Equality of Arms in UK Law

  • Brown v Stott (Procurator Fiscal, Dunfermline)
    • Privy Council
    • 05 December 2000
    ... ... cit. , at paragraph 11.191 ... 36 Equality of arms ... 37 Equality of arms between the prosecutor and ... ...
  • Al-Rawi & others v The Security Service & others
    • Supreme Court
    • 13 July 2011
    ... ... There is no unfairness or inequality of arms. The effect of a closed material procedure is that closed documents are ... secure basic constitutional rights of fairness, open justice and equality of arms, as well as to maintain confidence in the integrity of the ... ...
  • O'Neill v Phillips
    • House of Lords
    • 20 May 1999
    ... ... entitlement in favour of Mr. O'Neill to produce equality. In 1988 £49,900 of retained profits, which partly represented Mr ... Fourthly, the offer should, as in this case, provide for equality of arms between the parties. Both should have the same right of access to ... ...
  • Secretary of State for the Home Department v MB [House of Lords
    • House of Lords
    • 31 October 2007
    ... ... as possible, with the requirements of adversarial proceedings and equality of arms and incorporated adequate safeguards to protect the interests of ... ...
  • R (Corner House Research) v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 01 March 2005
    ... ... Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and on equality of treatment, but his most powerful contention, at any rate for the ... he also suggested that it somewhat told against the "equality of arms" approach if, unlike the Refugee Legal Centre, Corner House would be ... ...
  • R v H and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 05 February 2004
    ... ... to procedure, should be adversarial and that there should be equality of arms between the prosecution and defence. The right to an adversarial ... ...
  • Tariq v Home Office
    • Supreme Court
    • 13 July 2011
    ... ... was contrary to the Race Relations Act 1976 and the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/1660). The Home Office's ... The Court reiterates that according to the principle of equality of arms, as one of the features of the wider concept of a fair trial, each party ... ...
  • B (A Child)
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 June 2013
    ... ... compliant way is normally made in relation to such issues as equality of arms, access to relevant material, the ability to know the case against ... ...
  • Hamilton v Al-Fayed (No 2)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 May 2002
    ... ... who wish out of charity to achieve (i) above and a measure of equality of arms should not be discouraged. (k) The respondents were ... ...
  • Skjevesland v Geveran Trading Company Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 October 2002
    ... ... 15 Mr Jones also relies on the principle of equality of arms in article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights ... He ... ...
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