Adjudicated Cases with Public International Law elements:

SerVaas Inc v Rafidain Bank [2012] UKSC 40

Issue: whether a debt owed by the Defendant to the Republic of Iraq was commercial, or whether it was immune from execution under the State Immunity Act 1978.

Serious Organised Crime Agency v Perry [2012] UKSC 35

Issue: whether the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 allowed SOCA to obtain freezing orders and disclosure orders in respect of property and persons located outside the UK.

Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority [2012] UKSC 22

Issue: whether a public prosecutor in Sweden was a judicial authority, for the purposes of the Extradition Act 2003.

ML Capital Ltd v Republic of Argentina [2011] UKSC 31

Issue: whether Argentina could rely on the principle of state immunity to prevent enforcement of a judgment against its assets in the UK.

R. (Smith) v Secretary of State for Defence [2010] UKSC 29

Issue: whether British troops on active service overseas were protected by the Human Rights Act 1998.

Her Majesty's Treasury v Ahmed [2010] UKSC 2

Issue: the lawfulness of certain asset-freezing orders made under the United Nations Act 1946 to give effect to a UN Resolution regarding the financing of terrorism.

RB (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] UKHL 10

Issue: the lawfulness of deportation in a case where the deportees alleged that they would be tortured on their return to their home country.

R. (Hafner) v Westminster Magistrates' Court [2008] EWHC 524 (Admin)

Issue: the privacy rights of third parties in relation to evidence obtained in London and forwarded to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission under the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003.

Jersey Fishermen's Association Ltd v Guernsey [2007] UKPC 30

Issue: the lawfulness of an ordinance passed by the Guernsey parliament relating to fishing inside and outside its territorial waters.

Republic of Ecuador v Occidental Exploration and Production Co [2005] EWCA Civ 1116

Issue: whether an English court has jurisdiction to interpret a bilateral investment treaty in order to determine a jurisdictional challenge to an arbitral award under the Arbitration Act 1996.

Jones v Saudi Arabia [2004] EWCA Civ 1394

Issue: the operation of the principle of state immunity in a case where a state was alleged to have committed torture.

R. (B) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2004] EWCA Civ 1344

Issue: whether the Human Rights Act 1998 applied to British consular officials in Australia and whether the officials had breached the human rights of certain asylum-seekers in Australia.

R. (Abassi) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2002] EWCA Civ 1598

Issue: whether the Foreign Secretary had a duty to make representations to the US government on behalf of a British national detained at Guantanamo Bay.

R. v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, Ex Parte Pinochet [2000] 1 AC 147 (HL)

Issue: the operation of the principle of the immunity of a head of state, with regard to the extradition of General Pinochet.

Adjudicated General Commercial / Common / Public Law

Moore Stephens (a firm) v Stone Rolls Ltd [2009] UKHL 39 (30 July 2009)

Issue : Extension of Ex Turpi Causa .

Lexington Insurance Co v AGF Insurance Ltd [2009] UKHL 40 (30 July 2009)

Issue : Insurance - follow the settlement convention in reinsurance contracts.

Purdy, R (on the application of) v Director of Public Prosecutions [2009] UKHL 45 (30 July 2009)

Issue :Landmark decision on assisted suicide.

Gray v Thames Trains & Ors [2009] UKHL 33 (17 June 2009)

Issue :Causation principles extended

Generics (UK) Ltd & Ors v H Lundbeck A/S [2009] UKHL 12 (25 February 2009)

Issue : Biotechnology / Patents

Sugar v British Broadcasting Corp & Anor [2009] UKHL 9 (11 February 2009)

Issue : Freedom of Information Act

McKinnon v The United States of America & Anorr [2008] UKHL 59 (30 July 2008)

Issue : Extradition - Hague Convention

McGrath & Ors v Riddell & Ors (Conjoined Appeals) [2008] UKHL 21 (9 April 2008)

Issue : International insolvency

Lesotho Highlands Development Authority v. Impregilo SpA & Ors [2005] UKHL 43 (30 June 2005)

Issue : Rights to Appeal from Arbitration Awards

Shogun Finance Ltd v. Hudson [2003] UKHL 62 (19 November 2003)

Issue : Fraudulent Misrepresentation

• Born 21 January 1938
• 1951 - 1956 Bryanston School, where he studied classics.
• 1958 - 1961 King's College Cambridge. Exhibitioner - 1st Class degree in Part II Law Tripos.
• 1962 Called to the Bar by the Middle Temple (Harmsworth Scholar).
• 1962 - 1978 Practised at the Bar. Specialising in Admiralty and Commercial work
• 1973 - 1978 Junior Counsel to the Ministry of Defence and to the Treasury in Admiralty matters.
• 1978 QC.
• 1982 - 1987 Recorder.
• 1987 - 1995 Judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division, where sat in the Commercial Court. Also presided over the Barlow Clowes and Maxwell prosecutions.
• 1995 Promoted to the Court of Appeal.
• 12 January 1999 Elevated to Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
• 6 June 2000 - 2005 Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice.
• 1 October 2005 Appointed Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
• 1 October 2008 Appointed Senior Law Lord.
• 2009 - 2012 President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
• 13 June 2011 Made a Knight of the Garter.

Positions Held

• 1975 - 1981 Governor of Bryanston School
• 1981 - 2008 Chairman of the Governors of Bryanston School
• 1979 - 1987 Member of the Panel of Wreck Commissioners
• 1991 - 1997 Chairman British Council Law Advisory Committee
• 1992 - 1997 Chairman Council of Legal Education
• 1993 - 2005 Vice President British Maritime Law Association
• 1998 - 2000 Chairman of the BSE Inquiry
• 1999 - Advisory Council of Institute of European and Comparative Law
• 1999 - Council of Management, British Institute of International and Comparative Law
• 1999 - Honorary Fellow of The Society for Advanced Legal Studies
• 2000 - 2005 Trustee Magna Carta Trust
• 2000 - 2005 Visitor - Nuffield College, Oxford
• 2000 - 2005 Visitor - University College, London
• 2000 - 2005 Chairman Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Public Records
• 2000 - Advisory Council of Institute of Global Law
• 2003 - Honorary Fellow King's College Cambridge
• 2005 - President, British Maritime Law Association
• 2005 - 2008 Visitor, Darwin College, Cambridge
• 2012 - Distinguished Visitor, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London

Honorary Degrees

• 1993 Hon LLD, Exeter University
• 2003 Hon LLD, Birmingham University
• 2003 Doctor of Civil Law City University, London
• 2005 Honorary LLD, London University
• 2007 Hon LLD, International Maritime Law Institute
• 2009 Doctor of Laws, University of Wolverhampton
• 2010 Doctor of Laws, Wake Forest University, North Carolina

Recreations

Walking, Swimming, France.