Proving Damage in Abuse of Dominance Claims: “Less Loss” vs Lost Profits and the Limits of Presumptions – Commentary on Cabo Concepts Ltd & Anor v MGA Entertainment (UK) Ltd & Anor [2025] EWCA Civ...
Causation, Novus Actus and Third‑Party Campaigners: Clarifying Section 111 Equality Act Liability in Bailey v Stonewall Equality Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 1662 1. Introduction The Court of Appeal’s...
Claim Construction as a Constraint on Obviousness and the Comptroller’s Role on Appeal: Abbott v Dexcom [2025] EWCA Civ 1633 1. Introduction This commentary examines the Court of Appeal decision in...
Fairness Through Statutory Appeal: The Merits-Based Nature of Deprivation of Citizenship Appeals in Secretary of State for the Home Department v Kolicaj [2025] UKSC 49 1. Introduction In Secretary of...
Evans v Barclays Bank Plc & Ors [2025] UKSC 48: Merits, Practicability and Third‑Party EU Decisions in Competition Collective Proceedings 1. Introduction This Supreme Court decision is now a leading...
R v Andrews: Appellate Restraint on Unduly Lenient Sentence References Where a Minimising Basis of Plea Was Accepted 1. Introduction Andrews, R. v ([2025] EWCA Crim 1735) is a reference by the...
Reasonable Steps Beyond the Etridge Certificate in Spousal Suretyship: Fact-Specific Compliance and the Need for Transaction-by-Transaction Warnings 1. Introduction Excel-A-Rate Business Services Ltd...
Over-Optimistic Sentencing Advice Does Not Normally Vitiate a Guilty Plea: Refusal of Late Conviction Appeal in R v McEvoy [2025] EWCA Crim 1747 1. Introduction R v McEvoy concerned a renewed...
Yellow Card Proportionality: Live Ammunition Unjustified Against a Bottle-Throwing Youth in Public Disorder (Inquest into Desmond Healey) 1. Introduction This decision is a published summary of the...
Refusal to Extend Time to Appeal under Regulation 4(4) Is Not a “s.5 Decision”: No Certificate to Appeal Required 1) Introduction GB v The International Protection Appeals Tribunal and Ors ([2025]...
Pre-Leave Amendments Cannot Evade Section 50 Time Limits: No “Holding” Statement of Grounds in Planning Judicial Review 1. Introduction Moore and Anor v An Coimisiún Pleanála (Approved) [2025] IEHC...
Section 49(7) “Reasons” and the “Something More” Threshold: Training/Community Contribution Arguments May Be Lawfully Rejected Where the Decision Engages and Balances the Common Good 1) Introduction...
Acquittal on Aggravated Burglary Does Not Undermine Conviction for Conspiracy to Rob Where the Offences Have Distinct Mental Elements 1. Introduction Thomas, R. v ([2025] EWCA Crim 1755, 18 December...
Spousal Surety Guarantees in Northern Ireland: Strict “Etridge” Compliance for Enforceability and Priority Case: Bunting & Excel - A Rate Business Services Ltd v Blaney & Anor Neutral citation:...
Totality Must Still Be Applied to Consecutive Sentences for In‑Custody Drug Trafficking Despite Minimal Late Plea Credit 1) Introduction R v Finnegan ([2025] EWCA Crim 1817) concerns sentencing for...
Noori: Deterrent Uplift in False-ID Sentencing Amid Asylum-System Pressures; Full Guilty-Plea Credit Despite Procedural Defects; Deportation Recommendations to Be Used Sparingly 1. Introduction R. v...
Brown, R. v — Pre-offence Messaging as “Facts of the Offence” (CJA 2003, s.98) and “Significant Contribution” Causation in Mixed Trauma/Drug Deaths Citation: [2025] EWCA Crim 1779 | Court: England...
Procedural unfairness in Industrial Tribunal appeals: appellate determination de novo and “panoramic” assessment of overall fairness Case: DD v TT Neutral citation: [2025] NICA 75 (Court of Appeal in...
Ministerial Primacy and De Novo Wiley Balancing in Inquests: Commentary on Secretary of State for Northern Ireland for Judicial Review [2025] UKSC 47 1. Introduction This decision of the United...
Revenue and Customs v Hotel La Tour Ltd: Input VAT on Exempt Fundraising Share Sales and the Limits of VAT Grouping Case: Revenue and Customs v Hotel La Tour Ltd [2025] UKSC 46 Court: United Kingdom...