When calculating the losses suffered by a victim of crime, the allowance to be made for losses to a retirement pension through having to retire early should have set off against them, the benefits received by way of payments for his ill-health, which payments he would not have received but for the incident. The section … Continue reading Cantwell v Criminal Injuries Compensation Board: HL 5 Jul 2001
A claim for compensation for damages resulting from repeated acts of indecent exposure could properly be refused on the basis that the crime was not a crime of violence as such. The Board must consider in each case whether the act complained of was, in the ordinary and natural meaning of the words, a crime … Continue reading L C Application for Judicial Review of Decisions of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board: OHCS 14 May 1999
The words of the scheme should be given ‘their ordinary sensible meaning’ Citations: [1972] 1 WLR 569 Statutes: Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 1990 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Cited by: Cited – Cantwell v Criminal Injuries Compensation Board IHCS 9-Feb-2000 The petitioner appealed a refusal of his claim for compensation. He was a serving police officer … Continue reading Regina v Criminal Injuries Compensation Board ex parte Staten: 1972
A disputed refusal of a claim by the board on the ground of the applicant’s character gave the right to an oral hearing. Citations: Times 20-Dec-1995 Statutes: Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 1990 24 Cited by: Appeal from – Regina v Criminal Injuries Compensation Board Ex Parte Dickson CA 19-Jul-1996 Criminal Injuries Compensation Board need not … Continue reading Regina v Criminal Injuries Compensation Board Ex Parte Dickson: QBD 20 Dec 1995
Interpretation of CICB Scheme The court should not construe the scheme as if it were a statute but as a public announcement of what the Government was willing to do. This entails the court deciding what would be a reasonable and literate man’s understanding of the circumstances in which he could under the scheme be … Continue reading Regina v Criminal Injuries Compensation Board ex parte Webb: CA 1987
Parliament’s Approval if statute rights affected In a referendum, the people had voted to leave the European Union. That would require a notice to the Union under Article 50 TEU. The Secretary of State appealed against an order requiring Parliamentary approval before issuing the notice, he saying that the notice could be given under the … Continue reading Miller and Another, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for Exiting The European Union: SC 24 Jan 2017
Standing to Claim under A1P1 ECHR The appellants had written employers’ liability insurance policies. They appealed against rejection of their challenge to the 2009 Act which provided that asymptomatic pleural plaques, pleural thickening and asbestosis should constitute actionable harm for the purposes of an action of damages for personal injury. Held: The insurers’ appeals failed. … Continue reading AXA General Insurance Ltd and Others v Lord Advocate and Others: SC 12 Oct 2011
Power to call in is administrative in nature The powers of the Secretary of State to call in a planning application for his decision, and certain other planning powers, were essentially an administrative power, and not a judicial one, and therefore it was not a breach of the applicants’ rights to a fair hearing before … Continue reading Regina (Holding and Barnes plc) v Secretary of State for Environment Transport and the Regions; Regina (Alconbury Developments Ltd and Others) v Same and Others: HL 9 May 2001
Article 50 Notice Requires Parliament’s Authority The applicant challenged a decision by the respondent that he could use Crown prerogative powers to issue a notice under section 50 TUE to initiate the United Kingdom leaving the EU following the referendum under the 2015 Act. Held: Once the notice had been given, it was irrevocable. Consultation … Continue reading Miller and Dos Santos v The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union and Others: QBD 13 Nov 2016
The parties had earlier compromised their dispute, with the claimant undertaking not to lodge any further claim unless he did so within a certain time. They now sought to commence action. Held: When considering whether to discharge such an undertaking the court should ask: ‘whether it would be just to deprive the respondent of the … Continue reading Di Placito v Slater and others: CA 19 Dec 2003
The deceased soldier died of heat exhaustion whilst on active service in Iraq. It was said that he was owed a duty under human rights laws, and that any coroner’s inquest should be a fuller one to satisfy the state’s duty under Article 2. Held: The SSD’s appeal succeeded. ‘jurisdiction’ within the meaning of Article … Continue reading Smith, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for Defence and Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening): SC 30 Jun 2010
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