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2. R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Simms

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   The House of Lords allowed the appeal. Lord Steyn gave the leading judgment. Lord Hoffmann agreed with Lord Steyn and said the following. [note 1]Parliamentary sovereignty means that Parliament can, if it chooses, legislate contrary to fundamental principles of human rights.

3. R (Venables and Thompson) v Home Secretary - Wikipedia

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   R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Venables and Thompson [1997] UKHL 25 is a UK constitutional law case, concerning the exercise of independent judgement in judicial review. Facts

4. R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte ...

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   The case was first heard by a Divisional Court, composed of Watkins LJ and Mann J. Mann, with Watkins concurring, rejected the Northumbria Police Authority's argument, saying that under the Royal Prerogative HM Government retained the right to do whatever "was necessary to meet either an actual or an apprehended threat to the peace", something that had not previously been recognised as a ...

5. R v Secretary of State for Employment, ex p Seymour-Smith

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   Ms Nicole Seymour-Smith and Ms Perez had made a claim against the Secretary of State for Employment that the United Kingdom's qualifying period of two years for unfair dismissal constituted indirect discrimination against women under the Treaty of the European Union, article 119 (now TFEU art 157) and the Equal Treatment Directive 76/207/EEC.

6. Section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998 - Wikipedia

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   Lord Hoffmann in a case, R (Simms) v Home Secretary, which bridged the introduction of the Human Rights Act, said: [10] Parliamentary sovereignty means that Parliament can, if it chooses, legislate contrary to fundamental principles of human rights. The Human Rights Act 1998 will not detract from this power.

7. Trousers as women's clothing - Wikipedia

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   In Orthodox Judaism, the wearing of trousers by women, which they consider to be men's clothing, is forbidden biblically under the prohibition of Lo Silbash in the Bible ("A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man", Deuteronomy 22:5). As such, Orthodox Jewish women wear headcoverings, as well as dresses whose sleeves extend beyond ...

8. R (Factortame Ltd) v Secretary of State for Transport

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   The Law Reports: R v Secretary of State for Transport ex parte Factortame Ltd (No. 2) [1991] 1 AC 603; Factortame II. bailii.org: ECJ's 2nd ruling, 25 July 1991; 2nd ECJ decision, official version at eur-lex; Factortame III. ECJ's 3rd ruling, 5 March 1996; Factortame IV. Divisional Court, 31 July 1997; Court of Appeal, 8 April 1998; House of ...

9. Watkins v Home Office and others - Wikipedia

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   Watkins v Home Office and others [2006] UKHL 17, was a United Kingdom legal case heard by the House of Lords where the Home Office made an appeal as to whether the tort of misfeasance in public office was actionable in the absence of proof of pecuniary losses or injury of a mental or physical nature.