Scottish Human Rights Law Group

[2010] EWCA Civ 56
Although the system of single payment of child tax credit to the person mainly responsible for the child indirectly discriminated against men it was justified as a proportionate means of pursuing a legitimate aim of social policy.
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Banerjee saw the court refusing to anonymise, following a public hearing, a judgment about the taxation issues around a doctor’s expenses. Dr Banerjee argued that she was vulnerable to attack or identity theft, that it would be professionally embarrassing to her to be named and that there was no public interest in identifying her.

An injunction was continued against republication by The Guardian of documents, including legally-privileged documents, purportedly showing tax-avoidance strategies by banks.

 
Structural bias and the Auditor of the Court of Session
 
It was claimed that there was a breach of Article 6 impartiality from the fact that the fees for the Auditor of the Court of Session, who has the task of fixing the precise amount of fees which the winning party in a civil action in the Court of Session who …

The other pre-emptive and protective remedy commonly obtained as a matter of course when raising a court action in Scotland was a warrant to arrest, on the dependence of the action, any funds belonging to the defenders which were in the hands of third parties. [1] The authority for diligence was granted by a clerical act of a clerk of …