Lord Hamblen (with whom Lord Hodge, Lord Kitchin and Lord Sales agreed) gave the majority opinion of the court, with Lord Briggs dissenting. In this post, Sophie Campbell, as Associate in the litigation team at CMS, comments on the decision, handed down on 18 January 2023.

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Sara & Hossein Asset Holdings Ltd (“S&H”) was the landlord and Blacks Outdoor Retail Limited (“B”) was the commercial tenant of retail premises in Liverpool. B

This Week in the Supreme Court – week commencing 6th March 2023 – UKSCBlog

Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website.:

On Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th March 2023 the Court will hear The Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd v United Utilities Water Ltd No 2on appeal from [2022] EWCA Civ 852. The Court will consider whether The Manchester Ship Canal Company Limited can bring a private law claim in nuisance and/or trespass against United Utilities Water Limited in respect of unauthorized discharges of untreated foul water by UU into the canal. The hearing will begin at 11:00am in Courtroom 47 of the Manchester Civil

R (on the application of Palmer) v Northern Derbyshire Magistrates Court and Anor – UKSCBlog

In this post, Ingrida Jakuseva, a paralegal within the Litigation and Arbitration department at CMS, previews the decision awaited from the Supreme Court in R (on the application of Palmer) v Northern Derbyshire Magistrates Court and Anor. The application for permission to appeal will be heard by the Supreme Court on 8 March 2023.

The Supreme Court is to consider whether an administrator appointed under Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986 is a “director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the corporate body” so as to fall within the Trade Union and Labor Relations (Consolidation) Act

How fatigue has caused UConn women’s recent deflate

The Huskies returned both Azzi Fudd (knee) and Geno Auriemma (personal absence) and looked like they had turned the corner after starting the season again boggled down by injuries and absences. UConn shot a season-high 62.3 percent from the field against the Red Storm that January night in Elmont, NY

Yet, when the teams met again Tuesday night in Hartford, it was an opposite scene.

The No. 4-ranked Huskies fell 69-64 to St. John’s thanks to a season-low 35.5 field goal percentage. Fudd was back on the bench dressed in street clothes, coming out indefinitely after reinjuring his knee. St.

Alex Murdaugh’s legal dream team strategizes at a luxe South Carolina estate

WALTERBORO, SC — Alex Murdaugh’s high-powered legal team is renting an extravagant wedding venue on 500 acres in Walterboro, South Carolina, during their client’s sensational double murder trial, Fox News Digital has learned.

The property, called Eden at Gracefield, is the temporary home of Murdaugh’s lead defense attorneys, Dick Harpootlian, Jim Griffin and their entourage.

The team rented all five homes “nestled between lakes and tranquil forests” about eight miles from the Colleton County Courthouse for a little less than the list price of $20,475 a week.

“We did give them a little discount because of the length of the

Pence, Ex-National Security Advisor Subpoenaed by Trump Special Counsel

(Bloomberg) — Former Vice President Mike Pence and former National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien have been subpoenaed in the special counsel investigations of Donald Trump and his allies.

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Pence’s subpoena for documents and testimony came after months of negotiations between his legal team and federal prosecutors working with Special Counsel Jack Smith, according to ABC News.

A spokesman for Pence declined to comment on Thursday evening. The special counsel’s office declined to comment when asked if Pence had been subpoenaed.

Smith is investigating efforts by Trump and others to overturn the 2020 presidential election as well