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- C G Fry & Son Limited (Appellant) v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (formerly known as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) and another (Respondents)
UK Supreme Court
Hearing
17 February 2025
Lord Reed,
Lord Sales,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Stephens,
Lady Simler
Does Regulation 63 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (“the Habitats Regulations”) require an ‘appropriate assessment’ to be undertaken for subsequent approvals after the grant of outline planning permission at a further consent stage (i.e. at the approval of reserved matters and discharge of conditions stages)?
- THG Plc (Respondent) v Zedra Trust Company (Jersey) Ltd (Appellant)
UK Supreme Court
Hearing
17 February 2025
Lord Hodge,
Lord Lloyd-Jones,
Lord Briggs,
Lord Burrows,
Lord Richards
Is there a statutory limitation period applicable to a claim under section 994 of the Companies Act 2006? If so, what is that period?
- Water and Sewerage Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (Respondent) v Waterworks Ltd (Appellant) (Trinidad and Tobago)
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Judgment
18 February 2025
Lord Lloyd-Jones,
Lord Sales,
Lord Leggatt,
Lord Burrows,
Lady Rose
The case concerns the interpretation of a clause in two design and construction contracts entitling a contractor to obtain reimbursement for reasonable expenses incurred prior to termination. The issue is whether charges incurred by the appellant, due to the cancellation of purchase orders for the supply of equipment made with a third party, were 'a cost or liability which in the circumstances was reasonably incurred in the expectation of completing works'?
- Nasir (Appellant) v Zavarco Plc (Respondent)
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
19 February 2025
Lord Hodge,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Leggatt,
Lord Stephens,
Lady Rose
Was the Court of Appeal wrong: (i) when it determined that the doctrine of merger did not extinguish Zavarco's cause of action in the 2016 Claim and thereby prevent pursuit of the identical cause of action in the 2018 Claim; (ii) to find that the doctrine of merger does not depend on the cause of action asserted, but instead upon the relief obtained; (iii) to find that the doctrine of merger does not apply to any judgment granting a declaration.
- El-Husseiny and another (Appellants) v Invest Bank PSC (Respondent)
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
19 February 2025
Lord Hodge,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Stephens,
Lady Rose,
Lord Richards
Did the Court of Appeal correctly interpret section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 by determining that: (1) a person can 'enter into' a transaction where they act on behalf of a company; and (2) there can be a 'transaction' for the purposes of section 423 where the asset which is alleged to have been disposed of at an undervalue was not beneficially owned by the 'debtor'?
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