The dead period between Christmas and New Year is normally a time for relaxing, watching rubbish TV and regretting how much food you are still eating. Sadly for lawyers, legal commentators and anyone with an interest in politics that has not exactly been possible this
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A dispute over a drug company’s alleged anti-competitive practices leads to a legal case about the influence of decisions from the European Courts in the UK. Music from bensound.com
marcuscleaver · R (Highbury Poultry Farm Produce Ltd) v CPS [2020] UKSC 39 Animal welfare concerns also enter into the slaughterhouse to ensure that animals are killed in as humane a way as possible without any unnecessary cruelty. When a slaughterhouse was charged with two
Most consumers don’t think twice about what happens behind the scenes when they use their card to pay for something in a supermarket but for the stores themselves this is a point of contention. In this case they take on the card companies for alleged
When it became apparent that VAT should be charged on individually negotiated mail services Zipvit Ltd tried to claim a deduction even though VAT was not signalled on the invoice. HMRC opposed this and the question of EU law was brought before the Supreme Court.
These longstanding proceedings look at the EU’s rules on state aid and how they interact with international arbitration. Music from bensound.com
The relationship between the Channel Islands and the UK is fairly settled but in this case a new element is added into the equation: the European Union. The background to the dispute is relief from inheritance tax but in these proceedings the Supreme Court also
In one of the most important, constitutional judgments of modern times, the Supreme Court was charged with deciding whether the prorogation of Parliament announced on 28th August 2019 was lawful or not. With a Brexit deadline of 31st October looming the judgment was also of
On the face of it the new Withdrawal Bill published by the government this evening is a rather functional piece of legislation that gives effect to the deal negotiated by Boris Johnson. However you don’t have to dig very far beneath the surface to see