Equality before the Law in UK Law

  • Ong Ah Chuan v Public Prosecutor; Koh Chai Cheng v Public Prosecutor
    • Privy Council
    • 15 October 1980
    Fundamental rules of natural justice in the field of criminal law. Controlled drug. Offence of trafficking. Mandatory sentence of death
    ... ... Choor Singh and Rajah JJ The accused was charged and tried before us on the following charge: ... That you, Ong Ah Chuan, on or ... to `law` in such contexts as `in accordance with law`, `equality before the law`, `protection of the law` and the like, in their Lordships` ... ...
  • A, X and Y and Others and Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • House of Lords
    • 16 December 2004
    ... ... 1 The nine appellants before the House challenge a decision of the Court of Appeal (Lord Woolf CJ, ... 115 , Professor Hersch Lauterpacht wrote: "The claim to equality before the law is in a substantial sense the most fundamental of the ... ...
  • Paponette and Others v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago
    • Privy Council
    • 13 December 2010
    ... ... due process of law; (b) the right of the individual to equality before the law and the protection of the law; … ... ...
  • R (Association of British Civilian Internees Far Eastern Region) v Secretary of State for Defence
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 April 2003
    ... ... scheme unless he was a British national normally resident in the UK before internment who had returned to take up residence in the UK on or before ... conjunction with article 14; and (b) the common law principle of equality. As we understood it, Mr Pannick accepted that these arguments did not add ... ...
  • R (Carson) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
    • House of Lords
    • 26 May 2005
    ... ... 4 There are two appeals before your Lordships which were argued separately but in which judgments are ... from that of a UK resident and that she therefore cannot claim equality of treatment, the amount (if any) which she receives must be a matter for ... ...
  • Bellinger v Bellinger
    • House of Lords
    • 10 April 2003
    ... ... 2 In an alternative claim, advanced for the first time before your Lordships' House, Mrs Bellinger seeks a declaration that section ... In the interests of legal certainty, foreseeability and equality before the law the court should not depart, without good reason, from ... ...
  • Rolls Royce Plc v Unite the Union
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 May 2009
    ... ... of the law on redundancy selection under the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (the Regulations). The (company) requires the ... 4 On 21 July 2008, the proceedings came before Bean J for directions. He ordered that Part 8 of the CPR applied to the ... ...
  • Harrikissoon v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago
    • Privy Council
    • 1979
  • Secretary of State for the Home Department v MB [House of Lords
    • House of Lords
    • 31 October 2007
    ... ... obligations on that individual." At the preliminary hearing before such an order is made, or immediately after in case of urgency, the ... as possible, with the requirements of adversarial proceedings and equality of arms and incorporated adequate safeguards to protect the interests of ... ...
  • Matadeen v Pointu
    • Privy Council
    • 1998
    ... ... - Whether Constitution expressing general justiciable principle of equality - Whether need for conformity with international instrument requiring ... subjects would be ranked on the results of those subjects as before ... The question of introducing oriental languages into the C.P.E ... ...
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