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Stare Decisis Radio
Short updates on judgments of the UK Supreme Court.
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29 episodes
Bloomsday Special; The United States v. One Book called Ulysses
In the early 1930s, James Joyce's novel Ulysses was seized by customs on importation to the United States of America. A federal court had to decide wh...
In re B (a child) [2016] UKSC 4
A seven year old girl is brought by her mother to Pakistan. The mother’s former same sex partner, who had an active involvement with her upbringing, a...
R v. Taylor
A man borrows a truck without the consent of the owner, and is then involved in a collision with another driver, who is killed. He is charged with the...
Yousseff v. Foreign Secretary
An alleged supporter of Al Qaida has had his assets frozen by a UN committee, with the support of the UK’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The...
R(C) v. Secretary for Justice
A convicted murderer is placed in a high-security psychiatric hospital for several years. After the expiration of his tariff, he is transferred to a p...
Mirga v. Secretary for Work
A Polish national and an Austrian national are living in the UK. They apply for income support and housing assistance respectively. But their applicat...
R (Roberts) v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2015] UKSC 79
At a time of serious gang-related violence, police are authorised to carry out "suspicionless" stop and search for weapons. A police officer searches...
R (Wang Yam) v. Central Criminal Court [2015] UKSC 76
A man accused of murder tries to adduce sensitive information in his defence. An order is made that the defence case be heard in camera and barring th...
Thevarajah v Riordan [2015] UKSC 78
A defendant to a civil action fails to comply with an order for disclosure, and an order is made by the High Court barring him from defending the clai...
Macklin v. Her Majesty's Advocate [2015] UKSC 77
An accused is convicted in Scotland of possession of a handgun and assault of two police officers, based largely on identification evidence. Subsequen...
Société Coopérative de Production SeaFrance v. Competition and Markets Authority [2015] UKSC 75
The operator of the Channel Tunnel takes over a defunct cross-channel ferry service. The Competition and Markets Authority intervenes, claiming that t...
Trump International Golf Club Scotland Ltd v. The Scottish Ministers [2015] UKSC 74
The Scottish Ministers grant consent for the operation of a wind farm. But it will be visible from a golf club, owned a Donald Trump company, and it c...
R v. Harvey [2015] UKSC 73
A machine hire company is found to have been hiring out stolen property. The owner is convicted of handling stolen goods, with a consequential confisc...
Marks and Spencer plc v. BNP Paribas Securities Services Trust Company (Jersey) Ltd [2015] UKSC 72
A tenant pays rent in advance for a full quarter, then the lease is terminated under a break clause before the quarter has expired. Should the landlor...
Eclairs Group PLC v. JKX Oil & Gas PLC [2015] UKSC 71
Directors of a company attempt to restrict the right of certain minority shareholders to vote at the AGM, fearing a "corporate raid" on the company's...
In re J (a child) [2015] UKSC 70
A young child is brought by his mother from Morocco to the UK. His father seeks his return to Morocco. Do the UK courts have the jurisdiction to order...
Keyu v. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs [2015] UKSC 69
Twenty three men were killed by British soldiers during an insurgency in Malaya in 1948. Were they shot trying to flee, or were they massacred in cold...
R(Ali) v Home Secretary [2015] UKSC 68
Two women with UK citizenship are married to foreign men who cannot speak English. Under a rule imposed in 2010, their husbands cannot move to the UK...
Bank of Cyprus UK Ltd v. Menelaou [2015] UKSC 66
A young woman is given a house by her parents. She discovers two years later that mortgage documentation has been signed over the house in her name, a...
Cavendish Square Holding BV v Talal El Makdessi [2015] UKSC 67
Two people had broken terms of a contract. One had broken a "restraint of trade" clause in the multi-million pound agreement for the sale of a company...
British American Tobacco Denmark A:S v. Kazemier BV [2015] UKSC 65
Two Dutch haulage companies are sued in England for loss of cigarettes under their control. They had no knowledge of a contractual provision that the...
JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov [2015] UKSC 64
A freezing order to the value of US$4 billion is placed over the assets in England and Wales of a Kazakhstani businessman. He then obtains loan facili...
R v. McGeough [2015] UKSC 62
An alleged member of the IRA is charged in 2010 with attempted murder of a part-time soldier in 1981. He seems to have given incriminating evidence wh...
Mandalia v. Home Secretary [2015] UKSC 59 (14 October 2015)
An applicant for a student visa fails to provide all of the financial information sought. Should the UK Border Agency have contacted him to seek the i...
Sharland v. Sharland [2015] UKSC 60 (14 October 2015)
Should a judge have set aside a settlement in family proceedings once it became clear that the husband had misled the court as to the value of his bus...
Shahid v. Scottish Ministers [2015] UKSC 58 (14 October 2015)
The issue in this case concerned whether a life prisoner had been lawfully held in segregation from other prisoners for a period totalling over four y...
Gohil v. Gohil [2015] UKSC 61 (14 October 2015)
This case concerns non-disclosure of assets in family proceedings. The parties had reached a settlement, but the wife subsequently found that the husb...
Secretary of State v. Tolley
A short podcast on the UK Supreme Court case of Secretary of State v. Tolley
R (Tigere) v. Secretary of State for Business
A short discussion of the UK Supreme Court case of R (Tigere) v. Secretary of State for Business.