ICLR Case Reports and Summaries - last 7 days

PRACTICE — Anonymity order — Withholding information from party — Local authority initiating care proceedings — Parents rejecting authority of state and posing potential risk to professionals — Local authority and guardian seeking to withhold names of professionals from parents — Whether court having inherent common law power to derogate from principle of open justice by making ...

SHIPPING — Charterparty — Construction — Owners refusing order to load cargo shipped by Russian oil company — Charterparty permitting refusal where owner forming reasonable judgement compliance would “expose … to sanctions” — Whether requiring judgement that sanctions more likely than not to be breached — Whether reasonable judgement that real risk of sanctions liability suffici...

COMMONS — Common land — Registration — Application to register land as common land — Local authority declining to determine application for lack of jurisdiction — Whether local authority having jurisdiction to determine application — Whether land registrable as “waste land of a manor” — Commons Registration Act 1965 (c 64), ss 1, 2, 3, 4, 22(1) — Commons Act 2006 (c 26), ss 19, ...

TRIBUNAL — First-tier Tribunal — Practice and procedure — Parent bringing disability discrimination claim against school — Parent applying to admit additional evidence after final deadline — Parent sharing medical evidence in support of late application with tribunal but requesting evidence not disclosed to other party — Approach to be applied by tribunal on application to rely ...

CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction — Consumer contract — Statute conferring jurisdiction on English court where consumer contract concluded when consumer domiciled in United Kingdom — Consumer domiciled in England bringing consumer claim in England against bank — Whether contract “concluded” when account first opened or when new terms signed — Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1...