UK Supreme Court Cases

Question 1

Regina v Jogge
• Year
• Ruling

Answer 1

2016
The precedent of being found guilty of the same crime under joint enterprise as the individual who committed it overturned, effectively rewritten the law on joint enterprise

Question 2

Name UK Supreme Court cases that challenge the government’s power

Answer 2

• HM Treasury v Ahmed et al
• R v Commissioner of Police
• Tigre v Business Dept
• Miller and Dos Santos v Secretary of State for Exiting the EU
• Belhaj v Straw

Question 3

Name UK Supreme Court cases that support the government’s power

Answer 3

• Nicklinson et al V Ministry of Justice
• Beghal v DPP
• MM Lebanon v Home Sec

Question 4

HM Treasury v Ahmed et al
• Year
• Ruling

Answer 4

2010

Treasury had acted ultra vires in freezing assets of terrorist suspects

Question 5

R v Commissioner of Police
• Year
• Ruling

Answer 5

2011

Ruled against retention of DNA from people not charged or acquitted of crimes

Question 6

Tigre v Business Dept
• Year
• Ruling

Answer 6

2015

Ruled in favour of Zambian student (lived in UK 12 years but no indefinite leave to remain) to get student finance

Question 7

Belhaj v Straw
• Year
• Ruling

Answer 7

2017

Allowed for the opening of cases against former For. Sec. and potentially MI6 and gov over rendition and torture

Question 8

Miller and Do Santos v Secretary of State for Exiting the EU
• Year
• Ruling

Answer 8

2017

Ruled that parliament had to have a final say on the invoking of Article 50

Question 9

Nicklinson et al V Ministry of Justice
• Year
• Ruling

Answer 9

2015

Ruling against citizens who wanted to attend a Swiss suicide clinic

Question 10

Beghal v DPP
• Year
• Ruling

Answer 10

2015

Woman arguing her rights had been violated in her arrest at the airport under Terrorism Act ruled against

Question 11

MM Lebanon v Home Sec
• Year
• Ruling

Answer 11

2017

UPholds that British citizens wanting to bring a non-EU spouse to the UK must earn over a threshold in income

Question 12

Name two UK Supreme Court cases that involve Human Rights

Answer 12

• Hirst v United Kingdom - said prisoners being denied vote was a break of human rights
• A v Secretary of State for the Home Department - Belmarsh prisoners (tried in the House of Lords because SUpreme court not created yet)

Question 13

R (Factortame Ltd) v Sec. of State for Transport
• Year
• Ruling

Answer 13

• 1990
• Ruled against the UK government, showing that the EU had precedent. Also established notion that Supreme Court could suspend Acts of Parliament if in violation of EU law