R (Williamson) v Secretary of State for Education & Employment

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date12 December 2002
Neutral Citation[2002] EWCA Civ 1926
Date12 December 2002
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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52 cases
  • R (Countryside Alliance and Others) v Attorney General and another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 June 2006
    ... ... Attorney General (2) The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ... position of hunt servants who will lose their employment if their hunts close down. First, interference with their ... ' explanation of article 9 is now reported as R (Williamson) v Secretary of State [2005] UKHL 15 , [2005] 2 AC 246 ... ...
  • Copsey v WWB Devon Clays Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 25 July 2005
    ...the unfair dismissal provisions of the 1996 Act and Article 9. In that respect it differs from the claim in R (Williamson & Ors) v. Secretary of State for Education and Employment [2005] 2 WLR 590 ( Williamson) that primary legislation should be declared to be incompatible with Article 9 (......
  • The Queen (on the Application of SG and Others (Previously JS and Others)) v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 1) Child Poverty Action Group and Another (Interveners)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 February 2014
    ... ... The benefits specified are: employment and support allowance which includes a support component; industrial injuries benefit; an ... [is] pre-eminently well suited for decision by Parliament": see per Lord Nicholls in R (Williamson) v Secretary of State for Education and Employment [2005] UKHL 15 , [2005] 2 AC 246 at para 51 ... ...
  • The Children's Rights Alliance for England v Secretary of State for Justice G4s Care and Justice Services (uk) Ltd and Another (Interested Parties)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 11 January 2012
    ... ... For instance, PCC is used to overcome resistance when trainees refuse to attend education, move location, or go to bed. Data from the reporting process at one STC show that over a quarter ... Secure Training Centres and Secure Children's Homes by Mr Peter Smallridge and Mr Andrew Williamson (the 'Williamson and Smallridge Review') who reported on 20 June 2008. She then said this: ... or physical health issue or some learning disability), incidents within an educational, employment or medical setting could give rise to this kind of argument. It does not seem to me, as will be ... ...
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4 books & journal articles
  • Accommodating Children's Rights in a Post Human Rights Act Era
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 69-3, May 2006
    • 1 May 2006
    ...in the Courtof Appeal.8SeeR(on theapplicationofWilliamsonand others)vSecretaryofState forEducation and Employment[2 002]EWCA Civ1820 [2003] 1 All ER 385, per Rix LJ at [114]. See also Arden LJ at [241].The Court ofAppeal concluded that the parentshad a right to manifest their beliefs u nder......
  • Judging the judges: are they adopting the rights approach in matters involving children?
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 33 No. 2, August 2009
    • 1 August 2009
    ...a court to conceptualise the issues in terms of a child's rights. (91) R (Williamson) v Secretary of State for Education and Employment [2003] QB 1300, 1309, 1326 (Buxton LJ), 1354-5, 1358-60 (Rix LJ), 1360, 1380-1 (Arden LJ). See also Williamson [2005] 2 AC 246, 273 (Baroness (92) 347 US 4......
  • Mark Hill, the United Kingdom
    • United States
    • Emory University School of Law Emory International Law Reviews No. 19-2, March 2005
    • Invalid date
    ...91 [2002] 1 F.L.R. 493 per Elias J, affirmed on different (and differing) grounds by the Court of Appeal (Buxton, Rix and Arden LJJ) at [2003] QB 1300. 92 Government of Wales Act 1998. 93 Human Rights Act 1988, s 3(1). 94 [1980] 3 All E.R. 918 at 924. 95 CHARITIES: A FRAMEWORK FOR THE FUTUR......
  • UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: THEORY AND PRACTICE
    • United States
    • Wiley Family Court Review No. 44-3, July 2006
    • 1 July 2006
    ...go further, should it wishto do so, and remove the defense of lawful chastisement altogether.Lord Justice Rix, in the Court of Appeal [2002] EWCA Civ 1926, ¶ 113, was obviouslyconcerned that no one had raised the justif‌ication argument. He summed up the competingconsiderations as follows: ......

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