Part 1

• Case No.:

  1. Asfaw v Regina [HL]

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     • Matter: "If a defendant is charged with an offence not specified in section 31(3) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, to what extent is he entitled to rely on the protections afforded by article 31 of the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees?"

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  3. Jugnauth v Ringadoo [PC]

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     • Matter: "Perhaps the strongest argument in favour of the appellant's contention, that proof beyond reasonable doubt is nevertheless the appropriate standard, is that the court should be slow to set aside the result of a democratic election and should do so only where the bribery etc is established to this high standard"

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  5. B.M.P. Global Distribution Inc v Bank of Nova Scotia [SCC]

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     • Matter: "whether a bank must pay damages to customers for debits made from their accounts when reversing credits that had been entered in relation to a forged cheque"

  6. Canada v Grant [SCC]

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     • Matter: "The question on this appeal is whether that evidence was obtained in breach of Mr. Grant’s Charter rights, and if so, whether the evidence should have been excluded under s. 24(2) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms"

  7. President of South Africa v Quagliani [CCZA]

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     • Matter: "Extradition law thus straddles the divide between state sovereignty and comity between states and functions at the intersection of domestic law and international law"

  8. S.P. Lam v Commissioner of Police [CFA]

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     • Matter: "There can be circumstances in which a hearing would be unfair if legal representation ... is not permitted. The natural expectation is that if and when such unfairness occurs, the courts would provide a remedy ..."

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  10. Crawford v Metropolitan Government of Nashville [USSC]

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      • Matter: "Civil Rights Act of 1964 ..., forbids retaliation by employers against employees who report workplace race or gender discrimination ... whether this protection extends to an employee who speaks out about discrimination not on her own initiative, but in answering questions during an employer’s internal investigation"

  11. Arizona v Johnson [USSC]

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      • Matter: "This case concerns the authority of police officers to “stop and frisk” a passenger in a motor vehicle temporarily seized upon police detection of a traffic infraction"

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  13. B v Crown Health Financing Agency [NZSC]

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      • Matter: "the six appellants spent a period or periods as a patient admitted to Porirua Psychiatric Hospital. On some occasions the appellants were admitted with their agreement, under procedures that did not involve the formalities required for committed patients"

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Part 2

• Case No.:

  1. Othon Ghalanos Ltd v Scottish & Newcastle International Ltd [HL]

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     • Matter: "I would reject the primary argument of Ghalanos that Limassol was the contractually agreed place of delivery because that port was entered in box (iv), “Place of delivery", on the invoices"

  2. Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs v Total Network SL [HL]

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     • Matter: "whether the Commissioners can maintain a civil claim for damages under the tort of unlawful means conspiracy against a participant in a missing trader intra-community, or carousel, fraud"

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  5. Canada v Khosa [SCC]

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     • Matter: "Dunsmuir teaches that judicial review should be less concerned with the formulation of different standards of review and more focussed on substance, particularly on the nature of the issue that was before the administrative tribunal under review"

  6. Canada v Legare [SCC]

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     • Matter: "We are concerned on this appeal with legislation adopted by Parliament to shut that door on predatory adults who, generally for a sexual purpose, troll the Internet for vulnerable children and adolescents"

  7. Akai Holdings Ltd v Ernst & Young [CFA]

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     • Matter: "This appeal concerns the transcripts and notes of a series of private examinations and interviews conducted pursuant to or under threat of s.221 of the Companies Ordinance, Cap.32 ... [W]hether those transcripts and notes are open to inspection on discovery in the ordinary civil litigation"

  8. PCCW - HKT Telephone Ltd v Aitken [CFA]

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     • Matter: "Can an employer obtain an injunction against a former employee who acquired confidential and privileged information during his employment, to restrain him ... from being employed on matters to which such information may be relevant in his new job ...?"

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  10. Kennedy v Louisiana [USSC]

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      • Matter: "This case presents the question whether the Constitution bars respondent from imposing the death penalty for the rape of a child where the crime did not result, and was not intended to result, in death of the victim"

  11. Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc v Public Utility No 1 of Snohomish County [USSC]

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      • Matter: "Under the Mobile-Sierra doctrine, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must presume that the rate set out in a freely negotiated wholesale-energy contract meets the “just and reasonable” requirement imposed by law. The presumption may be overcome only if FERC concludes that the contract seriously harms the public interest"

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  13. AstraZeneca Ltd v Commerce Commission [NZSC]

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      • Matter: "appeal concerns the lawfulness of a notice served on AstraZeneca Ltd, a pharmaceutical supplier, by the Commerce Commission. The notice required AstraZeneca to provide the Commission with specified documents and information relating to certain of its pharmaceutical products and some dealings"

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Part 3

• Case No.:

  1. Chief Constable of the Herforshire Police v Van Colle [HL]

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     • Matter: "if the police are alerted to a threat that D may kill or inflict violence on V, and the police take no action to prevent that occurrence, and D does kill or inflict violence on V, may V or his relatives obtain civil redress against the police, and if so, how and in what circumstances?"

  2. Common Services Agency v Scottish Information Commissioner [HL]

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     • Matter: "This case raises important questions about the interaction between provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 on the one hand and provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002"

  3. Durity v AG of Trinidad & Tobago [PC]

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     • Matter: "appellant claims that the Commission's decision to suspend him from office and its delay in referring the matter to an investigating officer contravened several provisions of the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago"

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  5. Chatterjee v Ontario [SCC]

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     • Matter: "whether the Ontario Remedies for Organized Crime and Other Unlawful Activities Act, 2001, ..., which authorizes the forfeiture of proceeds of unlawful activity, is ultra vires Ontario because it encroaches on the federal criminal law power"

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  7. Ritcher v Min for Home Affairs [CCZA]

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     • Matter: "Is the current legislative scheme which limits the right of South African citizens who are registered as voters but who will be out of the country when the elections take place on 22 April 2009 consistent with the Constitution?"

  8. C.K. Chan v Frank Y.K. Yu [CFA]

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     • Matter: "When sued, the anesthetist suggested that the nerve injury to the patient’s arm occurred after the operation while the patient was conscious and recovering outside the operating theatre. But the trial judge found that the nerve injury was sustained while the patient was under anesthetic"

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  10. Pacific Bell Telephone Co v Linkline Communications Inc [USSC]

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      • Matter: "respondents here, allege that a competitor subjected them to a “price squeeze” in violation of §2 of the Sherman Act. They assert that such a claim can arise when a vertically integrated firm sells inputs at wholesale and also sells finished goods or services at retail"

  11. Plains Commerce Bank v Long Family Land & Cattle Co [USSC]

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      • Matter: "Following the sale, an Indian couple, customers of the bank who had defaulted on their loans, claimed the bank discriminated against them by offering the land to non-Indians on terms more favourable than those the bank offered to them. The couple sued on that claim in tribal court"

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  13. NZ Recreational Fishing Council Inc v NZ Big Game Fishing Council Inc [NZSC]

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      • Matter: "appeal concerns the setting of the total allowable commercial catch for kahawai in the 2004 and 2005 fishing seasons. The Minister’s determinations of the total allowable commercial catch in these years under s 20 of the Act have been overtaken by the passage of time"

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Part 4

• Case No.:

  1. Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Inc v Conor Medsystems Inc [HL]

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     • Matter: "an American competitor, applied in both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands for revocation of the patent on the ground that the claimed invention was obvious"

  2. Doherty v Birmingham City Council [HL]

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     • Matter: "whether a local authority can obtain a summary order for possession against an occupier of a site which it owns and has been used for many years as a gipsy and travellers’ caravan site."

  3. MacLeod v MacLeod [PC]

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     • Matter: "This case is about the validity and effect of a post-nuptial agreement made between a husband and wife while they were still living together"

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  5. Desrochers v Canada [SCC]

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     • Matter: "This appeal requires the Court to determine the nature and scope of the principle of linguistic equality in communications and the provision of services as implemented in Part IV of the Official Languages Act"

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  7. The Aparty v Min for Home Affairs [CCZA]

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     • Matter: "The applicants seek an order declaring sections 7(2), 7(3)(a), 8(3), 9(1) and 60(1) of the Electoral Act unconstitutional and invalid to the extent that they preclude South African citizens not ordinarily resident in South Africa from registering as voters in terms of the Electoral Act."

  8. Bright Fortune Shipping Ltd v Carewins Development (China) Ltd [CFA]

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     • Matter: "the shipper had not been paid and the consignee did not have an original bill of lading but nevertheless received the cargo because the carriers made delivery without presentation of an original bill of lading"

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  10. Pleasant Grove City, Utah v Summum [USSC]

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      • Matter: "although a park is a traditional public forum for speeches and other transitory expressive acts, the display of a permanent monument in a public park is not a form of expression to which forum analysis applies"

  11. Quanta Computer Inc v LG Electronics Inc [USSC]

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      • Matter: "whether patent exhaustion applies to the sale of components of a patented system that must be combined with additional components in order to practice the patented methods"

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  13. McAlister v Air NZ Ltd [NZSC]

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      • Matter: "Discrimination on the grounds of age has been prohibited in New Zealand human rights legislation since 1992"

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Part 5

• Case No.:

  1. E.B. Kosovo v Sec of State for the Home Department [HL]

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     • Matter: "It is not suggested that four and a half years is a reasonable time for the respondent and his officials to take to resolve an application for asylum ... [W]hat (if any) bearing does delay by the decision-making authorities have on a non-national’s rights under article 8?"

  2. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints v Gallgher [HL]

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     • Matter: "The Valuation Officer’s case is extremely simple. He says that the Temple is not a place of “public religious worship” because it is not open to the public. It is not even open to all Mormons."

  3. Fun World Co Ltd v Municipal Council of Quatre Bornes [PC]

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     • Matter: "The preferable analysis in the Board's view is that taken at first instance in Microgames Co Ltd v The Municipal Council of Curepipe 2006 SCJ 49. This too was a case where the local authority refused a municipal licence for reasons not based on any guidelines, no such guidelines having been formulated, adopted or published"

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  5. Ermineskin Indian Band & Nation v Canada [SCC]

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     • Matter: "appellants submit that the Crown’s fiduciary obligations required it to invest oil and gas royalties received on behalf of the appellants as a prudent investor would, ... Instead, the Crown retained the royalties in the Consolidated Revenue Fund"

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  7. Johncom Media Investments Ltd v M [CCZA]

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     • Matter: "This matter raises the difficult question of maintaining the correct balance between competing rights entrenched in the Bill of Rights. The present tension arises between, on the one hand, the right to freedom of expression, and the rights to privacy and dignity, on the other"

  8. Regent National Enterprises Ltd v Goldlion Properties Ltd [CFA]

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     • Matter: "This appeal turns on the true construction of a force majeure clause and its application to the material facts"

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  10. Rothgery v Gillespie County [USSC]

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      • Matter: "This Court has held that the right to counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment applies at the first appearance before a judicial officer at which a defendant is told of the formal accusation against him and restrictions are imposed on his liberty"

  11. Taylor v Sturgell [USSC]

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      • Matter: "“It is a principle of general application in Anglo-American jurisprudence that one is not bound by a judgment in personam in a litigation in which he is not designated as a party or to which he has not been made a party by service of process.” Hansberry v Lee"

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  13. Rose v Rose [NZSC]

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      • Matter: "the wife claimed half the increase in value of that property since the marriage"

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Part 6

• Case No.:

  1. Mayor & Burgesses of the London Borough of Lewisham v Malcolm [HL]

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     • Matter: "whether and in what circumstances a disabled tenant can rely upon sections 22 and 24 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to resist what would otherwise be an unanswerable claim to possession by his landlord."

  2. McKinnon v United States of America [HL]

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     • Matter: "The appellant’s main argument focuses on the wide disparity between on the one hand the predicted likely outcome if the appellant cooperated with the US authorities ... and on the other hand the threatened likely outcome if the appellant refused to cooperate ... Such a disparity, it is submitted, is disproportionate and subjected the appellant to impermissible pressure to surrender his legal rights, particularly his right to contest extradition"

  3. George v Eagle Air Services Ltd [PC]

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     • Matter: "Aircraft, even small aircraft, do not usually crash, and certainly should not do so. And, if they do, then, especially where the crash is on land as here, it is not unreasonable to suppose that their owner/operators will inform themselves of any unusual causes and not unreasonable to place on them the burden of producing an explanation"

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  5. Reg v McNeil [SCC]

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     • Matter: "This appeal concerns an accused’s motion for production of police disciplinary records and criminal investigation files relating to the Crown’s main police witness in the case against him"

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  7. S.Y. Ho v Y.L. Chan [CFA]

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     • Matter: "the question to be decided is: does it refer to the natural mother of an intestate as contended by the Respondent or his “legal mother” under Chinese law and custom as contended by the Appellant?"

  8. Ping An Securities Ltd v Zhongguó píngan baoxian (Group) Ltd [CFA]

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     • Matter: "a natural mother and her natural child is linked by a blood relationship; the status of a “legal mother” is a question of mixed law and fact; and the status of an adoptive mother is the result of a court order. There are sound policy reasons for treating these different classes of persons differently"

  9. US v Eurodif S.A. [USSC]

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     • Matter: "Section 731 of the Tariff Act of 1930 calls for “anti-dumping” duties on “foreign merchandise” sold in the United States at “less than its fair value,” 19 U. S. C. §1673, but does not touch international sales of services"

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  11. Winter v Natural Resources Defence Council Inc [USSC]

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      • Matter: "The plaintiffs complained that the Navy’s sonar training program harmed marine mammals, and that the Navy should have prepared an environmental impact statement before commencing its latest round of training exercises"

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  13. Stevens v Premium Real Estate Ltd [NZSC]

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      • Matter: "Mr and Mrs Stevens were entitled to compensation, both in equity and under s 43 of the Fair Trading Act, for any loss resulting from the non-disclosure which was both in breach of fiduciary duty and false and misleading conduct in trade"

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Part 7

• Case No.:

  1. Davis v Regina [HL]

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     • Matter: "It is a long-established principle of the English common law that, subject to certain exceptions and statutory qualifications, the defendant in a criminal trial should be confronted by his accusers in order that he may cross-examine them and challenge their evidence"

  2. Director of the Serious Fraud Office v Corner House Research [HL]

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     • Matter: "whether a decision made by the appellant, the Director of the Serious Fraud Office, ... to discontinue a criminal investigation was unlawful"

  3. Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha of Trinidad & Tobago v Maharaj [PC]

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     • Matter: "soon began to be raised about the propriety of the Trinity Cross as the nation's highest award. It was perceived by Hindus and Muslims living in Trinidad and Tobago as an overtly Christian symbol both in name and in substance"

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  5. Patrick v Canada [SCC]

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     • Matter: "The appellant contends that the police inspection of his garbage amounted to a search and seizure and was unreasonable within the meaning of s. 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Further, he says the evidence taken from the garbage, and other evidence obtained under the subsequent search warrant, should be excluded"

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  8. H.S. Wong v HKSAR [CFA]

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     • Matter: "A driver was convicted of attempting to export unmanifested cargo. Forfeiture of the cargo was sought against an unconvicted owner. It was alleged that he had been complicit in the attempt. What is the standard to which, and the approach on which, such complicity must be proved?"

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  10. Ysursa v Pocatello Education Association [USSC]

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      • Matter: "Under Idaho law, a public employee may elect to have a portion of his wages deducted by his employer and remitted to his union to pay union dues. He may not, however, choose to have an amount deducted and remitted to the union’s political action committee"

  11. Bartlett v Strickland [USSC]

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      • Matter: "whether the [Voting Rights Act 1965] can be invoked to require state officials to draw election-district lines to allow a racial minority to join with other voters to elect the minority’s candidate of choice, even where the racial minority is less than 50 percent of the voting-age population"

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  13. Nielsen v Dysart Timbers Ltd [NZSC]

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      • Matter: "It is open to someone who makes an offer to stipulate the circumstances in which it will lapse. If the offeror does not do so expressly, it may nonetheless be apparent to an objective observer that the offer was made on the basis of the existence of certain circumstances"

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Part 8

• Case No.:

  1. G v Regina [HL]

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     • Matter: "But he says that, as he was only 15 at the time of the offence, the Crown acted unduly harshly by prosecuting him under section 5 rather than under section 13, which deals with sexual offences committed by persons under 18 and carries a maximum penalty of imprisonment for 5 years"

  2. Sec of State for Home Dept v Baiai [HL]

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     • Matter: "The agreed issue is whether the scheme established by and under section 19 [Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004] involves a disproportionate interference with (and therefore a breach of) the article 12 right to marry of any or all of the respondents."

  3. Takitota v AG of the Bahamas [PC]

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     • Matter: "appellant ... was detained in custody in The Bahamas for a period of over eight years. The Court of Appeal held that the whole period of his incarceration constituted unlawful detention"

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  5. A.C. v Director of Child and Family Services [SCC]

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     • Matter: "If the apprehended child is 16 or over, no medical treatment can be ordered by the court without the child’s consent unless the court is satisfied that the child lacks the ability to understand either the relevant information or the consequences of the treatment decision"

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  8. Warren K.W. Wong v HKSAR [CFA]

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     • Matter: "in a trial where the prosecution case depends mainly on the testimony of a witness who is attacked by the defence as telling lies against the accused, is it permissible, when the accused gives evidence, to cross-examine him as to whether he knows of any reason why the witness would lie?"

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  13. Saxmere Co Ltd v The Escorial Co Ltd [NZSC]

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      • Matter: "the allegation is that, because of his connection with counsel for the Wool Board, his judicial independence may have been affected by an unconscious bias in favour of Mr Galbraith"

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Part 9

• Case No.:

  1. Slough Borough Council v M [HL]

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     • Matter: "whether a local social services authority is obliged, under ... the National Assistance Act 1948, to arrange (and pay for) residential accommodation for a person subject to immigration control who is HIV positive but whose only needs, other than for a home and subsistence, are for medication prescribed by his doctor and a refrigerator in which to keep it."

  2. Re B (Children) [HL]

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     • Matter: "The effect of the decision of the House in Re H [1996] AC 563 is that section 31(2)(a) of the Children Act 1989 requires any facts used as the basis of a prediction that a child is “likely to suffer significant harm” to be proved to have happened. Every such fact is to be treated as a fact in issue."

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  5. Alberta v Hutterian Brethren of Wilson Colony [SCC]

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     • Matter: "Since 1974 each [driver's] licence has borne a photograph of the licence holder, subject to exemptions for people who objected to having their photos taken on religious grounds"

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  7. Centre for Child Law v Min for Justice & Constitutional Development [CCZA]

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     • Matter: "The impugned sections make minimum sentences applicable to offenders aged 16 and 17 at the time they committed the offence. The High Court found these sections inconsistent with provisions of the Bill of Rights pertaining to children"

  8. HKSAR v Tin's Label Factory Ltd [CFA]

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     • Matter: "at 3 pm on the same day, the Judge said that the 1st written judgment handed down that morning was “the incorrect version” and that he was now handing down “the correct version”. He asked the parties to return their copies of the 1st written judgment. The Judge then handed down a judgment"

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  13. Williams v New Zealand [NZSC]

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      • Matter: "Mr Williams appeals against his conviction on a charge of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. He contends that there was undue delay in bringing him to trial, that his trial should have been stayed and that his conviction should therefore be set aside"

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Part 10

• Case No.:

  1. Re P (Adoption) [HL]

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     • Matter: "whether it is consistent with Convention rights as defined in section 1(1) of the Human Rights Act 1998 for a couple to be excluded from consideration as adoptive parents of a child on the ground only that they are not married. The woman is the natural mother of the child. The man is not the father"

  2. Transfield Shipping Inc v Mercator Shipping Inc [HL]

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     • Matter: "is the rule that a party may recover losses which were foreseeable (“not unlikely”) an external rule of law, imposed upon the parties to every contract in default of express provision to the contrary, or is it a prima facie assumption about what the parties may be taken to have intended"

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  5. Co-operators Life Insurance Co v Gibbens [SCC]

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     • Matter: "a claim under an accident insurance policy by Mr. Gibbens who had unprotected sex ... He thereby acquired genital herpes, which in turn caused inflammation of his spinal cord ..., which resulted in total paralysis from his mid-abdomen down"

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  7. Brummer v Min for Social Development [CCZA]

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     • Matter: "The third application is by the South African Human Rights Commission for its admission as amicus curiae. These applications arise from a request by the applicant, Mr Brümmer, a journalist, for certain records held by the Department of Social Development"

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  13. Bujak v The Solicitor General [NZSC]

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      • Matter: "The appellant challenges the registration under the provisions of the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992 of a Polish Court order restraining him from dealing with assets in this country, pending the determination of proceedings against him in Poland"

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Part 11

• Case No.:

  1. Re E (a child) [HL]

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     • Matter: "the appellant’s case, ... was that the state and its emanation the police force failed to take appropriate steps to discharge their positive obligation under article 3 of the European Convention ... to protect the appellant and her young daughter against the infliction upon them of inhuman and degrading treatment."

  2. E.M. v Sec of State for the Home Dept [HL]

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     • Matter: "The appellant claims that if she and her son AF are removed from this country to Lebanon on the direction of the respondent Secretary of State, her right to respect for her family life will be infringed and will be so on a discriminatory basis attributable to her being a woman."

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  5. Grant v Torstar Corp [SCC]

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     • Matter: "However, if the defences available to a publisher are too narrowly defined, the result may be “libel chill”, undermining freedom of expression and of the press"

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  7. Hassam v Jacobs [CCZA]

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     • Matter: "In essence, this case concerns the proprietary consequences of a polygynous Muslim marriage within the context of intestate succession"

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  13. APN NZ Ltd v Simunovich Fisheries Ltd [NZSC]

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      • Matter: "At issue in these appeals is the nature of the particulars which can be given by a defendant in a defamation suit in support of the defences of truth and honest opinion"

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  1. Helow v Sec of State for Home Dept [HL]

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     • Matter: "She avers that, in consequence, she is at risk of harm not only from Israeli agents, but also from Lebanese agents and, because of her links with the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, from Syrian agents. On that basis she claimed asylum in this country"

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  5.  Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority v Canadian Federation of Students [SCC]

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     • Matter: "The appellant transit authorities ... refused to post the respondents’ political advertisements on the sides of buses on the basis that their advertising policies permit commercial but not political advertising on public transit vehicles"

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  7. Du Toit v Min of Safety and Security [CCZA]

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     • Matter: "In the particular circumstances of this case, the question is how the amnesty provisions relate to other legislation governing the employment of members of the South African Police Service"

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  12. Ye v Min of Immigration [NZSC]

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      • Matter: "More particularly, the cases involve overstayer parents of children born in New Zealand at a time when those children attained New Zealand citizenship at birth. The children themselves could not therefore be removed from New Zealand. One important issue is the extent to which the interests of such children should feature in the necessary decision-making"

  13. Tiny Intelligence Ltd v Resport Ltd [NZSC]

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      • Matter: "appellant, obtained judgment for liability against Resport Limited, the respondent, for infringement of copyright in artistic works, being designs for a toy sword and a toy trumpet. Reproductions of these works were sold to supporters of the Crusaders rugby team"

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