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  • Jessy Saint Prix v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions before Lord Neuberger, PresidentLady HaleLord ManceLord KerrLord Reed JUDGMENT GIVEN ON 31 October 2012 Heard on 15 October 2012 AppellantRichard Drabble QC(Instructed by Child Poverty Action Group)  RespondentJason CoppelDenis Edwards(Instructed by DWP/DH Legal Services) Intervener (The Aire Centre)Jemima Stratford QCCharles Banner(Instructed by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP)…

  • Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and another v Yunus Rahmatullah before Lord PhillipsLady HaleLord KerrLord DysonLord WilsonLord ReedLord Carnwath JUDGMENT GIVEN ON 31 October 2012 Heard on 2 and 3 July 2012 AppellantJames Eadie QCBen WatsonDan Sarooshi(Instructed by Treasury Solicitor) RespondentNathalie Lieven QCBen JaffeyTristan Jones(Instructed by Leigh Day & Co) Intervener (JUSTICE)Thomas…

  • Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and another v Yunus Rahmatullah before Lord PhillipsLady HaleLord KerrLord DysonLord WilsonLord ReedLord Carnwath JUDGMENT GIVEN ON 31 October 2012 Heard on 2 and 3 July 2012 AppellantJames Eadie QCBen WatsonDan Sarooshi(Instructed by Treasury Solicitor) RespondentNathalie Lieven QCBen JaffeyTristan Jones(Instructed by Leigh Day & Co) Intervener (JUSTICE)Thomas…

  • Birmingham City Council v Abdulla and others before Lady HaleLord WilsonLord SumptionLord ReedLord Carnwath JUDGMENT GIVEN ON 24 October 2012 Heard on 11 July 2012 AppellantPaul Epstein QCLouise Chudleigh Nathaniel Caiden(Instructed by Birmingham City Council Legal and Democratic Services) RespondentAndrew Short QCNaomi Ling(Instructed by Leigh Day & Co) LORD WILSON (with whom Lady Hale and Lord Reed…

  • New Cap Reinsurance Corporation (In Liquidation) and another v A E Grant and others as Members of Lloyd’s Syndicate 991 for the 1997 Year of Account and another before Lord WalkerLord ManceLord ClarkeLord SumptionLord Collins JUDGMENT GIVEN ON 24 October 2012 Heard on 21, 22, 23 and 24 May 2012 AppellantMarcus Staff(Instructed by Brown Rudnick LLP)…

  • Rubin and another v Eurofinance SA and others before Lord WalkerLord ManceLord ClarkeLord SumptionLord Collins JUDGMENT GIVEN ON 24 October 2012 Heard on 21, 22, 23 and 24 May 2012 AppellantMarcus Staff(Instructed by Brown Rudnick LLP) RespondentRobin Dicker QCTom Smith(Instructed by Chadbourne & Parke LLP) AppellantRobin Knowles QCBlair Leahy(Instructed by Edwards Wildman Palmer UK LLP) RespondentGabriel Moss…

  • BCL Old Co Limited and others v BASF plc and others before Lord PhillipsLord WalkerLord ManceLord ClarkeLord Wilson JUDGMENT GIVEN ON 24 October 2012 Heard on 9 and 10 July 2012 AppellantChristopher Vajda QCLaura Elizabeth John(Instructed by Taylor Vinters)  RespondentMark Brealey QCSarah Ford(Instructed by Mayer Brown International LLP) LORD MANCE (with whom Lord Phillips, Lord Walker, Lord…

  • Walton v The Scottish Ministers (Scotland) before Lord Hope, Deputy PresidentLord KerrLord DysonLord ReedLord Carnwath JUDGMENT GIVEN ON 17 October 2012 Heard on 9 and 10 July 2012 AppellantAidan O’Neill QCChris Pirie(Instructed by Patrick Campbell and Company Solicitors) RespondentJames Mure QCLorna Drummond QC(Instructed by Scottish Government Legal Directorate Litigation Division) LORD REED The Roads (Scotland) Act 1984…

  • R v Varma before Lord PhillipsLord ManceLord ClarkeLord DysonLord Reed JUDGMENT GIVEN ON 10 October 2012 Heard on 27 June 2012 AppellantDavid Perry QCWilliam Hays(Instructed by Crown Prosecution Service) RespondentHugh Southey QCRupert Hallowes(Instructed by Frame Smith Solicitors) LORD CLARKE (with whom Lord Dyson and Lord Reed agree) Introduction £1,500. Each of these figures had been agreed between…

  • Howard de Walden Estates Limited  v Lexgorge Limited before Lord PhillipsLord WalkerLord ManceLord ClarkeLord WilsonLord SumptionLord Carnwath JUDGMENT GIVEN ON 10 October 2012 Heard on 16, 17 and 18 July 2012 AppellantEdwin Johnson QCOliver Phillips(Instructed by Pemberton Greenish LLP) RespondentStephen Jourdan QCAnthony Radevsky(Instructed by Bircham Dyson Bell) AppellantJonathan Gaunt QCKatharine Holland QC(Instructed by Speechly Bircham LLP)…