In SCA Packaging Ltd v Boyle [2009] UKHL 37 the House of Lords took an issue of statutory interpretation by what is meant by the word ‘likely’ in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995? In particular Sch 1 para 6(1) on the effects of treatment, i.e. that it is to be ignored if, in its absence, [...]
R (on the application of G) v Governors of X School [2009] IRLR 434 held that in certain circumstances there may be an overarching right to legal representation before an internal disciplinary hearing, regardless of what the organisation’s rules say on the matter. Kulkarni v Milton Keynes Hospital HNS Trust [2009] EWCA Civ 789 is [...]
The Times has compiled a list of the top 100 lawyers in 2009. The top 10 reads as follows: 1) Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, senior law lord 2) Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice 3) Jack Straw, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice 4) Lord Bingham of Cornhill, retired senior law lord 5) [...]
Couwenbergh v Valkova [2008] EWHC 2451 (Ch) is authority for the proposition that the law does not call for a perfectly balanced mind in order for a will to be valid. A will is not invalid where the testator acted capriciously, eccentrically or with bad motives. Where the will is rational on its face and [...]
