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 ::  Mosley v News Group Newspapers Limited (24 July 2008): "It would hardly be appropriate to clutter up the courts with cases of spanking between consenting adults taking place in private property and without disturbing the neighbours."
Eady J injected "proportionality" in a judgment which could have a profound effect on the "tabloid and celebrity culture to which we have become accustomed in recent years".

 ::  Ewing v News International Ltd & Ors (22 July 2008): Coulson J disposed with commendable patience an application by a 'vexatious litigant of the most enthusiastic kind' who was described as long ago as 1991 by another judge as an 'experienced and well informed litigant'.

 ::  Tam Mei Kam v HSBC International Trustee Limited (16 June 2008): “Mui Yim-fong ( 梅艷芳), also known as Anita Mui, needs no introduction in Hong Kong.”

 ::  Howell v Millais (4 July 2007): “There is no disguising the regrettable features of this case.”

 ::  Society for the Protection of Harbour v Secretary for Justice (20 March 2008): “[The Hong Kong harbour] is an asset so central to Hong Kong's identity that it is afforded a special protection”. In a concise, delightful and well balanced judgement, Hartmann J explained the issues relating to one of Hong Kong's most important assets.

Weight should ordinarily be given to the professional judgment of an editor or journalist in the absence of some indication that it was made in a casual, cavalier, slipshod or careless manner.

Lord Bingham in Jameel (Mohammed) v Wall Street Journal Sprl [2007] 1 AC 359

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 ::  Joshua Ong v Malaysian Airline System Bhd (18 March 2008): In a parent's worst nightmare, a 13-year old 'unaccompanied minor' travelled from Kuala Lumpur to Hong Kong on one of the respondent's aircrafts and suffered serious head injury when he fainted and fell as he walked up the immigration counter. The Hong Kong Court of Appeal had to decide, among other things, whether he was 'in the course of…embarking and disembarking' within the meaning of Article 17 of the Amended Warsaw Convention.

 ::  Brown v Executors of the Estate of HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother & Ors (08 February 2008): The appellant believed (without any foundation but held in good faith) that he was the illegitimate son of the late HRH Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. It has led the appellant to wish to inspect the wills of both Princess Margaret and the late HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

Did you know?

In the BCCI v Bank of England trial the 'opening speeches' by Mr Gordon Pollock QC (for the Claimants) lasted for 86 days and by Mr Nicholas Stadlen QC (for the defendant) 119 days.

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