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16/10/2012 HMRC wins landmark case on taxation of Local Authority services

The First Tier Tribunal has just given judgment in the important and long-running litigation between local authorities and the HMRC over the question of whether the latter was correct in deciding that the treatment of local authorities as ...

5/1/2012 Government victory in tobacco industry challenge to the "Tobacco Display Ban"

R(Imperial Tobacco, BAT, Philip Morris and Gallaher) v Secretary of State for Health Twice adjourned and listed as one of the top 10 cases of 2011 by The Lawyer, the tobacco industry's long running proceedings for ...

17/6/2011 Monckton Win in Cigarette Sales Appeal

The Court of Appeal handed down judgment today upholding legislation which will prohibit the sale of tobacco from vending machines. It rejected appeals brought by a subsidiary of Imperial Tobacco and members of the cigarette vending ...

1/12/2010 Cigarette vending machine ban challenge brought by tobacco company on EU and HRA grounds rejected

R(Sinclair Collis Ltd) v Secretary of State for Health (NACMO intervening) Administrative Court (Sir Anthony May, President of the Queen's Bench Division) The Administrative Court today handed down judgment dismissing ...