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Fri May 01 2020

AM (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 17 - considers Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights

Booth & Anor v R [2020] EWCA Crim 575 - "where the Supreme Court itself directs that an otherwise binding decision of the Court of Appeal should no longer be followed and proposes an alternative test that it says must be adopted, the Court of Appeal is bound to follow what amounts to a direction from the Supreme Court even though it is strictly obiter. To that limited extent the ordinary rules of precedent (or stare decisis) have been modified. We emphasise that this limited modification is confined to cases in which all the judges in the appeal in question in the Supreme Court agree that to be the effect of the decision"

Bussa v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2020] HCA 18 - migration

Commonwealth of Australia v Helicopter Resources Pty Ltd & Ors [2020] HCA 16 - "accusatorial system of criminal justice"

Coughlan v The Queen [2020] HCA 15 - criminal law, arson

Defteros v Google LLC [2020] VSC 219 - Google is a publisher

Elgizouli v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 10 - international law, legal assistance

Joseph v Parnell Corporate Services Pty Ltd [2020] FCA 426 - CEO personally liable for settlement payments due to his serious misconduct

Moore v Scenic Tours Pty Ltd [2020] HCA 17 - damages, consumer guarantees

R (Alfred McConnell) v The Registrar General for England and Wales and others [2020] EWCA Civ 559 - Gender Recognition Act, registration as mother

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