Right to Counsel in UK Law

  • R (Abassi and another) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 06 Noviembre 2002
    ... ... that application and also indicated that he would not permit counsel for those applicants to adduce any evidence or make any submissions in ... on the contention that one of his fundamental human rights, the right not to be arbitrarily detained, is being infringed. They seek, by judicial ... ...
  • National Carriers Ltd v Panalpina (Northern) Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Diciembre 1980
    ... ... Before it reaches this end, it crosses more or less at right angles an intersection with Commercial Road and Manor House Street ... We are doubly indebted to counsel for the appellants, who, though aware that he had not succeeded, ... ...
  • Canada Trust Company v Stolzenberg (No 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Octubre 2000
    ... ... was the aim of inspiring business confidence and encouraging the right conditions for trade. This Convention entered into force in the United ... Counsel for the appellants relied positively on a number of provisions. She ... ...
  • Rondel v Worsley
    • House of Lords
    • 22 Noviembre 1967
    ... ... the Cause Rondel against Worsley, that the Committee had heard Counsel, as well on Monday the 26th, Tuesday the 27th, Wednesday the 28th and ... the general rule that one who bestows his labour for another has a right to recover compensation. A physician still had no right of action for fees ... ...
  • Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
    • House of Lords
    • 22 Marzo 2001
    ... ... that an action would lie by an elector who was wilfully denied a right to vote by a returning officer. Despite the recognition of the tort in a ... This leads to what was a disputed issue. Counsel for the Bank pointed out that there was no precedent in England before the ... ...
  • Broome v Cassell & Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 23 Febrero 1972
    ... ... Limited against Broome and another, that the Committee had heard Counsel as well on Monday the 29th and Tuesday the 30th, days of November last, as ... normally binding, to depart from a previous decision when it appears right to do so. In this connection they will bear in mind the danger of ... ...
  • R v Jones
    • House of Lords
    • 20 Febrero 2002
    ... ... The appellant was represented by leading and two junior counsel at that hearing when leave to appeal was granted and his appeal heard. It ... For very many years the law of England and Wales has recognised the right of a defendant to attend his trial and, in trials on indictment, has ... ...
  • Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society
    • House of Lords
    • 19 Junio 1997
    ... ... payment of the amount of £20,345.15 I/we will not longer have the right to make a claim against the Participant Firm in respect of the Claim and ... It has no technical meaning in relation to rescission. Counsel were unable to point to a single case in which the word had been used in ... ...
  • Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers
    • House of Lords
    • 26 Julio 1977
    ... ... Workers [Consolidated Appeals], That the Committee had heard Counsel, as well on Tuesday the 14th, as on Wednesday the 15th, Thursday the 16th, ... January, the Attorney-General appeared and contested the court's right to review the exercise of his discretion. After substantial argument, the ... ...
  • Malik and Mahmud v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Junio 1997
    ... ... That is the source of his right to step away from the contract forthwith ... 15 In other words, and ... After some debate with counsel the judge recast the implied term as follows: "… the employer ... ...
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