Case Summaries

There are 29 case summaries resources. Showing items 11 - 20.

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    Case Summary: Digital Rights Ireland Ltd – v – Minister for Communication & Ors [2010] IEHC 221Issued : January 2016Standing granted to an NGO that was a sincere and serious litigant, in a case that raised important constitutional matters around retention of data affecting the public and where unlikely that an individual could afford to take such a case.
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      Case Summary: R (on the application of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) –v- Secretary of State for the Home Department [2006] EWHC 250 (Admin) Issued : July 2015Protective Costs Order was granted where it was in the public interest to determine the lawfulness of licences granted to animal researchers and the NGO challenging the licences was prepared to cap costs.
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        Case Summary: Friends of the Curragh Environment Ltd -v- An Bord Pleanála & Ors [2006] IEHC 243 Issued : July 2015Irish High Court found that in principle it had jurisdiction to award a Protective Costs Order and endorsed the principles outlined in Cornerhouse.
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          Case Summary: Weaver –v- London Quadrant Housing Trust [2009] EWCA Civ 235 Issued : July 2015Protective Costs Order was granted where it was in the public interest to resolve the question as to whether a housing trust was a “public authority” under the Human Rights Act.
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            Case Summary: Village Residents Association Ltd. -v- An Bord Pleanála and McDonalds [2000] 2 IR 321Issued : July 2015The Irish High Court found that it had in principle jurisdiction to award a Protective Costs Order, however refused to do so on facts which did not characterise a "public interest law challenge".
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              Case Summary: R (on the application of Cornerhouse Research) –v- the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [2005] EWCA Civ 192 Issued : July 2015The criteria for granting Protective Costs Orders were set out by the UK court of Appeal.
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                Case Summary: R (on the application of Remedy UK Ltd) –v- General Medical Council [2009] EWHC 2294 (Admin) Issued : July 2015Protective Costs Order granted where the matter concerned the scope of the General Medical Council’s disciplinary jurisdiction.
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                  Case Summary: R (on the application of CPAG) –v- Lord Chancellor’s Department [1998] EWHC Admin 151 Issued : July 2015Protective Costs Order was not granted where the merits of the case could not be assessed sufficiently to decide that it was in the public interest to make such an order.
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                    Case Summary: R (on the application of Compton) –v- Wiltshire Primary Care Trust [2008] EWCA Civ 749Issued : July 2015The closure of part of a hospital was of general public importance to award a Protective Costs Order.
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                      Case Summary: R (on the application of the Refugee Legal Centre) –v- Secretary of State for the Home Department [2004] EWCA Civ 1239Issued : July 2015Protective Costs Order was granted where it was in the public interest to resolve a challenge to systemic unfairness in processing asylum claims.

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