Abstract
Essential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. Essential Cases provides you with succinct summaries of some of the most influential, landmark cases in public law. Each summary begins with a review of the main case facts and decision. The summary is then concluded with expert commentary on the case from the author, Thomas Webb, including the wider questions raised by the decision for you to consider.
Keywords:
administrative law, constitution, devolution, executive, human rights and civil liberties, judiciary, Parliament, parliamentary sovereignty, rule of law, separation of powersSubjects:
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Contents
- Front Matter
- A v BBC (Scotland) [2014] UKSC 25, Supreme Court
- A (and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2004] UKHL 56, House of Lords
- Anisminic Ltd v Foreign Compensation Commission [1969] 2 AC 147, House of Lords
- Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223, Court of Appeal
- Attorney General for New South Wales v Trethowan [1932] AC 526, Privy Council
- Attorney General v Jonathan Cape Ltd [1976] QB 752, High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
- AXA General Insurance Ltd v Lord Advocate [2011] UKSC 46, Supreme Court
- British Railways Board v Pickin [1974] AC 765, House of Lords
- Burmah Oil Company v Lord Advocate [1965] AC 75, House of Lords
- Campbell v Mirror Group News Limited [2004] UKHL 22, House of Lords
- Case of Proclamations [1610] 77 ER 1352, 12 Co Rep 74, King’s Bench
- Congreve v Home Office [1976] QB 629, Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
- Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service [1985] AC 374, House of Lords (also known as the GCHQ case)
- Dimes v Proprietors of the Grand Junction Canal (1852) III House of Lords Cases (Clark’s) 759, 10 ER 301, House of Lords
- Donoghue v Poplar Housing and Regeneration Community Association Limited and another [2001] EWCA Civ 595, Court of Appeal
- Ellen Street Estates Ltd v Minister of Health [1934] 1 KB 590, Court of Appeal
- Entick v Carrington [1765] 95 ER 807, King’s Bench
- Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza [2004] UKHL 30, House of Lords
- Handyside v United Kingdom (1979–80) 1 EHRR 737, European Court of Human Rights
- Hirst v United Kingdom [2005] ECHR 681, European Court of Human Rights (Application 74025/01) (Grand Chamber)
- Imperial Tobacco Ltd v The Lord Advocate (Scotland) [2012] UKSC 61, Supreme Court
- Ireland v United Kingdom (1979-80) 2 EHRR 25, European Court of Human Rights
- Jackson v HM Attorney General [2005] UKHL 56, House of Lords
- M v Home Office [1994] 1 AC 377, House of Lords (also known as Re M)
- Osborn v Parole Board [2013] UKSC 61, Supreme Court
- Padfield v Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food [1968] AC 997, House of Lords
- Parochial Church Council of the Parish of Aston Cantlow, Wilmcote with Billesley v Wallbank [2003] UKHL 37, House of Lords
- Pham v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] UKSC 19, Supreme Court
- Porter v Magill [2001] UKHL 67, House of Lords
- Privacy International and others v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and others [2021] EWCA Civ 330, Court of Appeal (also known as the Third Direction case)
- R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No. 2) [2000] 1 AC 119, House of Lords
- R v Chaytor and others [2010] UKSC 52, Supreme Court
- R v Disciplinary Committee of the Jockey Club, ex parte Aga Khan [1993] 1 WLR 909, Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
- R v Inland Revenue Commissioners, ex parte National Federation of the Self Employed and Small Businesses Ltd [1982] AC 617, House of Lords (also known as Fleet Street Casuals)
- R v Inspectorate of Pollution, ex parte Greenpeace Ltd (No. 2) [1994] 2 CMLR 548, High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
- R v Lord Chancellor, ex parte Witham [1998] QB 575, Queen’s Bench Divisional Court
- R v Panel on Take-overs and Mergers, ex parte Datafin plc [1987] QB 815, Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
- R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Brind [1991] UKHL 4, House of Lords
- R v Secretary for the Home Department, ex parte Pierson [1998] AC 539, House of Lords
- R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Simms [1999] UKHL 33, in the House of Lords
- R v Secretary of State for the Environment, ex parte Rose Theatre Trust Co. [1990] 1 QB 504, High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
- R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Fire Brigades Union [1995] 2 AC 513, House of Lords
- R v Secretary of State for Transport, ex parte Factortame Ltd (No. 2) [1991] 1 AC 603, House of Lords
- R (on the application of Abbasi) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Secretary of State for the Home Department [2002] EWCA Civ 1598, Court of Appeal
- R (on the application of Al-Skeini) v Secretary of State for Defence [2007] UKHL 26, House of Lords
- R (on the application of Begum (By her litigation friend, Rahman)) v Headteacher, Governors of Denbigh High School [2006] UKHL 15, House of Lords
- R (on the application of Cart) v The Upper Tribunal [2011] UKSC 28, Supreme Court
- R (on the application of Daly) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2001] UKHL 26, House of Lords
- R (on the application of Evans) and another v Attorney General [2015] UKSC 21, Supreme Court
- R (on the application of FDA) v Prime Minister [2021] EWHC 3279 (Admin), Queen’s Bench Divisional Court
- R (on the application of H) v London North and East Region Mental Health Review Tribunal [2001] EWCA Civ 415, Court of Appeal
- R (on the application of HS2 Action Alliance Ltd) v Secretary of State for Transport [2014] UKSC 3, Supreme Court (also known as R (on the application of Buckinghamshire CC))
- R (on the application of Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2017] UKSC 5, Supreme Court
- R (on the application of Miller and Cherry) v Prime Minister and Advocate General for Scotland [2019] UKSC 41, Supreme Court
- R (on the application of Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice [2014] UKSC 38, Supreme Court
- R (on the application of Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2019] UKSC 22, Supreme Court
- R (on the application of Public Law Project) v Secretary of State for Justice [2016] UKSC 39, Supreme Court
- R (on the application of Ullah) v Special Adjudicator [2004] UKHL 26, House of Lords
- R (on the application of UNISON) v Lord Chancellor [2017] UKSC 51, Supreme Court
- Re Dr Bonham’s Case (1608) 8 Coke Reports 107a, 77 ER 638, Court of King’s Bench; Dr Bonham’s Case (1609) 8 Coke Reports 113b, 77 ER 646, Court of King’s Bench
- Reference by the Attorney General and the Advocate General for Scotland—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill and European Charter of Local Self-Government (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill [2021] UKSC 42, Supreme Court (also known as the Incorporation References Case)
- Reference by the Lord Advocate of devolution issues under paragraph 34 of Schedule 6 to the Scotland Act 1998 [2022] UKSC 31, Supreme Court (also known as Scottish Independence Referendum Bill)
- Re Finucane’s Application for Judicial Review [2019] UKSC 7, Supreme Court
- Re Resolution to Amend the Constitution of Canada [1981] 1 SCR 753 Supreme Court of Canada (also known as the Patriation Reference)
- Ridge v Baldwin [1964] AC 40, House of Lords
- Smith and Grady v United Kingdom [1999] ECHR 72, European Court of Human Rights
- The UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill—A Reference by the Attorney General and the Advocate General for Scotland [2018] UKSC 64, Supreme Court (also known as Continuity Bill Reference)
- Thoburn v Sunderland City Council [2002] EWHC 195 (Admin), Divisional Court
- Tyrer v United Kingdom (1979-80) 2 EHRR 1, European Court of Human Rights
- YL v Birmingham City Council [2007] UKHL 27, House of Lords