HUMAN RIGHTS LAW CASE NOTES

Merchant International Company Ltd v Natsionalna Aktsionerna Kompaniia Naftogaz
25 October 2012
Member(s) of Chambers involved in this case: Robert Palmer, Drew Holiner

  The Supreme Court has refused permission to appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal to dismiss the appeal by Naftogaz, the Ukrainian state owned energy company against a decision of the Commercial Court which will allow ...

Veolia ES Nottinghamshire Ltd v Nottinghamshire County Council [2009] EWHC 2382 (Admin) ~ Information rights: Commercial Confidentiality and Local Government Accountability in Conflict?
20 November 2009
Author(s): Ligia Osepciu
Member(s) of Chambers involved in this case: Ian Rogers

The High Court's recent decision in Veolia ES Nottinghamshire Ltd v Nottinghamshire County Council [2009] EWHC 2382 (Admin) has potentially far reaching implications for the protection of confidential ...

Gallagher (Valuation Officer) v Church of Latter-Day Saints (2008) UKHL 56
14 October 2008
Author(s): Jorren Knibbe
Member(s) of Chambers involved in this case: Tim Ward QC

In Gallagher the House of Lords considered whether certain buildings within a complex belonging to the Mormon church in Lancashire were exempt from liability to non-domestic rates under paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 of the ...

Does the Freedom of Information Act Confer a Right to See Government Legal Advice?
15 May 2006
Author(s): Jorren Knibbe
Member(s) of Chambers involved in this case: George Peretz

In its decision of 4 April 2006 in Bellamy v Information Commissioner, which has just been published on its website, the Information Tribunal has addressed issues arising under ...

Freedom of Expression and Assembly vs Free Movement of Goods ~ Case analysis first published in the European Human Rights Law Review, Issue 1 2004
1 February 2004
Author(s): Gerry Facenna

This analysis considers the judgment of the European Court of Justice ('ECJ') in Eugen Schmidberger Internationale Transporte Planzüge v. Austria, a reference for a preliminary ruling from the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht), ...

International Transport Roth Gmbh And Others V. The Home Office
10 December 2001
Member(s) of Chambers involved in this case: Lord Lyell of Markyate QC

The judgment in International Transport Roth -v- Home Office, delivered on Wednesday 5th December 2001, is a landmark decision, which shows that the fundamental freedoms embodied in the Treaties of European Union and the ...