The UK Supreme Court records the short presentations made by its justices explaining the court's decisions. These are usually 5 to 7 minutes long, with no transcript, but very clear, with more information available if you click on "show more". Recent cases have involved
- human rights - whether the living arrangements made for a mentally incapacitated person amount to a deprivation of liberty
- private international law/Rome II Treaty - how English courts should deal with the assessment of damages in claims arising out of fatal accidents abroad
- workers' rights - whether a solicitor who is a partner in an LLP (limited liability partnership) can be considered to be a "worker" and so protected as a whistle-blower
- property - whether the use of a recreational ground was "by right" or "as of right"
- evidence - the proper use of linguistic experts in asylum claims
- international family law - grandparents' rights of custody and the The Hague Convention on International Child Abduction.
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