Background: Adalah and the Joint List petitioned the High Court of Justice to prohibit polling-place workers and party representatives appointed under the Knesset Elections Law from carrying firearms inside polling-place complexes during the October 27, 2026 election. An October 1 police directive allowed an official or party representative holding a valid firearms license to bring a…
Held: The Court unanimously dismissed the petition and awarded no costs. Justice Gila Canfy-Steinitz, writing for the panel, held that the petitioners had not established grounds for judicial intervention in the professional judgment of the police or the election committee chair. Courts do not substitute their judgment for that of the authorized agency absent a fundamental defect, particularly where public-security decisions…
Background: Compagnia Italiana di Navigazione S.p.A. (CIN), the charterer of the sister vessels EUROCARGO CATANIA and EUROCARGO SICILIA, challenged two related London Maritime Arbitrators Association awards made in favor of their owner, Grimaldi Euromed S.p.A. The underlying disputes arose from materially identical bareboat charterparties and allegations that CIN had failed properly to maintain and repair the…
Held: Mr Justice Saini dismissed both applications. The tribunal had applied the correct fair-warning test after extensive written and oral argument and had acted fairly in permitting Grimaldi to pursue the cylinder-head claims. The issue was already sufficiently in play: the claim materials included invoices relating to cylinder heads, CIN’s expert had addressed cavitation pitting and allowed the cost of replacing…
Background: Urban [Address 3], an Intermarché Express supermarket operator, entered into a partnership agreement with ITM Alimentaire International in 2017, with ITM Alimentaire Région Parisienne responsible for supplies and Immo Mousquetaires leasing the premises. The agreement contained an arbitration clause. Urban later sought to annul the agreement for fraud and recover operating losses, but a September…
Held: The Court of Cassation dismissed the appeal. Under Article 1448 of the Code of Civil Procedure, a state court ordinarily must decline jurisdiction over a dispute covered by an arbitration agreement unless the agreement is manifestly void or manifestly inapplicable. Here, however, the liquidator’s tort action under Article 1240 of the Civil Code sought to remedy alleged misconduct that caused…
Background: In the principal judgment, Walker v Adams [2026] NSWSC 1183, the Court ruled for defendant and cross-claimant Dianne Michelle Adams in a dispute concerning the scope and extinguishment of a right of carriageway. Plaintiff and cross-defendant Stephen Charles Walker had failed to establish that the easement permitted his proposed use or accommodated Lot 54, while…
Held: The Court applied the usual rule that costs follow the event and ordered Walker to pay Adams’s costs on the ordinary basis. Although Adams had abandoned or failed on several contentions, the questions on which Walker’s claim failed were raised by the pleadings and were matters he had prepared to meet. Her abandonment of the contention that the statutory Schedule…
Background: Fujifilm leased an Iridesse commercial printer to Federal Marketing under a 60-month rental agreement and separately agreed to service the equipment. Federal’s director, Lim Peng Huat, and his wife, Ng June Fong, jointly and severally guaranteed Federal’s payment and performance obligations.
Held: The High Court allowed Fujifilm’s claims in full and dismissed the defendants’ counterclaims. Federal failed to prove the alleged new agreement waiving rent; the asserted arrangement also lacked consideration, and the written rental agreement contained a no-oral-modification clause. Although Fujifilm had temporarily refrained from strictly collecting rent, that conduct did not establish a permanent relinquishment of its rights. Any promissory…
Background: The appellants sought to invalidate the proportional-representation portion of the regular House of Councillors election held on July 20, 2025. They argued that the Public Offices Election Act’s “special quota” system, under which political parties may give designated proportional-representation candidates priority over other candidates on their lists, violated Article 43(1) of Japan’s Constitution.
Held: The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the appeal and ordered the appellants to bear the appellate costs. It held that the statutory provisions establishing the special-quota system for the House of Councillors’ proportional-representation election do not violate Article 43(1) or other constitutional provisions. The Court said that conclusion followed from, or was clear in light of, its Grand Bench judgments of…
Background: Jordan Dodd pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography and conspiring to produce child pornography. His history included a juvenile conviction for repeatedly molesting two children and a later Ohio conviction on two counts of pandering sexually oriented materials after authorities found child sexual abuse material on his phones. While on probation for the pandering offense,…
Held: The Sixth Circuit affirmed. It did not decide whether the district court improperly relied on Guidelines commentary allowing unrelated prior abuse to support the pattern enhancement. Although intervening precedent may undermine the circuit’s earlier deference to that commentary, any error was harmless because removing the enhancement would reduce Dodd’s offense level only from 42 to 41 and would leave the…
Background: On December 30, 2014, a pedestrian was crossing a divided, one-way, five-lane road to reach a bus stop when a vehicle struck and killed him. The pedestrian was nearly at the median when he was hit in the fifth lane. The accident report recorded that he was thrown 34 meters and that the vehicle stopped…
Held: The Ankara Regional Court of Appeal rejected the appeal on the merits. It held that the Forensic Medicine Institute’s traffic report was detailed, reasoned, consistent with the accident report, and compatible with the concrete findings in the criminal proceedings. Those proceedings had found the driver secondarily at fault for speeding and had resulted in a final conviction for negligently causing…
Background: Verrol Clarke was convicted after a second jury trial of second-degree assault under Connecticut General Statutes § 53a-60 (a) (1). The first trial ended in a hung jury. The charge arose from a 2020 confrontation in a Stop & Shop bottle-return room, where video showed Clarke punch the 74-year-old victim in the head, then kick…
Held: The Appellate Court affirmed. The surveillance footage, including evidence that Clarke punched and kicked the victim in the head and left him motionless on the floor while continuing to return bottles, permitted the jury to infer specific intent to cause serious physical injury. The evidence also supported the finding of serious physical injury because the victim lost consciousness, which may…
Background: Gela Tchigladze was arrested during the dispersal of a demonstration in Tbilisi on 21 June 2019. His administrative arrest report recorded a scratch, a bruise and scabs. He was later fined for disorderly conduct and disobeying or insulting police officers, although the appellate court reduced the fine.
Held: The Court unanimously held that Georgia violated the procedural limb of Article 3. Because injuries had been recorded at the time of arrest, the authorities had a duty to investigate their origin of their own motion. Instead, meaningful action followed only after the appellate court referred the allegation. The delay contributed to the loss of potentially relevant camera footage, and…
Background: In May 2023, an insolvency commencement order was entered concerning Food Master Management and International Trade Ltd., and attorney Shai Glickman was appointed trustee with authority to manage the company. Lee Rosenthal, whose brother controlled Food Master, controlled Food Lake Import & International Marketing Ltd. and Alcohol Lee Ltd.
Held: Justice Ruth Ronnen denied leave to appeal without requesting a response. The challenged ruling was an interlocutory case-management decision about when the insolvency court would consider the applicants’ threshold arguments. Such decisions may fall within section 1(4) of the Courts Order (Types of Decisions for Which Leave to Appeal Will Not Be Granted), 2009. The Supreme Court noted conflicting precedent…
Background: Attleys Roofing Limited carried out lead-roof work at Horris Hill Preparatory School using an oxyacetylene torch. After the work ended on 27 April 2023, a fire broke out and caused significant damage to the building. Its freeholder and leaseholder threatened claims, and Attleys sought a declaration that its public-liability insurer, QBE UK Limited, must indemnify…
Held: His Honour Judge Pearce decided the preliminary issue for QBE. Clause 6.5.4 imposed an absolute obligation to comply with the precautions specifically listed in the clause. Accordingly, an innocent or negligent failure to take one of those precautions could amount to failure of a condition precedent and prevent indemnity just as a reckless failure could.