Secretary of State in UK Law
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ONE AND MANY ‐ THE OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE
This article seeks to explain the nature of the office of Secretary of State in the United Kingdom, and how these arrangements have come about. It traces the office from its mediaeval origins, and ...
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Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Baker and Others
Discovery and inspection of documents are not only the primary investigative tools of any litigator but are also crucial to ensuring fair play between fighting litigants. Access to documents has tr...
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Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Baker & Others
This case arose from the 1995 collapse of the Barings Banking Group caused by the enormous losses resulting from Nick Lee‐son's unauthorised derivatives trading in Singapore, while general manager ...
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R v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions ex parte Holding and Barnes plc and others
Although the facts giving rise to this decision concerned planning control and planning law the decision is of relevance to the debate about the applicability of the Human Rights Act 1998 to the va...
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RR v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: Empowering Tribunals to Enforce the Human Rights Act 1998
In RR v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions – follow‐on litigation from the high‐profile bedroom tax cases – the Supreme Court handed down a judgment which has significant implications for soc...
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Equal Civil Partnerships, Discrimination and the Indulgence of Time: R (on the application of Steinfeld and Keidan) v Secretary of State for International Development
In R (on the application of Steinfeld and Keidan) v Secretary of State for International Development the Supreme Court unanimously declared that the ban on different‐sex civil partnerships was inco...
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Guilt and Innocence in the Criminal Justice System: A Comment on R (Mullen) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
The House of Lords upheld the Secretary of State's right to deny compensation under section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the ex gratia scheme to Mullen, whose conviction for conspiracy ...
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Human Rights Watch v Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Victim Status, Extraterritoriality and the Search for Principled Reasoning
In Human Rights Watch v Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal found that the relevant standard of ‘victim status’ that applies in secret su...
- Mann v Secretary of State for Employment
- A. v Secretary of State for the Home Department
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