Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website.

On Wednesday 11 January the Court will hand-down judgment in McCue (as guardian for Andrew McCue) (AP) v Glasgow City Council (Scotland) [2023] UKSC 1, on appeal from [2020] CSHI 51. The key issue concerns whether the Respondent’s charging policy for community care services is discriminatory. The Respondent, a local authority, has the power to charge for its services, although certain deductions may be applied to reduce the contribution payable. This appeal concerns the Respondent’s decision to allow only certain deductions together with the validity of the

In this post, Mathew Purchase KC of Matrix Chambers previews the forthcoming judgment in the case of R (Day) v Shropshire Council, on appeal from [2020] EWCA Civ 1751.

background

Shrewsbury Town Council owned a plot of land which was subject to a statutory trust arising either under section 10 of the Open Spaces Act 1906 or, impliedly, under the Public Health Act 1875. Pursuant to that trust, the town council had to allow the public to enjoy the land as an open space.

Under the Local Government Act 1972 (‘the 1972 Act’), the town council was permitted to dispose

Over the past few months, general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a hot topic for policymakers. The ‘AI hype’ that followed the seemingly immediate success of the conversational bot ChatGPT has led to renewed calls for regulation in the EU, placing Large Language Models (LLMs) in the spotlight. Such models, which can be described as a subset of general-purpose AI that can process and generate human-like text, are increasingly being integrated into various industries. Healthcare is no exception, with potential applications ranging from clinical and operational decision-making to patient engagement. AI enthusiasts hope that LLMs will enable better communication

This appeal is concerned with the meaning of a condition that was attached to the grant of planning permission for a development site in the outskirts of Swindon. The proposed development included two roads, a “North-South access road” which ran southward from a new junction with the A420 and continued to the southern boundary of the site, and an “East-West spine road” which ran to the eastern boundary of the site from a roundabout on the North-South access road. The appellant’s planning committee granted outline planning permission for the site subject to a number of conditions. Condition 39 read as

Author: Marine Corhay

On 25 January 2023, the Council of the EU confirmed an agreement with the European Parliament has been reached on both the draft regulation and the draft directive on cross-border access to e-evidence. The first part of this article focused on the description of the instrument, as proposed by the Commission back in 2018, by explaining how it departs from traditional mutual recognition instruments and mutual legal assistance (MLA) agreements and highlighted some of the concerns raised by relevant stakeholders. This second part will discuss the role of service providers. It will present the approach put forth

After weeks with no updates, there’s a new development in the ongoing battle around the federal student loan forgiveness program. Last night, Jan. 4, the Biden administration officially filed a legal brief with the US Supreme Court in which they defended the plan to provide relief to 45 million American student loan borrowers.

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According to CNBC, a team of lawyers from the Department of Education and the Department of Justice filed paperwork which “argues

In this post, Tara McCarthy and James Warshaw, associates in the litigation team at CMS, preview the decision awaited from the Supreme Court in Brake and Anor v Chedington Court Estate Ltd.

Factual Background

The respondents in the Supreme Court are a married couple, Mr and Mrs Brake, and their son. Mr and Mrs Brake lived on a farm which they ran as a wedding and events venue in partnership with a third party. Mr and Mrs Brake contributed the farm as property of the partnership. The partnership later acquired legal title to the cottage which was transferred to