Background: Amir Masa'ada sought a declaration that he owned rights in real property allegedly purchased in 2004 from the late Abd Hassan Aslan. He alleged that he had registered a cautionary note but that the transaction was never completed in the land register because of “an error, delay, and various circumstances.” He sued seven individuals alleged…
Held: Justice Gila Canfy-Steinitz treated the application as an appeal and allowed it. The Supreme Court held that no legal rule prevented the District Court from ordering disclosure of the expanded registration extract within the pending property action. Courts may order a public authority to provide relevant information or documents—including a Population Authority registration extract—when necessary to advance litigation and identify…
Background: The dispute concerns fire-safety and other relevant defects at Centrillion Point in Croydon. Wallace Estates Limited was subject to a First-tier Tribunal remediation order requiring it to remedy specified defects. Under a July 2024 agreement, Durkan Estates Limited had undertaken to carry out certain remedial work at its own cost. After the FTT refused Wallace…
Held: Sitting jointly, the TCC and FTT ordered the two sets of proceedings to be jointly managed and tried together while retaining their separate identities, parties, procedural rules and eventual judgments. They endorsed the parties’ agreed approach because of the substantial overlap in facts and issues and because a joint process would reduce the risks of inconsistent findings, duplicated evidence and…
Background: Andrew Patsalis was injured when his vehicle was rear-ended while stopped in Sydney traffic in October 2021. A dispute arose under the Motor Accident Injuries Act 2017 (NSW) over the degree of permanent impairment caused by the accident, including psychiatric impairment and whether it exceeded the 10% threshold relevant to damages for non-economic loss.
Held: The Court dismissed AAMI’s summons. It held that the Medical Assessor had considered the insurer’s submissions and the differing medical evidence, explained her conclusions sufficiently, and was not required to discuss every asserted inconsistency. Her findings concerning PTSD, major depressive disorder, causation, and pre-existing schizophrenia were matters of clinical judgment supported by medical evidence. The alleged deficiencies did not establish…
Background: The divorced parties had two dependent teenage children. Their 2021 consent order required the father to pay €100 monthly for each child and to meet 70% of specified non-monthly child expenses, including education, medical and extra-curricular costs. The children had subsequently come to live almost entirely with their mother, who was unable to work because…
Held: The High Court allowed the appeal. It found that the father had deliberately manipulated a Department of Social Protection letter to remove a paragraph recording earnings of €145,767.41 between December 2024 and December 2025, and had thereby given false evidence about his income. The court also found serious, material non-disclosure and litigation misconduct, making his evidence about his means unreliable.
Background: Laurence Chitlik alleged that he suffered an injury compensable under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program on December 6, 2019. His petition therefore had to be filed by December 6, 2022. Proceeding without counsel, Chitlik mailed the petition by certified first-class mail from Cambridge, Maryland, to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on November 26,…
Held: The Federal Circuit reversed the determination that Chitlik lacked reasonable diligence. Equitable tolling requires reasonable diligence, not maximum feasible diligence, and must be assessed case by case. The special master legally erred by effectively treating use of a non-guaranteed mailing method as categorically insufficient. The Court of Federal Claims likewise demanded too much by requiring Chitlik to monitor tracking information…
Background: Brandon Bellamy was convicted of two counts of murder, first-degree assault, criminal possession of a pistol, and carrying a pistol without a permit after a 2008 shooting in New Haven left two men dead and another wounded. The state’s principal identification evidence came from D, who saw a man outside from a second-floor window and…
Held: The Appellate Court affirmed. It held that Conway did not perform deficiently by declining to consult or present an eyewitness-identification expert because Connecticut law at the time of Bellamy’s 2010 trial generally disfavored such testimony. Conway was not required to anticipate the Connecticut Supreme Court’s later change in the law, and his cross-examination of D substantially explored the same weaknesses…
Background: The consolidated appeals arose from four Oakland Circuit Court actions alleging that defects in sewage-disposal systems caused raw sewage and storm water to flood homes in Southfield, Royal Oak, Beverly Hills, and Birmingham. Each action named Oakland County, the George W. Kuhn Drainage District, the Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner, and the relevant municipality or…
Held: The Court of Appeals held that MCR 2.118(A)(1) permits a party to amend a complaint once as a matter of right at any time before, and through 14 days after, an adverse party serves a responsive pleading. The rule’s phrase “within 14 days after” establishes the deadline for amendment as of right; it does not require the opposing party to…
Background: Prince Juty Mahn arrived in Canada from Liberia in August 2023 and claimed refugee protection that November. He alleged that he was an ordained Christian minister and that traditional elders and the Chief Zoe of the Gayelahdee clan demanded that he succeed his father in the ancestral role of “country devil.” He said he refused…
Held: The Federal Court dismissed Mahn’s application for judicial review. It held that the RAD reasonably applied subsection 110(4) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act when excluding the affidavits. Although signed after the RPD decision, the affidavits addressed events and credibility concerns that predated the decision. Mahn had three months between the RPD hearing and its decision in which he…
Background: The City of Dallas owns Fair Park and leases it to the State Fair of Texas, a nonprofit corporation that operates the annual exposition. In February 2024, the State Fair adopted a policy prohibiting patrons from carrying firearms on the fairgrounds. After receiving complaints, the Texas Attorney General notified the City that the policy violated…
Held: The Fifteenth Court of Appeals affirmed. It held that governmental immunity barred the Section 411.209 claim against the City because the statute waives immunity only to the extent it creates liability, and the record did not show that the City took any prohibited action. The State Fair adopted the handgun policy independently; the lease was silent about licensed handgun carriers;…
Background: Tonya Sheree Saldana sought supervisory review of a ruling in the Succession of Tom Frank Self, pending in Louisiana’s 21st Judicial District Court for Livingston Parish. Her notice of intent referenced a May 28, 2026 judgment, but her supplemental filing included a June 11, 2026 judgment instead, leaving the court unable to determine whether the…
Held: The Louisiana First Circuit declined to consider the writ application because it did not comply with Rule 4-5(C)(8)-(11) of the Uniform Rules of Louisiana Courts of Appeal. The court also held that rulings issued after the application was filed were not properly before it.
Background: The appellant was charged with arson and conspiracy to commit a felony based on allegations that he brokered an arrangement under which two co-defendants would commit an arson for payment. The State relied on evidence including a co-defendant's account, surveillance footage, communications records, a fire-service report, and the defendants' statements. The District Court found prima…
Held: Justice Daphne Barak-Erez partially allowed the appeal. She rejected the request to remove electronic monitoring, holding that such a significant change should not be reconsidered shortly after the previous ruling, particularly while the appellant remained subject to a supervision order and the probation service had not recommended ending electronic monitoring.
Background: Genesis (2014) UK Ltd operated a haulage business. After its operator’s licence was revoked, and after SQN Global Limited obtained a worldwide freezing order against Genesis in May 2021, money was paid from or diverted away from Genesis and company assets were transferred to the associated company Clarence Road Vehicle Services Limited (CRVS). Genesis entered…
Held: ICC Judge Mullen held that Genesis’s business had been carried on with intent to defraud creditors from at least the end of May 2021. The evidence showed a concerted attempt, following service of the freezing order, to divert receipts, transfer assets to CRVS without adequate consideration, and place value beyond creditors’ reach. Marcus Hughes, Tracy Greening and David Hughes were…