Case Reports

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A man acting under a power of attorney who challenged the lawfulness of a Scottish local authority’s decisions relating to the provision of community care services to his elderly mother has had his appeal refused. The petitioner and reclaimer “PQ” claimed that the respondent Glasgow City Counc

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Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems can bring an individual action in Austria against Facebook Ireland, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled. However, he cannot bring proceedings on behalf of seven other users in Austria, Germany and India who assigned him their claims for

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A Cameroonian woman who claimed she would be subject to forced marriage and female genital mutilation if she were returned to Cameroon has been granted permission to appeal in her bid for asylum. A judge in the Court of Session granted leave to appeal after ruling that the challenge had “substanti

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A man convicted of murdering his wife who has been seeking to challenge his former employer’s decision to award him a reduced pension has had his case dismissed. David Lilburn, 54, who is currently incarcerated at the State Hospital in Carstairs after being sentenced to life imprisonment with a pu

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Organisms obtained by mutagenesis are, in principle, exempted from the obligations in the Genetically Modified Organisms Directive, according to Advocate General Bobek. Member states are free to adopt measures regulating such organisms provided they respect overarching principles of EU law.

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A man who was given an order for lifelong restriction after being convicted of attempted murder has had an appeal against his sentence refused. It was argued that the sentencing judge erred in concluding that the appellant met the “risk criteria”, but the Appeal Court of the High Court of Justic

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