Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7409

Boris Berezovsky, a Russian oligarch, has won a libel case at the High Court over allegations he was involved in the poisoning by polonium of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006.

The Supreme Court has ruled that a divorce settlement reached in a Nigerian court would have caused “real hardship” to the wife and ordered that she be awarded a more generous settlement by an English court.

The judicial balancing act required in cases involving competing human rights has created a “fundamental shift” in the way courts “do things”, Mr Justice Eady has said.

R (on the application of Savva) v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea [2010] EWHC 414 (Admin), [2010] All ER (D) 118 (Mar)

Noble v Owens [2010] EWCA Civ 224, [2010] All ER (D) 87 (Mar)

R (on the application of H and another) v A City Council [2010] EWHC 466 (Admin), [2010] All ER (D) 127 (Mar)

Shanahan Engineering Ltd v Unite the Union UKEAT/0411/09/DM, [2010] All ER (D) 108 (Mar)

Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) (No 2) Order 2010 (SI 2010/671)

(Amendment) (No 2) Rules 2010 (SI 2010/734)

Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No 4) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/721)