A man of great charm, humour, zest for life and total privacy, very much the artist as gregarious loner, de Kooning was born in 1904 in Rotterdam to parents who divorced when he was five; his custody was given to the father, but his mother, who owned a bar,
successfully appealed against the decision and brought him up.
Not exact matches
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) used the case of Jayson and Charlotte Carmichael, who
successfully challenged the bedroom tax at the Supreme Court, to prevent other people from relying on the Human Rights Act when
appealing against benefits
decisions at the first tier tribunal.
Successfully represented hospital in
appeals court
decision that providers are not preempted from pursuing direct state law claims
against non-self-funded ERISA health plans, and can sue such plans in their own right, rather than as assignees of the patient's ERISA benefits.
Edward Denehan
successfully appealed to the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber)
against a
decision of the First Tier Tribunal refusing to allow a landlord to recover litigation costs
against a tenant under an indemnity clause in a long lease in a case where the FTT had awarded the landlord part of its costs under rule 13 (1)(b) of the Tribunal Procedure (First - tier Tribunal)(Property Chamber) Rules 2013: 87 St George's Square Management Ltd v Michael Henry Anthony Whiteside [2016] UKUT 438 (LC).
She also
successfully represented a client
against a consumer group's claim which
appealed a Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
decision to allow dentists to use mercury fillings.
In 2013, she
successfully argued for reversal by the New York State Court of
Appeals of an adverse
decision by an intermediate appellate court in a lease interpretation matter, thereby obtaining dismissal of the suit in its entirety
against her client.
CMA Nurseries Ltd v Secretary of State for Education (2015)
Successfully represented the appellant Orthodox Jewish School in an
appeal against the SSE's
decision to remove it from the register of independent schools.
Mr. Azar's pro bono work has also included
successfully persuading the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals to allow a disabled prisoner's federal civil rights case to proceed, resulting in a published
decision on a matter of first impression; assisting tenants in disputes with their landlords; and assisting a translator in defending
against contempt proceedings relating to her alleged whistleblowing about safety defects in automobiles.