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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
Entick v Carrington [1765] EWHC KB J98 is a leading case in English law and UK constitutional law establishing the civil liberties of individuals and limiting the scope of executive power. [1] The case has also been influential in other common law jurisdictions and was an important motivation for the Fourth Amendment to the United States ...
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 ...
The hearing was suspended temporarily when the Attorney General for Northern Ireland requested the case be referred to the Supreme Court due to a conflict between European human rights law and Northern Irish equality law. [9] The Court of Appeal denied the request. [2] The Court upheld the original verdict on the grounds of direct ...
The Supreme Court held that the UK has constitutional instruments that the courts would not interpret to be abrogated without close scrutiny. [2] Lord Reed observed that the scrutiny of the legislative process required by the EU directive may amount to an impingement “upon long-established constitutional principles governing the relationship between Parliament and the courts” [3] including the
In the early centuries of English common law, the justices and judges were responsible for adapting the system of writs to meet everyday needs, applying a mixture of precedent and common sense to build up a body of internally consistent law. An example is the Law Merchant derived from the "Pie-Powder" Courts, named from a corruption of the ...
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 ...
5), also known as the Statute of 13 Elizabeth, was an Act of Parliament in England, which laid the foundations for fraudulent transactions to be unwound when a person had gone insolvent or bankrupt. In the United Kingdom , the provisions contained in the 1571 Act were replaced by Part IX of the Law of Property Act 1925 , which has since been ...