> Tony Bowden on Friday, January 16, 2004 at 5:01 PM said:-
> Unfortunately the Court of Appeal isn't really allowed to
> change its mind; its past decisions are binding on itself.
> This decision would now have to be overturned by the House of Lords.
What would happen if the Court of Appeal made a decision which was not
compliant with the Human Rights Act?
Ian W
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> Tony Bowden
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> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:22:09PM -0000, Hubert, Paul [STU] wrote:
> > An alternative view is that the Court of Appeal lost the
> plot and if
> > Durant isn't appealed another case will need to go to the
> CA so it can
> > find a nice way of changing its mind.
>
> Unfortunately the Court of Appeal isn't really allowed to
> change its mind; its past decisions are binding on itself.
> This decision would now have to be overturned by the House of Lords.
>
> That means the case would need to be taken by someone with
> really deep pockets, and as these cases almost always, by
> definition, come down to lone individual vs large
> organisation, I'm skeptical of that happening, unless a
> privacy group or the like decides to fund a test case.
>
> Tony
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