Today’s judgment by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg presents a significant win for the Applicants behind the three joined cases of Big Brother Watch v. the United Kingdom, Bureau of Investigative Journalism v. the United Kingdom and Ten Human Rights NGOs v. the United Kingdom. The landmark judgment marks the court’s […]
The CJEU is today hearing a dispute between Google and the French data protection agency, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), concerning global enforcement of the CJEU’s landmark 2014 “right to be forgotten” ruling (Google Spain v Gonzalez et al), which requires Google and other search providers to suppress certain search results […]
The CJEU has concluded that the restrictions on the compensation payable by the UK Pension Protection Fund (PPF) to employees of insolvent companies are contrary to Directive 2008/94/EC (the Insolvency Directive). The Court of Appeal referred the case to the CJEU in July 2016. The CJEU judgment confirms that, when their employer becomes insolvent, “every […]
In a judgment handed down today, the CAT upheld the CMA’s August 2017 decision finding that the internet sales ban operated by Ping Europe Limited infringed the prohibition in Chapter I of the Competition Act 1998 and Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The judgment represents the first time […]
In a widely publicised ruling, the Supreme Court has held that the scheme in Northern Ireland governing payment of Widowed Parents’ Allowance unlawfully discriminates against unmarried parents. The judgment of the majority focused closely on the implications for children affected by this differential treatment. Steve Broach acted for the National Children’s Bureau in its intervention […]
The High Court has held that decisions made by Northamptonshire County Council (‘Northamptonshire’) on the future of library services across the County (‘Libraries’) which would have resulted in the closure of 60% of its Libraries, were unlawful. Mrs Justice Yip DBE held that Northamptonshire had made its decision to close the libraries without balancing its […]
The Upper Tribunal has held that regulations under the Equality Act 2010 excluding children who have a ‘tendency to physical abuse’ from the protection of the Act give rise to unlawful discrimination under Article 14 ECHR insofar as they apply to children with impairments which give rise to an enhanced risk of physical aggression. Judge […]
The High Court has held that cuts made by Bristol City Council (‘Bristol’) to the funding available for services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (‘SEND’) were unlawful. His Honour Judge Cotter QC (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) held that Bristol were obliged both under statute and common […]
In a judgment handed down on 13 July 2018, the High Court (Supperstone J) decided that a 10 year residence requirement imposed by the London Borough of Hillingdon in its allocation policy for the provision of social housing was indirectly discriminatory, on the grounds of race, and therefore unlawful. The case was brought by three […]
By decision of 2 April 2014,1 the Commission imposed fines of over €300 million on a number of producers of (extra) high voltage underground and/or submarine power cables for participating in an anticompetitive cartel. Such cables are typically used to transmit and distribute electricity and to interconnect power grids in different countries. According to the […]
