Personal Rights in UK Law

  • Johnson v Gore Wood & Company (A Firm)
    • House of Lords
    • 14 Diciembre 2000
    ... ... to the conduct of his business affairs generally, including his personal financial affairs. Since the present proceedings have not progressed ... This undertaking does not limit any other of Mr. Johnson's rights against [GW]." ... 15 A confidentiality clause in ... ...
  • Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington London Borough Council
    • House of Lords
    • 07 Junio 1996
    ... ... old action for money had and received — what we nowadays call a personal claim in restitution at common law. With this precedent before him, ... The maxim must be taken as referring to rights which are suitable for judicial enforcement, but were not enforced at ... ...
  • Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society
    • House of Lords
    • 19 Junio 1997
    ... ... in which they claim as assignees of the Investors' rights against W.B.B.S. They assert that all the investors' claims against ... 50 Sections 1 and 2 dealt with the personal details of the claimants and the amount of compensation payable. Section ... ...
  • Wilson v First County Trust Ltd (No 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 10 Julio 2003
    ... ... The appeal was heard in November 2000, shortly after the Human Rights Act 1998 came into force. The Court of Appeal, comprising Sir Andrew ... ' in article 1 is apt to embrace contractual rights as much as personal rights. Contractual rights may be more valuable and enduring than ... ...
  • Attorney-General v Blake (pet. all.)
    • House of Lords
    • 27 Julio 2000
    ... ... 15 Interference with rights of property ... 16 So I turn to established, ... is not clear why it should be any more permissible to expropriate personal rights than it is permissible to expropriate property rights ... ...
  • Bank Mellat v HM Treasury (No 2)
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 Junio 2013
    ... ... 1 of the First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights ... He held that "on any view the effect has been substantial, and suffices ... objects, normally involving the invasion of the property or personal rights of identifiable persons. Cooper v Board of Works for the ... ...
  • Nokes v Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries
    • House of Lords
    • 20 Agosto 1940
    ... ... 154, which transferred to the respondent company all the property, rights, powers, liabilities and duties of a number of colliery companies, ... Counsel for the Appellant argued that a contractual right to personal service was a personal right of the employer and was incapable of being ... ...
  • Brown v Stott (Procurator Fiscal, Dunfermline)
    • Privy Council
    • 05 Diciembre 2000
    ... ... The issue was whether, compatibly with the respondent's rights under article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights , the ... balance between the general interest of the community and the personal rights of the individual, the search for which balance has been described ... ...
  • R (Razgar) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Junio 2004
    ... ... Razgar resists such removal on the ground that it would violate his rights under article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights ... The ... of the case to rigorous scrutiny, especially the applicant's personal situation in the expelling State (see Bensaid v the United Kingdom , no ... ...
  • Napier and Ettrick (Lord) v Hunter
    • House of Lords
    • 10 Diciembre 1992
    ... ... , and the payment of the money by the underwriters, the whole rights of the assured vested in them. The assured had this right of restitution ... right recognised by courts of equity in these cases and the personal rights and obligations embodied in the contract of insurance itself. No ... ...
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