Not exact matches
But, in a written ruling on Thursday,
Lord Justice Underhill and two other judges
found the bishop's
decision was lawful under the Equality Act.
Every week until the general election, the
Lord Ashcroft Polls team will visit constituencies around Britain to
find out what people from all walks of life think about the parties, the leaders and the issues as they approach their
decision on 8 June.
The court
found that the reduction to criminal legal aid fees was not sufficiently connected to the failure to disclose the reports, so this aspect of the
Lord Chancellor's
decision was not overturned.
In case of litigation, we might
find sanctuary under the evolving «public interest responsible journalism defence «described in the 2007 Ontario case of Cusson v. Ottawa Citizen and the 2006 House of
Lord's
decision, Jameel v. Wall Street Journal Europe.
The
decision was upheld in a strong Court of Appeal, by the Master of the Rolls,
Lord Dyson and
Lord Justice Kitchin, observing that it was «inescapable» that the High Court should
find a breach of Article 3, the prohibition of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, against the police.
I was flattered to hear Sir James Mansfield, C.J. say: «Whoever reads Campbell's Reports must be astonished to
find how uniformly
Lord Ellenborough's
decisions were right.»
All three
Lord Justices in the High Court put forward different reasoning for their
decisions, but for example
Lord Justice Mummery
found that Article 9 was not engaged because if an employee takes the view that his employers» work requirements are incompatible with the exercise and manifestations of an individual's religious beliefs, he is entitled to resign and not work on Sundays.
Lord Justice Pitchfork endorsed the comment of DJ Cushing in the 2008 judgment that «there is a general expectation... that once a child is in year 2, most mothers can consider part time work consistent with their obligation to their children» and
found that HHJ Roberts had given sufficient reasoning to support her
decision.
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Lord Mance himself (writing for a group of four judges on a seven - judge court)
found it, in the context of a
decision stripping a British national of citizenship (with the corollary that he would also lose the benefits of being a European Union national), «improbable that the nature, strictness or outcome of such a review would differ according to whether it was conducted under domestic principles or whether it was also required to be conducted by reference to a principle of proportionality derived from Union law».
Judicial adventurism in Anisminic paved the way for Racal, where
Lord Diplock, in obiter dicta, misinterpreted Anisminic to
find that an administrative
decision based on an error of law is automatically a nullity.