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The case summaries below are not official or authoritative. Unless otherwise noted, cases were heard by a panel of 5 judges. Cases involving Scots law are highlighted in orange. Cases involving Northern Irish law are highlighted in green. List of judgments of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom delivered in 2009
legislation.gov.uk, formerly known as the UK Statute Law Database, is the official Web-accessible database of the statute law of the United Kingdom, hosted by The National Archives. Established in the early 2000s, [ 1 ] it contains all primary legislation in force since 1267 and all secondary legislation since 1823; it does not include ...
[2010] 2 AC 373, [2010] 2 WLR 47, [2010] 2 All ER 359: Case history; Prior history [2009] EWCA Crim 964 (Affirmed in full) Holding; Appeals dismissed, When hearsay evidence was adduced in a way which complied with the statutory regimes, there was no breach of Article 6, notwithstanding that the evidence was the "sole or decisive" basis of a ...
Land law, Statutory Incompatibility: The specific public interest contained in the statutory purpose for which the land was actually held outweighed the public interest in registering the land as a town or village green under the Commons Act 2006. [58] Patel v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Secretary of State for the Home ...
UK Tax Law, Value Added Tax: Judgment following a referral to the Court of Justice of the European Union [d] (CJEU) in a previous supreme court case (see 2020 UKSC 15). The CJEU had confirmed that a trader could not recover VAT on supplies made to it where the original supplier and HMRC had mistakenly treated the original supplies as exempt ...
One such example is in the formal restructuring of corporations. Recent examples include the HSBC Investment Banking Act 2002, which facilitated the transfer of one HSBC subsidiary's businesses to two other subsidiaries, [9] and the HBOS Group Reorganisation Act 2006, which facilitated conversion of the Bank of Scotland into a public limited ...
R (Factortame Ltd) v Secretary of State for Transport [1] was a judicial review case taken against the United Kingdom government by a company of Spanish fishermen who claimed that the United Kingdom had breached European Union law (then Community Law) by requiring ships to have a majority of British owners if they were to be registered in the UK.
[4] [5] Common law is made by sitting judges who apply both statutory law and established principles which are derived from the reasoning from earlier decisions. Equity is the other historic source of judge-made law. Common law can be amended or repealed by Parliament. [6] [b] Not being a civil law system, it has no comprehensive codification.