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Immigration

NRJA v The Secretary of State for the Home Department

The tribunal allowed this Sri Lankan asylum appeal after accepting new medical and country evidence showed a real risk on return and that monitoring could be persecutory.

  • Refugee-convention-risk-on-return
  • Credibility-assessment
  • Medical-evidence
  • Article-3-echr
  • Article-8-echr
  • Devaseelan-principle
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Civil-procedure

Michael Fred Hanson v Michael Oliver Hanson

The High Court refused the defendant’s renewed application to adjourn a commercial trial, finding the medical evidence inadequate and no sufficient basis to delay trial.

  • Adjournment-of-trial
  • Medical-evidence
  • Relief-from-sanctions
  • Litigants-in-person
  • Civil-procedure
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Family-law

P (Fabricated and Induced Illness: Fact-Finding), Re

Fact-finding judgment in care proceedings involving alleged fabricated and induced illness, medicalisation, feeding restriction, and threshold findings for two children.

  • Fabricated-and-induced-illness
  • Significant-harm-threshold
  • Medical-evidence-in-child-protection
  • Parental-responsibility
  • Care-orders
  • Child-protection
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Tort [2026] EWHC 750 (KB)

McNally v Gentoo Group Ltd (Rev1)

McNally v Gentoo Group Ltd (Rev1) [2026] EWHC 750 (KB) (31 March 2026)

A High Court judge held that the claimant proved mesothelioma on the balance of probabilities after weighing conflicting pathology, molecular testing, and radiology.

  • Causation
  • Mesothelioma
  • Asbestos-exposure
  • Medical-evidence
  • Expert-evidence
  • Personal-injury
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Social-security-law

SK v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

The Upper Tribunal allowed a PIP appeal, finding errors of law in the First-tier Tribunal’s reasoning and remaking the award for a limited period.

  • Personal-independence-payment
  • Tribunal-procedure
  • Error-of-law
  • Disability-benefits
  • Social-security-law
  • Medical-evidence
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Tort-law [2025] EWCC 57

Haley v Newcold Ltd

Haley v Newcold Ltd [2025] EWCC 57 (20 October 2025)

The court held that the claimant’s elective below-knee amputation was not caused by the workplace accident, finding the chain of causation had been broken.

  • Causation
  • Novus-actus-interveniens
  • Employer's-liability
  • Damages
  • Medical-evidence
  • Personal-injury
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Public-law [2025] EWHC 3448 (Admin)

Dooley, R (On the Application Of) v Westminster Magistrates Court & Anor

Dooley, R (On the Application Of) v Westminster Magistrates Court & Anor [2025] EWHC 3448 (Admin) (14 October 2025)

Judicial review succeeded where an extradition judge relied on post-hearing medical records to make adverse findings without giving the claimant a chance to respond.

  • Procedural-fairness
  • Judicial-review
  • Extradition
  • Article-8-echr
  • Medical-evidence
  • Right-to-fair-hearing
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Civil-procedure [2025] EWHC 3649 (Comm)

Hanson v Hanson

Hanson v Hanson [2025] EWHC 3649 (Comm) (09 October 2025)

The court refused a last-minute adjournment request based on illness and lack of representation, holding the medical evidence was inadequate and the defendant had not served witness evidence.

  • Adjournment-of-trial
  • Medical-evidence-for-adjournment
  • Relief-from-sanctions
  • Litigants-in-person
  • Compliance-with-case-management-orders
  • Medical-evidence
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