The Court of Appeal (Civil Division) – Live streaming of court hearings

How and why are court cases being streamed online?

Most cases from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) are live-streamed on the judiciary’s YouTube channel.
Live-streaming of selected cases began in 2019 to improve public access to, and understanding of, the work of the courts. We are working towards making it possible for all appropriate cases to be live streamed.

The Court of Appeal (Civil Division) is currently operating a pilot scheme to allow access to the parties’ skeleton arguments, on a limited number of selected case that are being live streamed.  Please note that the only documents available are those attached on this page. Although you are welcome to view these documents, the re-use, re-editing or redistribution of these documents is not permitted.  You should be aware that any such use could attract liability for breach of copyright or defamation. Authorisation to reproduce material from these documents must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.

View previous cases on the Court of Appeal video archive page.

Tuesday 13 – Thursday 15 May 2025

(1) HM Revenue and Customs & anr (defendants/appellants) v BAT Industries PLC & ors (claimants/respondents) (external link)
(2) Franked Investment Income Group Litigation v HM Revenue & Customs & anr (defendants/respondents)

(1) By an Appellant’s Notice filed on 28 March 2024, HMRC appeals the Order, dated 21 March 2024 of Richards J sitting in the Business and Property Courts, Revenue List in which he declared that the Respondent’s claims were issued within the extended limitation period in s32(1)(c) of the Limitation Act 1980.

(2) By an Appellant’s Notice filed on 28 March 2024, the Appellant, FCE Bank plc, appeal the order of Richards J sitting in the Business and Property Courts, Revenue List in which he struck out the Applicant’s claim on the basis that it was time barred, having been issued outside the limitation period as extended by s32(1)(c) of the Limitation Act 1980.

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Valuation Office Agency – Dawn Bunyan (VO) (appellant) v Fridays Limited (respondent) (external link)

By Appellant’s Notice filed on 23 July 2024 the Appellant (Respondent below) Dawn Bunyan (Valuation Officer), appeals the decision of the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber), judgment being delivered on 31 May 2024.

This is an appeal concerning agricultural exemption for the purposes of business rates.

Fridays Limited (“Fridays”) appealed to the Upper Tribunal a decision by the Valuation Tribunal for England, where their challenge to the entry of three buildings at Chequer Tree Farm in the 2017 non-domestic rating list was dismissed.
Fridays is a major producer of free-range eggs, with significant agricultural operations at Chequer Tree Farm exempt from non-domestic rating.
The issue was whether the three buildings at Chequer Tree Farm should also be exempt from rating as agricultural buildings and whether certain buildings were ‘occupied together with’ agricultural land.
The buildings are used for processing and packaging eggs produced on other farms, with equipment including tractors, trailers, and a combine harvester utilized for farming operations.
The Upper Tribunal allowed Fridays’ appeal, finding that the Egg Packing Centre fell within the statutory exemption that applies to agricultural buildings in paragraph 3 of Schedule 5 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (“LGFA 1988”).

Wednesday 14 – Friday 16 May 2025

Fertre (appellant) v Vale of White Horse District Council & anr (respondents) (external link)

The Appellant appeals from the order made by Jay J dated 8 July 2024 dismissing her appeal under section 204 Housing Act 1996.

The Appellant is a French citizen who has been granted pre-Settled Status under the EU Settlement Scheme.

The issue is whether she can rely on rights derived from the UK’s EU Withdrawal Agreement in order to make her automatically eligible for homelessness assistance under Part 7 of the Housing Act 1996.

The main issue was whether at the time she applied for housing assistance the Appellant was residing on the basis of the Withdrawal Agreement, given the new residence status.

The judge held that she was not so residing and dismissed her appeal.

Thursday 15 May 2025

KSY Juice Blends UK Ltd (claimant/appellant) v Citrosuco GMBH (defendant/respondent) (external link)

By an Appellant Notice filed on 30 August 2024, the Appellant, appeals the Order, dated 9 August 2024 of HHJ Pearce, sitting as a High Court Judge in the Commercial Court in which he dismissed the Appellant’s claim following trial.

The underlying dispute concerns a contract for the sale of “wesos” a by-product of the orange juice extraction process. The contract in dispute was made in 2018 and concerned the supply of wesos by the Appellant to the Respondent in 2019, 2020 and 2021.

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External links

UK Judiciary YouTube Channel (external link)