Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
JudgeLORD NICHOLLS OF BIRKENHEAD,LORD STEYN
Judgment Date21 June 2004
Neutral Citation[2004] UKHL 30
CourtHouse of Lords
Date21 June 2004
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  • R Osman Omar v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 30 November 2012
    ...require it to be paid would be incompatible with a person's Convention rights. Bearing in mind the approach of the House of Lords in Ghaidan v Godin Mendoza [2004] UKHL 30, I do not consider that the implication of qualifying words with this effect contradicts the essential principles or sc......
  • Vodafone 2 v HM Revenue and Customs
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 4 July 2008
    ...cannot interpret domestic legislation so as to conform to European Union law.” 47 Lady Justice Arden then referred to the case of Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza [2004] 2 AC 557, a case under the Human Rights Act 1998 where, by Section 3 of that Act, courts construing United Kingdom legislation, w......
  • I v Dunn
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 7 September 2012
    ...1; 2007 SLT 1026; 2007 SCCR 222; [2007] HRLR 28; 24 BHRC 412 Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza sub nom Ghaidan v MendozaUNKELRWLRUNKFLRUNKUNKUNK [2004] UKHL 30; [2004] 2 AC 557; [2004] 3 WLR 113; [2004] 3 All ER 411; [2004] 2 FLR 600; [2004] 2 FCR 481; [2004] HRLR 31; [2004] UKHRR 827; 16 BHRC 671; [......
  • BXS v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 14 February 2014
    ...approach to questions arising under article 14 and, in particular, to questions of comparators. He cited several authorities. They included Ghaidan [2004] UKHL 30, where Baroness Hale at paragraph 134 discussed the ' Michalak questions', as a useful tool of analysis, but which overlap. In ......
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  • Constitutional avoidance as interpretation and as remedy.
    • United States
    • Michigan Law Review Vol. 114 No. 7, May 2016
    • 1 May 2016
    ...wording if doing so would make the statute compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights."). (145.) Ghaidan v. Godin-Mendoza [2004] UKHL 30, [32]--[33], [2004] 2 AC 557 (appeal taken from Eng.), http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/1d200304/1djudgmt/jd040621/gha-l.htm [http://......
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill A Practitioner's Guide to Inheritance Act Claims 4th ed
    • 14 August 2023
    ...1 WLR 1255, [1964] 3 All ER 373, 108 SJ 839 51, 53, 58, 184 McNulty v McNulty [2002] EWHC 123 (Ch), [2002] WTLR 737 49 Mendoza v Ghaidan [2004] UKHL 30, [2004] 2 AC 557, [2004] 3 WLR 113, HL; [2002] EWCA Civ 1533, [2003] 2 WLR 478, [2002] 4 All ER 1162, [2003] 1 FLR 468, CA 3, 91–2 Miller, ......
  • Court of Appeal
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 75-2, April 2011
    • 1 April 2011
    ...post-HRA 1998 is potentiallyfraught.With regard to the application of s. 3 of the HRA 1998, the courtconsidered Ghaidan vGodin Mendoza [2004] UKHL 30, [2004] 2 AC 557,where Lord Nicholls stated:Section 3 enables language to be interpreted restrictively or expansively.But section 3 goes furt......
  • Reverse Burden and Article 6(2) of the European Convention on Human Rights: Drunk in Charge; Terrorism Offence
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 69-6, December 2005
    • 1 December 2005
    ...This case suggests that declarations of incompatibility are to beregarded as measures of last resort (see also Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza[2004] UKHL 30, [2004] 3 WLR 113).Ben FitzpatrickJuries: Secrecy of DeliberationsAttorney-General v Scotcher [2005] UKHL 36, [2005] 1 WLR 1867The defendant s......
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