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Open and Shut Case?

Jason Collins, Partner, and Dennis Dixon, Senior Lawyer, McGrigors LLP, consider why a case which the House of Lords considered to be clear-cut actually found its way to their Lordships in the first place

 
Jason Collins Partner and Dennis Dixon Senior Lawyer McGrigors LLP consider why a case which the House of Lords considered to be clear-cut actually found its way to their Lordships in the first place
 
It is often the case that the Law Lords make the most difficult of cases appear easy. But sometimes they can make them seem too easy. By giving what Lord Hoffmann once described as the 'usual polemic' 1 the answer is treated as so obvious that the reader has little idea of the nature of the original controversy. Inevitably this impoverishes...

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