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UK Supreme Court
Judgment
19 March 2025
Rukhadze and others (Appellants) v Recovery Partners GP Ltd and another (Respondents)
Lord Reed,
Lord Hodge,
Lord Briggs,
Lord Leggatt,
Lord Burrows,
Lady Rose,
Lord Richards
Whether the current test for an account of profits (where a fiduciary has to pay back money earned due to a breach of a duty) should be changed to introduce a requirement that the fiduciary could not have made the same profit in a way that avoided a breach of duty, i.e. to introduce a test that asks: ‘Could the same profit have been made but for the breach of fiduciary duty’?
UK Supreme Court
Hearing
19 March 2025
The Prudential Assurance Company Ltd (Appellant) v Commissioners for His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (Respondent)
Lord Reed,
Lord Hodge,
Lord Lloyd-Jones,
Lord Stephens,
Lady Rose,
Lord Richards,
Lady Simler
Is the effect of section 43 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 that no VAT is chargeable on an intra-group supply of services even where the supplier has left the group by the time consideration for the supply is the subject of a VAT invoice and paid?
UK Supreme Court
Hearing
24 March 2025
R v Perry (Appellant)
Lord Reed,
Lord Hodge,
Lord Lloyd-Jones,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Leggatt
The issues in this appeal can be grouped into three questions: (1)As certified by the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland, is the interpretation of a defence statement provided under Part 1 of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 a question of law for the trial judge? (2)Was the search of the appellant’s property lawful and if not what are the consequences of that unlawfulness? (3)Does the application to the appellant of the sentencing regime provided for by article 15A of the Terorism Act 2002 breach Article 7 of the European Convention of Human Rights?
Linked cases
UKSC/2024/0058 R v Perry (Appellant) No 2
Legal issue
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Hearing
24 March 2025
Keith Rolle and another (Respondents) v Raymond Meadows (Appellant)
Lord Sales,
Lord Stephens,
Lord Richards,
Lady Simler,
Dame Janice Pereira
Is the Appellant entitled to an order for possession of the disputed land on the basis that the Respondents are trespassers who have not acquired a possessory title by adverse possession?
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Judgment
24 March 2025
Marcia Ayers-Caesar (Respondent) v The Judicial and Legal Service Commission (Appellant) (Trinidad and Tobago)
Lord Reed,
Lord Hodge,
Lord Stephens,
Lady Rose,
Lady Simler
Did the Judicial and Legal Services Commission act in breach of section 137 of the Constitution in procuring the Appellant’s resignation as a High Court Judge?