ICLR Case Reports and Summaries - last 30 days ICLR Case Reports and Summaries ingested within the last 30 days. https://www.iclr.co.uk/documents/latest/days/30/rss?series=WLRD Fri, 29 Mar 2024 14:03:42 GMT Fri, 29 Mar 2024 14:03:42 GMT 60 Al-Aggad v Al-Aggad — [2024] WLR(D) 141 CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction — Appropriate forum — Defendants challenging High Court’s jurisdiction on forum non conveniens grounds — Claimant contending circumstances preventing her in practice from accessing foreign forum or obtaining substantial justice in forum — Standard of proof applicable to allegation that forum not practically accessible — Extent to which court to scrutinise allegation claimant unable to obtain substantial justice in forum — Whether in service out cases court entitled to consider developments occurring after date when permission to serve out granted — CPR r 61(1) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001897/casereport_f7fc61ff-00dd-408e-bf21-e01332102419/html [2024] WLR(D) 141 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:04:04 GMT Civil litigation Kapoor v Johal — [2024] WLR(D) 140 COSTS — Order for costs — Discretion of court — Appeal against striking out of claim in County Court — Brother of deceased claimant subsequently representing her estate — Two successive orders made by court with effect that appeal struck out in absence of timely application by representative to continue appeal — Orders silent as to costs but judge subsequently awarding defendant’s costs of appeal against claimant’s estate — Whether judge erring in law — Whether having power to award costs where prior orders silent on that matter — CPR r 44.10 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001846/casereport_db3dd17b-06e0-45f4-a441-517ee564052e/html [2024] WLR(D) 140 Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:41:40 GMT Civil litigation Gutmann v Apple Inc — [2024] WLR(D) 129 COMPETITION — Competition Appeal Tribunal — Collective proceedings order — Funding agreement contemplating payment to funder from award of damages — Whether class representative entitled to enter into agreement — Tribunal having power to order funder’s fee to be paid from damages — Competition Act 1998 (c 41), s 47C — Competition Appeal Tribunal Rules 2015 (SI 2015/1648), r 78 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001605/casereport_2024001605_86e45d6d-9915-4d4d-92f9-0318fec92d5e/html [2024] WLR(D) 129 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:41:33 GMT Civil litigation Border Timbers Ltd v Republic of Zimbabwe — [2024] WLR(D) 122 ARBITRATION — Award — Enforcement — Investor obtaining ICSID Convention award against foreign state — Judge granting permission to register award as judgment of High Court — State applying to set aside registration order on ground of state immunity — Whether ICSID Convention operating as general waiver of immunity — Whether state submitted to jurisdiction of UK courts and/or agreed to ICSID arbitration for purposes of exceptions to immunity — Whether immunity engaged at registration stage — Arbitration (International Investment Disputes) Act 1966 (c 41), s 2, Sch, art 54 — State Immunity Act 1978 (c 33), ss 2, 9 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024000352/casereport_fde450b4-9517-45da-8605-a27a50e51679/html [2024] WLR(D) 122 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:41:50 GMT Civil litigation Czech Republic v Diag Human SE — [2024] WLR(D) 123 ARBITRATION — Award — Challenge to award — Claim brought in arbitration under bilateral investment treaty conducted under certain UNCITRAL rules as chosen by parties — State challenging resultant award on grounds of lack of jurisdiction and serious irregularity — Defendants contending state having lost right to object — Defendants further arguing that challenge barred because alternative recourse for correction of award under Act or UNCITRAL rules not exhausted — When right to object lost — Whether statutory provision regarding correction of award applicable alongside parties’ chosen arbitration rules — Whether provision in UNCITRAL rules requiring request for interpretation of award applicable — Arbitration Act 1996 (c 23), ss 57, 67, 68, 70 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001516/casereport_acde3c45-71c1-4d8c-b2dd-c4caf6553fab/html [2024] WLR(D) 123 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:41:49 GMT Civil litigation Chedington Events Ltd v Brake — [2024] WLR(D) 88 EXECUTION — Third party debt proceedings — Final order — Whether interest payable by third party on sum to be paid under order — Senior Courts Act 1981 (c 54), s 35A — CPR r 72.2 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001169/casereport_d65660c5-8ada-4ea1-88c3-ba409c77c20f/html [2024] WLR(D) 88 Fri, 1 Mar 2024 00:37:35 GMT Civil litigation Deutsche Bank AG v Sebastian Holdings Inc — [2024] WLR(D) 121 LIMITATION OF ACTION — Judgment debt — Interest — Claim to recover arrears of interest in respect of order for costs subject to detailed assessment — Detailed assessment occurring more than six years after costs order made — Whether claim time-barred — Whether interest first becoming “due” on making of costs order or following detailed assessment — Whether “due” meaning “owing” or “payable” — Judgments Act 1838 (1 & 2 Vict c 110), s 17 — Limitation Act 1980 (c 58), s 24(2) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023004122/casereport_f00ff582-2e13-4962-9c40-2a383fc06888/html [2024] WLR(D) 121 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:41:45 GMT Civil litigation Privinvest Shipbuilding SAL (Holding) v Nyusi — [2024] WLR(D) 101 PRACTICE — Service — Service out of jurisdiction — Part 20 claimants obtaining permission to serve proceedings out of jurisdiction on President of foreign state — Claim form served at security checkpoint at presidential palace and security desk at president’s office — Claim form also served via state’s judicial authorities over one year later — President obtaining declaration of ineffectiveness of earlier service — Whether Part 20 claimants obliged to carry out “service direct” or service via Mozambique judicial authorities — Whether earlier service valid — CPR rr 6.40(3)(4), 6.42(3), PD 6B, para 5.1 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023005343/casereport_02a6608b-3ee1-4038-ac37-f58d65653ed1/html [2024] WLR(D) 101 Sat, 9 Mar 2024 08:37:30 GMT Civil litigation Bayerische Motoren Werke AG v Competition and Markets Authority — [2024] WLR(D) 133 COMPETITION — Investigatory powers — Documents and information — Competition and Markets Authority serving notices pursuant to power to require “any undertaking” to produce documents and information relevant to cartel investigation — Entities comprising undertaking served including those registered and based abroad — Whether power to require production of documents and information having extraterritorial effect — Whether power limited to natural or legal person with proper connection to United Kingdom — Whether entity only required to produce documents and information in its possession or under its legal control — Competition Act 1998 (c 41), ss 2, 25, 26, 59 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023001866/casereport_6947ac88-64ad-42c6-9cb9-73523d093ca0/html [2024] WLR(D) 133 Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:30:30 GMT Commercial Kumar v LSC Finance Ltd — [2024] WLR(D) 131 FINANCIAL SERVICES — Regulated activities — Loan agreements — Borrowers entering into loan agreement with unregulated lender for purchase and development of real property — Borrowers’ obligations secured by mortgages on land — Whether loan agreements amounting to regulated mortgage contracts — Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 ( c 8), s 26 — Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001 (SI 2001/544), art 61 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023004324/casereport_57afa52c-f424-4abf-bdb9-09919c884176/html [2024] WLR(D) 131 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:41:34 GMT Commercial Dalston Projects Ltd v Secretary of State for Transport — [2024] WLR(D) 113 HUMAN RIGHTS — Breach of Convention rights — Proportionality — Luxury yacht beneficially owned by claimants detained under sanctions regulations — Whether detention proportionate interference with claimants’ right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions — Whether detention lawful — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt II, art 1 — Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (c 13), s 1 — Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (SI 2019/855), reg 57D https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023004641/casereport_943d10a2-de0b-4d63-99e9-20c81741d32e/html [2024] WLR(D) 113 Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:41:30 GMT Commercial Ayhan Sezer Yag Ve Gida Endustrisi Ticaret Ltd Sirket v Agroinvest SA — [2024] WLR(D) 103 CONTRACT — Breach — Repudiatory breach — Parties entering into contract for sale and purchase of rape meal and soybean meal — Buyer informing seller of intention to repudiate contract — Buyer liable under contract to pay damages based on price difference at “date of default” — Whether date of default occurring when buyer informing seller of intention of breach or when seller accepting breach or last date for performance of contract — Whether advance payment paid to seller refundable — GAFTA 100, clause 23 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001430/casereport_6568ea09-138b-48d0-8482-7f93acd20e66/html [2024] WLR(D) 103 Sat, 9 Mar 2024 08:37:31 GMT Commercial Brendon International Ltd v Water Plus Ltd — [2024] WLR(D) 108 WATER — Sewerage — Right to charge — Claimant paying sums charged by defendants for surface water and highway drainage services — Claimant subsequently claiming repayment of such sums on ground defendants having no entitlement to charge for services — Whether sewer into which drainage occurring private or public — Whether claimant or defendant bearing burden as to status of sewer — Water Industry Act 1991 (c 56), s 219(1) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2022021609/casereport_54e75d65-5fc9-47fe-853a-8118f096a541/html [2024] WLR(D) 108 Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:37:29 GMT Trusts and Chancery ABC Projektai UAB (formerly Bruc Bond UAB) v Lietuvos bankas — [2024] WLR(D) 98 FINANCIAL SERVICES — Payment services — Payment institution authorised to provide services — Lithuanian payment institution receiving and retaining customers’ funds without accompanying payment orders — Lithuanian bank revoking payment institution’s licence on ground that its practice constituting issuance of “electronic money” for which it was not authorised — Whether practice constituting “payment services” or issuance of “electronic money” — Parliament and Council Directive 2009/110/EC, art 2(2) — Parliament and Council Directive (EU) 2015/2366, art 4(3) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001208/casereport_86723933-c9e2-4ecf-bf9b-4bc13c9797b3/html [2024] WLR(D) 98 Thu, 7 Mar 2024 06:37:33 GMT Commercial Hadley v Przybylo — [2024] WLR(D) 137 COSTS — Costs management — Costs budget — Personal injury claim — Claimant including fee earner’s attendance at rehabilitation case management meetings as future costs — Whether such costs recoverable in principle — Correct test to be applied https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023003997/casereport_abb5672f-279a-4031-89d3-f6cc3b72b5a1/html [2024] WLR(D) 137 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 23:41:32 GMT Costs Shepherd & Co Solicitors v Brealey — [2024] WLR(D) 146 SOLICITORS — Costs — Assessment — Deceased appointing solicitor as executor and trustee of estate — Whether solicitor entitled to recover fees for work done in capacity as executor — Whether court’s inherent jurisdiction to permit recovery of fees where it would otherwise be inequitable should only be exercised sparingly and in exceptional circumstances — Partnership Act 1890 (c 39), s 5 — Trustee Act 2000 (c 29), ss 28, 29 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2022021568/casereport_734a8108-afd4-4419-bfbe-a4b07616c0a9/html [2024] WLR(D) 146 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 01:27:36 GMT Trusts and Chancery R v Jordan (John) — [2024] WLR(D) 120 CONTEMPT OF COURT — Crown Court — Procedure — Defendant playing loud music outside court building causing interference with jury trial — Judge causing defendant to be arrested and finding defendant in contempt of court — Whether conduct serious enough interference with administration of justice to amount to contempt — Whether judge’s factual conclusions on legally essential issue of intent unsafe — Whether proceedings falling short of minimum standards of fairness — Whether judge’s decision to deal with the matter himself bringing impartiality into question — Whether finding of contempt disproportionately interfering with defendant’s exercise of rights to freedom of expression and assembly — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 10, 11 — Crim PR Pt 48 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001618/casereport_1bf7bf25-211f-44f9-a451-26375307aa3c/html [2024] WLR(D) 120 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:41:48 GMT Crime R (Kim) v Governor of HMP Wandsworth — [2024] WLR(D) 143 CRIME — Detention on remand — Order for release — Claimant pleading guilty to offence and receiving prison sentence but court ordering his release because of time served on remand — Claimant detained in custody pending pre-release checks — Urgent communications by claimant’s solicitors seeking release of claimant ignored — Out of hours judge issuing writ of habeas corpus — Whether continued detention after original order for release unlawful https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001874/casereport_91af9c8b-5b76-4dcc-b570-cddf2117fa71/html [2024] WLR(D) 143 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 01:27:21 GMT Crime Radu v Vaslui Court of Law, Romania — [2024] WLR(D) 139 CRIME — Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) — Practice — Renewed applications for permission to appeal on different grounds from those refused by single judge — Whether requiring an application to reopen an appeal which has already been determined — Crim PR 50.22(2),(3), 50.27 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001781/casereport_aa7798a5-ce93-423c-b43c-79cae7ae3482/html [2024] WLR(D) 139 Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:41:40 GMT Crime R v Abbasi — [2024] WLR(D) 135 CRIME — Sentence — Fraud — Directors disqualification — Undertaking given not to act as company director — Subsequent court order for disqualification as director — Overall disqualification period longer than statutory maximums relating to undertakings and to court orders — Whether court order ultra vires — Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 (c 46), ss 1A, 2 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001892/casereport_3f762909-3197-4bab-a868-366f9d1fc288/html [2024] WLR(D) 135 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:41:31 GMT Crime Ahmet v Tatum — [2024] WLR(D) 134 CRIME — Proceeds of crime — Recovery of assets — Property made subject to restraint order — Whether claim in High Court for determination of interest in property abuse of process — Whether rights in property to be determined by Crown Court — Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c 29), ss 10A, 41, 58(5) and 59(5) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023004323/casereport_7d8f5048-1372-4129-828a-e6d04790e980/html [2024] WLR(D) 134 Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:30:31 GMT Crime Attorney General’s Reference No 1 of 2023 — [2024] WLR(D) 130 CRIME — Criminal damage to property — Defence to charge — Lawful excuse — Damage caused by protesters — Defendant’s belief that consent to damage given or would have been given had person entitled to consent known of destruction or damage and its circumstances — Whether importance of subject matter of the protest part of circumstances — Whether evidence of defendant’s beliefs concerning importance of subject matter of the protest admissible — Criminal Damage Act 1971 (c 48), s 5(2)(a) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001776/casereport_c18f0150-77d7-479c-b69f-944fff1ea526/html [2024] WLR(D) 130 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:41:37 GMT Crime R v BHR — [2024] WLR(D) 109 CRIME — Sentence — Reduction and review — Offenders assisting investigations and prosecutions — Proper approach to reduction in sentence for offenders providing information and assistance to law enforcement authorities post-sentence — Criminal Appeal Act 1968 (c 19), s 11(3) — Sentencing Act 2020 (c 17), s 388 — Crim PR (SI 2020/759) r 28.11 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024000242/casereport_0c9deef4-a23e-404f-a6cc-496e85c8c6e0/html [2024] WLR(D) 109 Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:37:33 GMT Crime R v Lake (Frederick) — [2023] WLR(D) 272 CRIME — Evidence — Audio recording of complainant’s evidence — Proper approach to requests for access to recordings of Crown Court proceedings — Crim PR r 5.5(3)(4) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023003963/casereport_817e48ae-f20d-4f90-a4f3-306ba4162191/html [2023] WLR(D) 272 Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:37:33 GMT Crime Rentokil Initial UK Ltd v Miller — [2024] WLR(D) 128 DISCRIMINATION — Disability — Employment — Duty to make adjustments — Claimant unable to continue in role and unsuccessfully applying for different role — Tribunal finding claimant should have transferred into different role for trial period — Whether trial period amounting to reasonable adjustment — Whether reasonable step for employer to take — Equality Act 2010 (c 15), s 20(3) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001682/casereport_e31ad49e-7c08-4c7c-b401-546d61be4549/html [2024] WLR(D) 128 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:41:38 GMT Employment Melki v Bouygues E and S Contracting UK Ltd — [2024] WLR(D) 117 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS — Employment Appeal Tribunal — Procedure — Claimant omitting respondent’s grounds of resistance from appeal documents sent to appeal tribunal — Claimant rectifying error out of time — Registrar refusing to extend time — Whether subsequently amended rules to be applied on appeal against registrar’s decision — Whether “minor” error — Employment Appeal Tribunal Rules 1993 (SI 1993/2854) (as amended by Employment Appeal Tribunal (Amendment) Rules 2023 (SI 2023/967), r 2), rr 3(1), 37(1)(5) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001652/casereport_50c67c97-56c2-49de-a677-ddc12e3fc92d/html [2024] WLR(D) 117 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 14:41:38 GMT Employment Edwards v Ministry of Defence — [2024] WLR(D) 111 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS — Employment tribunals — Jurisdiction — Member of armed forces filing service complaint — Employment tribunal claim then filed for race discrimination — Application made to add sex discrimination, harassment related to sex and victimisation claims — Tribunal claims concerning same events as service complaint — Service complaint not explicitly referring to discrimination, harassment or victimisation — Tribunal not having jurisdiction unless service complaint first made “about the matter” — Whether service complaint “about the matter” made — Equality Act 2010 (c 15), s 121 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001475/casereport_90dbd4ca-121c-43b7-b2ba-5b2ce075ed36/html [2024] WLR(D) 111 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:37:44 GMT Employment Hilton Foods Solutions Ltd v Wright — [2024] WLR(D) 106 EMPLOYMENT — Time off for dependants — Parental leave — Claimant purportedly made redundant but alleging real reason for dismissal was that “sought” parental leave — Whether necessary for claimant to comply with statutory requirements before conclusion that “sought” parental leave — Whether protected from dismissal — Employment Rights Act 1996 (c 18), s 99 — Maternity and Parental Leave etc Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/3312), reg 20, Sch 2, paras 1(b), 3 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001509/casereport_44d8e84d-df14-4347-bef1-eecc1dab219b/html [2024] WLR(D) 106 Sat, 9 Mar 2024 08:37:32 GMT Employment Donkor-Baah v University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust — [2024] WLR(D) 100 EMPLOYMENT — Contract of employment — Agency worker — Agency nurse sent home during shift — Nine months later claimant told she could re-commence booking shifts — Claimant claiming entitlement to be paid during alleged suspension — Whether assignment terminated when sent home — Whether over-arching agency relationship — Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/93), reg 5 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001334/casereport_12cc5541-8517-4db0-8ce6-b66f45e79839/html [2024] WLR(D) 100 Sat, 9 Mar 2024 08:37:32 GMT Employment Wicked Vision Ltd v Rice — [2024] WLR(D) 102 EMPLOYMENT — Protected disclosure — Unfair dismissal — Claimant alleging automatic unfair dismissal — Judge granting permission to add allegation of detriment by co-worker who was owner of company — Whether amended claim already advanced as claim for automatic unfair dismissal — Whether therefore barred — Employment Rights Act 1996 (c 18), ss 47B, 94, 103A https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001401/casereport_b80dfe28-0acc-4d98-999f-65d7dd621407/html [2024] WLR(D) 102 Sat, 9 Mar 2024 08:37:32 GMT Employment Hall v Transport for London — [2024] WLR(D) 99 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS — Employment tribunals — Procedure — Claimant presenting claim for disability discrimination and protected disclosure detriment relating to events five years earlier — Tribunal granting claimant’s application for adjournment on fifth day of six-day hearing — Tribunal granting claimant three further postponements due to ill health — Whether tribunal entitled to refuse application for further postponement — Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/1237), Sch 1, rr 29, 30(3) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001366/casereport_ee8b2a92-b4ee-4bc4-8cc1-b102137caa22/html [2024] WLR(D) 99 Thu, 7 Mar 2024 06:37:33 GMT Employment Warrington Borough Council v Unite the Union — [2024] WLR(D) 85 TRADE DISPUTE — Act in furtherance of — Procuring breach of contract — Union members voting in ballot in favour of industrial action by local government employees — Union giving notice of strike action to local authority employer — Agreement reached in pay negotiations at national level — Employer applying for interlocutory relief on basis union liable in tort for procuring breach of contract — Whether strike action undertaken in furtherance of ongoing trade dispute — Whether ballot fulfilling statutory requirement to summarise matters in dispute — Whether interim injunction restraining strike action to be granted — Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c 52), ss 219(1), 226, 229(2B), 244(1) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023007087/casereport_410f8a16-0137-4044-8ba4-2bd0de8563c7/html [2024] WLR(D) 85 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 23:37:29 GMT Employment JLOG v Resorts Mallorca Hotels International SL — [2024] WLR(D) 95 EMPLOYMENT — Redundancy — Consultation — Employer contemplating restructuring and agreeing to terminate and transfer some parts of business to another undertaking — Employer encouraging employees to voluntarily terminate employment contracts with it and work for other undertaking — A number of employees voluntarily departing before some of remaining workforce made redundant — When employer obliged to commence consultation procedure for collective redundancies — Council Directive 98/59/EC, arts 1(1)(a), 2(1) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001211/casereport_b734f5d9-adfe-4113-8c20-3f065a4bccd4/html [2024] WLR(D) 95 Wed, 6 Mar 2024 05:37:32 GMT Employment Avon Cosmetics Ltd v Dalriada Trustees Ltd — [2024] WLR(D) 96 PENSIONS — Pension scheme — Amendment — Amendments leading to members either better off or worse off in relation to accrued benefits under plan — Power of amendment subject to fetter preventing amendments prejudicially affecting accrued benefits — Whether amendments effective in relation to members left better off — Proper test for severance https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024000297/casereport_589ba7bc-d959-4475-9fb5-00c85cc6e1b2/html [2024] WLR(D) 96 Wed, 6 Mar 2024 05:37:32 GMT Trusts and Chancery MD v Tez Tour UAB — [2024] WLR(D) 125 EUROPEAN UNION — Consumer protection — Package travel contracts — Traveller terminating contract due to spread of Covid-19 pandemic — Traveller having right under EU Directive to terminate package holiday contract without paying fee where “unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances” at destination — Whether official recommendation or decision advising against travel pre-condition of exercise of right — Scope of relevant circumstances and assessment of consequences — Whether evolving situation constituting “unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances” — Whether consequences affecting performance of contract having to occur at travel destination — Parliament and Council Directive (EU) 2015/2302, art, 12(2) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001496/casereport_ee49a980-22c1-4890-9bb5-ddb17e5d437a/html [2024] WLR(D) 125 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:41:48 GMT European Union QM v Kiwi Tours GmbH — [2024] WLR(D) 124 EUROPEAN UNION — Consumer protection — Package travel contracts — Traveller terminating contract due to spread of Covid-19 pandemic and paying termination fees — National authorities in country of destination adopting entry ban a week before scheduled departure date for holiday — Traveller requesting refund of termination fees from travel organiser — Traveller having right under EU Directive to terminate package holiday contract without paying fee where “unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances” at destination — Whether events arising after date of termination of contract but before scheduled start date of holiday to be taken into account in assessing traveller’s right — Parliament and Council Directive (EU) 2015/2302, art 12(2) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001490/casereport_c37b14ac-384a-410a-8438-cdd82101b982/html [2024] WLR(D) 124 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:41:48 GMT European Union X v Y — [2024] WLR(D) 116 PRACTICE — Case management — Alternative dispute resolution — Pre-hearing review in financial remedy proceedings — Financial dispute resolution meeting having failed to resolve dispute — Parties invited to consider non-court dispute resolution — Approach to be taken by courts in family proceedings to exercise of powers for purpose of encouraging parties to engage in non-court dispute resolution — FPR rr 1.1, 3.3, 3.4 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001631/casereport_c7f2fb3f-401c-43c0-8f3d-68d41adfeb1a/html [2024] WLR(D) 116 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 14:41:35 GMT Family In re T (A Child) — [2024] WLR(D) 127 ADOPTION — Practice — Attendance at hearings — Prospective adopters prevented from attending hearing of their adoption application and denied request for transcript of hearing — Whether power to prevent prospective adopters from attending hearings — Consideration of current working practices — Guidance on engagement with applicants in adoption proceedings — Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c 38), ss 22, 49 — FPR Pt 14 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001685/casereport_27c5ad5c-d28b-48e9-b2e1-db279ab2f4f6/html [2024] WLR(D) 127 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:41:39 GMT Family TRC v NS — [2024] WLR(D) 118 PRACTICE — Family proceedings — Case management — Allegations of domestic abuse made in private law family proceedings — Magistrates’ court making case management decision that no fact-finding hearing necessary — Mother seeking to appeal out of time appeal against decision — Whether extension of time to be granted — Whether principles on relief from sanctions in civil proceedings transferable to family proceedings — Whether fact-finding hearing to be held — Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 1 — FPR 2010 rr 1.1, PD 12J https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024000402/casereport_e805e4a0-5b6c-4312-951a-97447538266b/html [2024] WLR(D) 118 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:41:48 GMT Family West Northamptonshire Council v Mother — [2024] WLR(D) 114 CHILDREN — Care proceedings — Case management — Expert evidence — Mother seeking own psychological assessment to inform court and professionals on potential assistance required to accommodate difficulties with understanding — Whether expert psychological evidence “necessary” to assist court to resolve proceedings — Whether appropriate expert to be instructed — Consideration of when such applications appropriate — FPR r 25 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001239/casereport_0713640d-b42d-4ec0-ab12-2222db8fc88c/html [2024] WLR(D) 114 Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:41:34 GMT Family Tousi v Gaydukova — [2024] WLR(D) 107 MARRIAGE — Validity — Void marriage — Parties undergoing marriage ceremony in Ukraine without complying with formal requirements of Ukrainian law — Parties subsequently occupying property together in England — Woman seeking transfer of joint tenancy into sole name on separation — Whether parties “spouses” or “cohabitants” for purposes of statute — Whether foreign law governing ramifications of invalidity of marriage ceremony — Family Law Act 1996 (c 27), ss 53, 62(1), Sch 7, paras 2, 3, 12 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023001316/casereport_72b010fa-48a6-4b41-ada5-b93790f9a4c7/html [2024] WLR(D) 107 Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:37:28 GMT Family Lifestyle Equities CV v Amazon UK Services Ltd — [2024] WLR(D) 105 TRADE MARK — Infringement — Use — Right holder registering UK and EU trade marks for branded goods — Advertisements and offers for sale of identical US-branded goods bearing identical marks accessible to consumers in UK and EU via defendants’ US e-commerce website — Whether advertisements and offers for sale targeted at average UK consumers — Proper approach to assessment of targeting — Trade Marks Act1994 (c 26), s 10(1) — Parliament and Council Regulation (EU) No 2017/1001, art 9(2)(a) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2021000321/casereport_aa2e602b-0f95-4d53-ab56-1378a0919f5b/html [2024] WLR(D) 105 Sat, 9 Mar 2024 08:37:27 GMT IP and Media Prescott Place Freeholder Ltd v Batin (Nos 1 and 2) — [2024] WLR(D) 145 LANDLORD AND TENANT — Lease — Tenants’ right of first refusal — Landlord disposing of freehold to purchaser in breach of statutory duty to give tenants first refusal — Tenants obtaining order requiring purchaser to dispose of freehold to their nominee — Purchaser subsequently granting unregistered equitable leases to third party — Concurrent proceedings in County Court and First-tier Tribunal — Whether “relevant disposal” of property — Whether abuse of process to argue purchaser holding freehold on trust for beneficiary when beneficiary not joined as party to County Court and tribunal proceedings — Whether order creating immediate equitable interest in land — Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 (c 31), ss 4(2)(g), 12B(2)(5), 19(1) — Land Registration Act 2002 (c 9), s 28 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023001600/casereport_a0ae4e7a-c1cf-405d-8595-4a09e927fde6/html [2024] WLR(D) 145 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 01:27:34 GMT Land law Nazir v Dilshad Begum — [2024] WLR(D) 97 LAND REGISTRATION — Registration — Adverse possession — Registered owner of land dying intestate — Claimants subsequently obtaining letters of administration and themselves becoming registered owners of land — Whether claim for possession of land barred by reason of ten-year period of adverse possession by defendant — Whether property held on trust from date of grant of letters of administration so as to preclude adverse possession — Administration of Estates Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo 5, c 23), s 33 — Land Registration Act 2002 (c 9), s 98(1), Sch 6, para 12 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001127/casereport_7c8f6c84-b8b9-4500-b2ef-1427aa67459f/html [2024] WLR(D) 97 Thu, 7 Mar 2024 06:37:33 GMT Land law Eveline Road RTM Co Ltd v Assethold Ltd — [2024] WLR(D) 94 LANDLORD AND TENANT — Right to manage — Premises — Property consisting of two terraced houses converted into flats — Company’s application for right to manage property — Terrace within definition of “premises” as self contained building — Property also within definition as self contained part of that building — Flats in property self contained parts of same building — Whether company acquiring right to manage property as a whole — Whether two companies to be formed and separate claims made in respect of each original terraced house — Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 ( c 15) s 72 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023000756/casereport_357af141-0973-4705-8872-0cf37720e9f5/html [2024] WLR(D) 94 Tue, 5 Mar 2024 04:37:31 GMT Land law R (DXK) v Secretary of State for the Home Department — [2024] WLR(D) 144 IMMIGRATION — Failed asylum seeker — Provision of accommodation — Secretary of State accepting statutory duty to provide accommodation for pregnant failed asylum seeker — Secretary of State failing to put in place adequate monitoring system for allocation of accommodation to vulnerable people — Whether ongoing breach of public section equality duty — Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c 33), ss 4(2), 95, 98 — Equality Act 2010 (c 15), s 149 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001711/casereport_53e61aba-43d3-4efe-ad16-7dee6192defd/html [2024] WLR(D) 144 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 01:27:49 GMT Public law R (Suffolk Energy Action Solutions SPV Ltd) v Secretary of State for Energy Security — [2024] WLR(D) 138 PLANNING — Development — Planning permission — Secretary of State making development consent orders for offshore windfarms and associated onshore development — Orders authorising compulsory purchase of land from landowners — Applicants negotiating non-objection clauses with landowners — Whether non-objection clauses precluding or stifling objections to proposed development — Whether non-objection clauses legal — Planning Act 2008 ( c 29), ss 104, 114 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023004478/casereport_7fa3082b-bc52-4098-9574-30bcc27d0ca0/html [2024] WLR(D) 138 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 23:41:30 GMT Public law R (LND1) v Secretary of State for the Home Department — [2024] WLR(D) 136 IMMIGRATION — Leave to enter — Application — Claimant Afghan public official applying to relocate with family to United Kingdom on basis of assistance given to UK authorities in Afghanistan — Scheme for relocation of eligible Afghan nationals requiring applicant to have worked “alongside a UK government department, in partnership with or closely supporting and assisting that department” and to have made “substantive and positive contribution during their employment or work or provision of services towards achieving the UK government’s military objectives or its national security objectives” — Secretary of State refusing application on basis claimant not demonstrating having worked alongside UK government department — Judge allowing claim for judicial review on basis that claimant meeting necessary conditions for eligibility — Whether relevant conditions to be considered as separate requirements — Whether eligibility decision to be quashed and remitted for reconsideration — Immigration Rules, Appendix ARAP, para 3.6 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023004480/casereport_b5cc6511-7d2a-42f1-b693-5e0543b0d65a/html [2024] WLR(D) 136 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:41:30 GMT Public law R (Police and Crime Commissioner for the West Midlands) v Secretary of State for the Home Department — [2024] WLR(D) 132 LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Combined authority — Policing — Secretary of State making order transferring commissioner’s powers to mayor of combined authority — Whether consultation document containing sufficient information to permit public fair opportunity to participate — Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (c 20), ss 107F, 113 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001780/casereport_8453bd7a-80a1-4de5-99b6-5e6fa8133edf/html [2024] WLR(D) 132 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:41:38 GMT Public law R (Roehrig) v Secretary of State for the Home Department — [2024] WLR(D) 126 NATIONALITY — British citizenship — Acquisition — Claimant born in United Kingdom to European Union citizen resident in United Kingdom as worker — Whether claimant automatically acquiring British citizenship on birth — Whether claimant’s mother “settled” in United Kingdom at time of birth — Whether mother subject under “immigration laws” to restriction on period for which she could remain in United Kingdom — British Nationality Act 1981 (c 61), ss 1(1)(b), 50 — Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/2326), reg 14 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023000461/casereport_fe5bfde1-5d6c-4668-88f2-8077a7539126/html [2024] WLR(D) 126 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:41:44 GMT Public law Gurvits v Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities — [2024] WLR(D) 119 PLANNING — Enforcement notice — Validity — Outbuilding built in three sections across rear gardens of three residential properties — Enforcement notice requiring cessation of use of outbuilding as office and permanent removal of kitchen facilities and toilets — Planning inspector on appeal amending notice to add further requirement to permanently remove internal doors and seal up existing openings linking three component buildings — Whether addition of further requirement unlawful — Whether interfering with lawful use of each component of outbuilding for purposes incidental to enjoyment of associated dwelling house — Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8), s 55(2) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001479/casereport_5f984f98-646c-4678-b0c1-d6280411fb05/html [2024] WLR(D) 119 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:41:50 GMT Public law R (Bhat) v NHS Litigation Authority — [2024] WLR(D) 115 PARTNERSHIP — Dissolution — Whether partnership existing — Partners in firm practising pursuant to standard NHS England general medical services contract — Notice of dissolution of partnership served by claimant equity partners on salaried non-clinical partner — Whether notice resulting in general or technical dissolution of partnership — Whether contract subsisting — Whether implied contractual requirement that change in composition of partnership be with agreement of all partners — Partnership Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict c 39), ss 26(1), 32(c) — National Health Service Act 2006 (c 41), s 9 — National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/1862), reg 15 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001125/casereport_75421e35-d460-476d-b7d7-6966873670a5/html [2024] WLR(D) 115 Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:41:32 GMT Public law R (AXO) v First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber) — [2024] WLR(D) 112 CRIME — Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority — Compensation, whether repayable — Claimant awarded compensation by CICA when mother murdered — Claimant bringing civil proceedings against state agencies for breach of Convention rights to life and protection from inhuman and degrading treatment — Parties settling claims with award of damages — CICA seeking to recover part of compensation paid from award “in respect of the same injury” — Whether right to deduct limited to situations of double recovery — Proper approach to determining whether double recovery between CICA compensation and award under Convention — Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2008, para 49(1) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2022013883/casereport_6187a3ed-8a15-4e51-b019-51d704554706/html [2024] WLR(D) 112 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:37:41 GMT Public law Swindon Borough Council v Abrook — [2024] WLR(D) 110 INJUNCTION — Anti-social behaviour — Begging — Local authority obtaining anti-social behaviour injunction against beggar — Meaning of anti-social behaviour — Whether difference between passive and aggressive begging — Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c 12), s 2 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001542/casereport_f20c0cea-bacf-4850-a674-7a1e9780869f/html [2024] WLR(D) 110 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:41:38 GMT Public law Ullah v Secretary of State for the Home Department — [2024] WLR(D) 104 NATIONALITY — British citizenship — Deprivation — Dishonesty — Bangladeshi claimant having acquired British citizenship — Claimant deprived of British citizenship by Secretary of State on basis of dishonesty — Proper approach to question of dishonesty — Whether dishonesty established — Effect of failure to cross-examine claimant on issue of dishonesty — British Nationality Act 1981 (c 61), s 40(3) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001463/casereport_14f4fbc3-b25f-4378-b193-08f9b9b148d2/html [2024] WLR(D) 104 Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:50:58 GMT Public law Miah v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions — [2024] WLR(D) 91 SOCIAL SECURITY — Universal credit — Backdating — Parents of disabled adult applying for universal credit — Parents seeking backdating by one month to cover date when child tax credit ceased — Secretary of State refusing to backdate as original claim determined — Whether request for backdating to be treated as revision of determined claim — Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c 5) s 1(1) — Social Security Act 1998 (c 14) ss 8,9 — Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/380), reg 26(2) https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2022010352/casereport_ccc48a88-1291-4b42-ba4d-52076e99f09c/html [2024] WLR(D) 91 Tue, 5 Mar 2024 04:37:30 GMT Public law Mead Realisations Ltd v Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities — [2024] WLR(D) 90 PLANNING — Development — Flood risk area — Inspector refusing permission for residential development — Whether inspector erring in application of sequential test in relation to flood risk — Whether Planning Practice Guidance having same legal status as national policy — Whether inspector bound by Planning Practice Guidance — National Planning Policy Framework (2021), para 162 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024000944/casereport_d0a6eb2d-e7ca-4792-bf87-9197f519ad59/html [2024] WLR(D) 90 Sat, 2 Mar 2024 01:37:30 GMT Public law R (Coal Action Network) v Welsh Ministers — [2024] WLR(D) 92 MINES — Coal — Operating licence — Coal Authority granting licence authorising coal-mining operations in Wales — Licence providing that authorisation postponed until certain conditions met — Mine operator subsequently applying for licence to be deconditionalised — Whether approval of Welsh Ministers required — Whether approval only required where licence granted after statutory approval requirement coming into force — Whether authorisation a separate legal instrument from licence — Coal Industry Act 1994 (c 21), s 26A https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023003195/casereport_388e648a-e68a-4074-9910-88f91604e410/html [2024] WLR(D) 92 Sat, 2 Mar 2024 01:37:27 GMT Public law Johnson (Audi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department — [2024] WLR(D) 93 IMMIGRATION — Deportation — Foreign criminal — Deportation order against non-British citizen as “foreign criminal” — Whether Secretary of State having power to make such order against stateless person — Whether “foreign criminal” capable of including stateless person — UK Borders Act 2007 (c 30), s 32 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2022021375/casereport_aa5758ac-86b0-43e5-8e93-fa2ca12db385/html [2024] WLR(D) 93 Sat, 2 Mar 2024 01:37:28 GMT Public law Begum v Secretary of State for the Home Department — [2024] WLR(D) 86 NATIONALITY — British nationality — Deprivation — Secretary of State depriving claimant of British citizenship on national security grounds — Claimant appealing to Special Immigration Appeals Commission — Commission dismissing appeal — Whether claimant entitled to restoration of British citizenship on grounds of being trafficked, or other grounds — British Nationality Act 1981 (c 61), s 40 — Equality Act 2010 (c 15), s 192 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023001339/casereport_8747fca2-2071-48e1-87c0-1854a06ecdd9/html [2024] WLR(D) 86 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 23:37:29 GMT Public law R (Rights Community Action Ltd) v Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities — [2024] WLR(D) 81 PLANNING — Development — Development plan document — Local planning authority submitting draft local plan strategy for independent examination containing net zero policies exceeding building regulation requirements — Inspectors recommending main modification diluting net zero policies on basis policies not consistent with national policy set out in written ministerial statement — Whether inspectors’ recommendation constituting justiciable decision — Whether claimant having sufficient interest to bring claim — Whether inspectors erring in law — Senior Courts Act 1981 (c 54), s 31(3) — Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c 5) (c 29), ss 20, 23 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2024001092/casereport_e918421c-66dc-4e90-a9c6-2c8e58548e56/html [2024] WLR(D) 81 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 23:37:30 GMT Public law Prudential Assurance Co Ltd v Revenue and Customs Comrs — [2024] WLR(D) 142 REVENUE — Value added tax — Supply of goods and services — Group company providing investment services to taxpayer in return for fee — Fee for provision of services becoming due after provider leaving taxpayer’s VAT group — Whether supply made at point service rendered or point fees paid for VAT purposes — Value Added Tax Act 1994 (c 23), ss 5, 6, 43(1) — Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 (SI 1995/2518), reg 90 https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023001731/casereport_aa95278d-edb5-499a-984a-fd92c7653b7e/html [2024] WLR(D) 142 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 01:27:20 GMT Tax Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust v Revenue and Customs Comrs — [2024] WLR(D) 87 REVENUE — Value added tax — Exemptions — Bodies governed by public law — Treatment as non-taxable persons for activities engaged in as public authorities — Charges levied for car parking at sites operated by NHS Trust — Whether NHS Trust to be treated as non-taxable person for activities engaged in as public authority — Whether NHS Trust supplying car parking under special legal regime — Whether failure to treat NHS Trust as taxable person leading to significant distortions in competition — Council Directive 2006/112/EC, art 13(1) — Value Added Tax Act 1994 (c 23), s 41A https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2022013862/casereport_2022013862_56804e02-7340-4ff8-9038-52f8dd87ac06/html [2024] WLR(D) 87 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 23:37:30 GMT Tax Rea v Rea — [2024] WLR(D) 89 WILL — Validity — Undue influence — Testator making new will leaving majority of estate to daughter — Previous will providing equally for her four children — Daughter living with mother and acting as sole carer at time later will made — Judge making finding of undue influence — Whether judge erring in application of principle — Whether coercion most probable possibility https://www.iclr.co.uk/document/2023004878/casereport_cab32708-b308-48de-9091-bd741c15995d/html [2024] WLR(D) 89 Fri, 1 Mar 2024 00:37:32 GMT Trusts and Chancery