Background: A 78-year-old California resident who inherited a Jerusalem apartment sought to unwind or obtain damages for its sale more than a decade earlier. On May 27, 2015, Vita Primet Rosenthal signed a power of attorney in Hebrew authorizing respondent Aryeh Weiss, her longtime lawyer, to sell the property on her behalf. She claimed she did…
Held: The Supreme Court, in a decision by Justice Khaled Kabub, affirmed the district court's denial of interim relief. The Court emphasized that appellate intervention in interim relief decisions occurs only in exceptional circumstances and that such relief requires both a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits and a balance of convenience favoring the applicant.
Background: Narinder Kaur, a broadcaster and social commentator, sued Laurence Fox, a former actor and leader of the political party Reclaim, for libel, misuse of private information, breach of data protection, and harassment. The defendant had published 40 social media posts (tweets and YouTube videos) between April 2024 and April 2025, of which 18 were alleged…
Held: Justice Linden provided comprehensive guidance on applying traditional defamation principles to social media publications. The court held that the hypothetical reasonable reader standard must be adapted for social media's conversational and fast-paced nature, requiring an "impressionistic" rather than careful analytical approach. Readers of social media "do not pause and reflect" but form impressionistic, fleeting reactions. Context can inform meaning, but…
Background: The Institute of Fishery Resources, Varna, was a beneficiary under the Black Sea Basin 2014-2020 Joint Operational Programme for Cross-Border Cooperation, co-financed by the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The Institute awarded a public service contract (approximately EUR 5,000) for video film production under the Timmod project. Bulgaria's national…
Held: The Court of Justice clarified the legal framework governing irregularities and financial corrections in EU-funded cross-border cooperation programmes. The judgment addresses the tension between different definitions of "irregularity" under EU law and establishes that financial corrections must comply with strict proportionality requirements, particularly when EU services are ultimately delivered.
Background: FKCV, born in Ethiopia in 1993 to Sudanese parents, arrived in Australia in 2007 on a Global Special Humanitarian (Subclass 202) visa. In 2020, while holding this humanitarian visa, the applicant was convicted of a serious offence involving sexual assault and family violence and sentenced to a term of imprisonment. As a result, the Minister's…
Held: Justice Jackson allowed the application for judicial review and set aside the Tribunal's decision. The Court found jurisdictional error in the Tribunal's reasoning on two grounds. First, concerning the primary consideration of protection of the Australian community: the Tribunal concluded that community protection weighed heavily against revocation but failed to reconcile this finding with its own conclusion (at paragraph 102…
Background: Anthony Dume appealed a judgment entered against him in the County Court for Polk County, with Judge Hope M. Pattey presiding. Dume represented himself pro se in the appeal. Florida Camp Inn MH, LLC was the appellee, represented by counsel Shawn D. Arbeiter and Suzanne M. McLean of Hinden McLean & Arbeiter, P.A.
Held: The Sixth District Court of Appeal affirmed the lower court's judgment in a per curiam opinion issued without written explanation of the court's reasoning.
Background: In 2021, Shapir Engineering and Navigation Ltd. and Bloom Technology Ltd. (the operators) won a tender to upgrade and operate a desalination facility in Ashdod's northern industrial zone. To power the facility, they proposed building a co-located power station with five 100-megawatt generating units fueled by gas engines. Part of the power would supply the…
Held: Justice Stein granted the stay and found the appeal has good prospects of success. The court rejected the District Court's broad interpretation of "best available technique." The statutory text of section 22(d) of the Clean Air Act explicitly distinguishes between "source of emissions" and the technique that must accompany it. Similarly, section 2's definition of "best available technique" refers to…
Background: The appellants, David Todd and Caroline Hodge, purchased Wyland Wood, a country house and garden property in East Sussex, from Stephen Baldwin in February 2018. At the time of sale, Baldwin retained ownership of two neighboring parcels: the Marsh Land (6.5 acres to the west and south) and the Tapstone Land (to the southeast). A…
Held: Mr Justice Michael Green dismissed the appeal and upheld the trial judge's findings. The court confirmed that the legal boundary between Wyland Wood and the Marsh Land follows the registered title plan, which accurately reflects the boundary depicted in a 1970 conveyance and subsequent historic documents. Both expert surveyors agreed that this "paper title boundary" runs along an old tree…
Background: The Slovak State Housing Development Fund (ŠFRB) is a public body established by law to implement housing policy by granting housing loans at preferential rates to natural persons. In December 2006, the ŠFRB loaned EUR 33,193.92 to GL and KL for home purchase, with SC as guarantor. When GL and KL defaulted in 2018, the…
Held: The CJEU held that a public body established to carry out non-profit housing assistance through preferential loans IS a "seller or supplier" within Directive 93/13 when those loan agreements fall within its professional activity. The Court rejected the argument that public law status, non-profit operation, or public interest purpose excludes an entity from the Directive's scope. The EU legislature deliberately…
Background: Ms Desarae Bennell applied to be joined as a respondent in the Nangaanya-ku Part B native title determination proceeding under s 84(5) of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth). The Nangaanya-ku claim concerns land in Western Australia. Part A of the claim was determined in 2021 (by consent) to hold native title. Part B was…
Held: Jackson J dismissed Ms Bennell's application on the ground that she had not satisfied the requirements of s 84(5). The Court held that Ms Bennell is not a person whose interests may be affected by the proposed Part B determination in a "demonstrable way." Under the existing terms of the Nangaanya-ku determination, the native title holders are broadly defined as…
Background: Alexander James Wiggins appealed from an order of the Circuit Court for Duval County, presided over by Judge Mark J. Borello. This was a post-conviction relief appeal under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850, in which Wiggins, appearing pro se, sought to challenge his conviction. The State of Florida, represented by the Attorney General's office,…
Held: The Fifth District Court of Appeal affirmed the circuit court's order in a per curiam opinion. The appellate court issued no written opinion explaining its reasoning, issuing only a one-word affirmance. Justices Edwards, Eisnaugle, and Kilbane concurred in the decision.
Background: Tzilelei HaHinuch is a nonprofit association operating daycare centers. In 2018, it won a tender published by Harish Municipality to operate a daycare facility and signed a contract on August 4, 2019. Several years into performance, on May 12, 2026, the municipality's legal department notified the association that an inspection had revealed unauthorized construction at…
Held: Justice David Mintz dismissed the interim relief request. He held that interim relief on appeal requires the applicant to demonstrate both (1) strong prospects of success on the underlying appeal and (2) a balance of convenience favoring the applicant, with the latter consideration given priority weight. While the association's administrative law arguments were not without foundation, the respondents' decision to…
Background: Dr Arunoday, a Consultant Neonatologist, appealed under section 40 of the Medical Act 1983 against a Medical Practitioners Tribunal decision that his fitness to practise was impaired and that his name should be erased from the medical register. The Tribunal, after a nine-day hearing, found that Dr Arunoday had engaged in serious sexual misconduct against…
Held: Mr Justice Poole dismissed the appeal and upheld the Tribunal's decision. The court held that the Tribunal's factual findings, particularly those based on credibility assessments of the two witnesses, were entitled to substantial deference on appeal. While credibility findings are not literally immune from review, they can only be overturned if they are "so out of tune with the evidence…