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UK Law Weekly

Takhar v Gracefield Developments Ltd [2019] UKSC 13

Fraud and deception between cousins is the theme of this week’s case. When a forged signature was only exposed after the final judgment the question was whether the victim could return to the courts or if doing so would undermine the certainty that law in

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Belhaj v DPP [2018] UKSC 33

In 2004 Tony Blair struck the now infamous ‘deal in the desert’ with Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The assistance provided by the British Secret Intelligence Service in rendering political dissident Abdelhakim Belhaj back to his homeland in the run-up to that meeting was almost certainly

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Barton v Wright Hassall LLP [2018] UKSC 12

Are you on email? You simply have to be these days but is our legal system and the administration of justice set up to deal with this technology? In this episode we explore that question in the context of a claim form that was served

Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42

In Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42 a panel of nine judges were asked when illegality should bar a claim. The question goes back almost 250 years to the case of Holman v Johnson (1775) where Lord Mansfield said “no court will lend its aid