egos^Æ cases index

This index does not include IR35 and employment status cases

This page is intended to be a resource of recent cases, other than those relating to IR35 and employment status.  It lists the known reported cases in date order, with links to a summary of each case, which in turn may itself link to the full text of the decision.

Case name, year;  Court	What the case was about, and the end result	Particular issues raised	Notes
ASTRON CLINICA ChD (2008)	Patenting software	If a method patent can properly be granted for a method of doing something by software, then the software itself can also be patented
Autonomy ChD 2008	Patenting software		Illustrates where software is NOT patentable.

 

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The Court hierarchy

Simplistically put, courts are (a) bound by decisions of higher courts, (b) influenced by decisions of courts at the same level, and (c) at liberty to override courts of a lower level.

The following may be regarded as the order of priority (and the abbreviations used for them in the above table), starting with the highest and descending to the lowest:

1               House of Lords (HL)

2               Court of Appeal (CA)

3               Divisional Court (DC)

4               High Court (HC);  Chancery Division (ChD);  Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT)

5               Special Commissioner (SC)

 

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