Cases

PM R (Young) v General Medical Council [2021] EWHC 534 (Admin)

Claim by Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Health in Northern Ireland against decision to pursue disciplinary case arising out of the Inquiry into hyponatremia-related deaths. Read more  

R (CXF) v Central Bedfordshire CCG [2018] EWCA Civ 2852

Scope of duty to provide aftercare services under s117 of the Mental Health Act (MHA). Read more  

PM Cheshire West and Chester Council v P [2014] UKSC 19

Landmark case on deprivation of liberty in care settings. Read more  

PM Welsh Ministers v PJ [2018] UKSC 66

Limits on the power of a responsible clinician to impose restrictive conditions under a community treatment order. Read more  

Kettell v Bloomfold [2012] EWHC 1422 [2012] 2 P & CR DG16 : [2012] L & TR 30

Dispute between long leaseholders and freeholder over whether the freeholder could build a new block of flats on a car parking area. Read more  

Manchester Ship Canal Co Ltd v Vauxhaul Motors Ltd (Formerly General Motors UK Ltd) [2019] 2 W.L.R 852

The Supreme Court extended the jurisdiction of the court to grant relief from forfeiture to licences of land where the licence granted to the licensee possessory rights over the land. In so doing, the court rejected arguments that this would create uncertainty in relation to transactions concerning land, rather holding that there was no principled objection to treating rights to possession of land differently to rights to possession of chattels. Read more