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

View previous cases on the Court of Appeal video archive page

Friday 19 April 2024

SY RORO 1 PTE LTD & anr (claimants/respondents) v ONORATO ARMATORI S.R.L. & Ors (defendants/appellants)

Application for permission to appeal the orders of Sir William Blair, sitting as a Judge of the High Court, sitting in the Commercial Court, dated the 25 March and 8 April 2024.

The issue in the case relates to two Ro-Ro ferries which were the subject of a series of back-to-back bareboat charters entered into by way of the financing of the acquisition of the vessels by the charterers from the owners (who also owned the yard where the vessels were built). The owners’ case is that the charters have been validly terminated and they are entitled to redelivery. Orders for redelivery have been made by an arbitral tribunal under the head charterparties, but not complied with. The charterers (using that term generically) deny that the charters have been validly terminated, alternatively submit that they are entitled to relief against forfeiture.

Tuesday 23 April 2024

The Lord Chancellor (2nd defendant/appellant) v MTA (claimant/respondent) & anr

By Appellant’s Notice filed on 15 February 2023, the Lord Chancellor (LC) appeals against the order made by Freedman J dated 25 January 2023 dismissing the LC’s application to strike out R1’s Part 7 claim for damages arising out of judicial acts under sections 7 and 9 of the Human Rights Act 1998 as an abuse of process.

R1 brought a claim for damages against the LC under section 9 of the HRA on basis that various judicial orders breached his rights under Articles 5 and 6 of the ECHR.

The LC applied to have that claim struck out on basis that it is an abuse of process applying the approach of the CA in Mazhar v Lord Chancellor [2021] Fam 103; R1 should first have appealed the judicial orders under challenge so that the appellate courts can determine whether the judicial orders in question breached his ECHR rights. If such a determination is made, it would then be open to R1 to bring a Part 7 claim for damages.

The judge dismissed the LC’s application.

Tuesday 23 April 2024

Re: B (children)

By an Appellant’s Notice filed on 26 January 2024, this is an appeal against the decision of Recorder Gough, sitting in the Family Court, dated 10 January 2024. The applicant mother appeals the Care and Placement Orders.

Tuesday 23 – Wednesday 24 April 2024

Haque (claimant/respondent) v Hussain & ors (defendants/appellants)

By Appellant’s Notice filed on 6 June 2023, this is an appeal against the Order dated 13 March 2023 of ICC Judge Jones, Sitting as a High Court Judge in the Business and Property Courts in which he held that a certain properties were owned by the Respondent.

The issues relate to the interpretation of Constitutional Documents of unincorporated association (a Pakistani political party) in particular, whether the entity which owned properties in the UK was the same entity as the party or a separate entity. This is a dispute over the Ownership of six properties (and the proceeds of the sale of a seventh) in North West London.

Tuesday 23 – Thursday 25 April 2024

Carey Street Investments Ltd (In Liquidation) & anr (claimants/appellants) v Brown & anr (defendants/respondents)

By Appellant’s Notice filed on 4 July 2023, this is an appeal against the Judgment, dated 28 April 2023 and the consequent Order dated 13 June 2023, of Robin Vos, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Business and Property Courts in which he dismissed the Appellants’ Claims.

The claims involved allegations of tax evasion relating to the affairs of two claimant companies, now in liquidation. Equity Trust was the ultimate owner of the claimant companies. The D1, Mr Brown, joined Equity Trust as an executive director in July 2004. He became a director of the claimant companies. The claimant companies say that, in breach of his duties as director, Mr Brown, with a view to the evasion of corporation tax on capital gains by the claimant companies, agreed to the transfer of the properties owned by them to their parent companies at a substantial undervalue. The also say that D1 improperly agreed to the payment by the owner of property in Carey Street, CSI, to its parent company of interest and management charges which were not justified, to evade tax. The Judge dismissed the claims.

Wednesday 24 (2:00pm) – Thursday 25 April 2024

Beech Developments (Manchester) Ltd (1st claimant/appellant) & ors v HM Revenue and Customs & ors (respondents)

Issue: CIS scheme for tax collection in the construction industry – whether HMRC is entitled to keep amounts which have been overpaid. Correct interpretation of Reg 13(3) of the Income Tax (Construction Industry Scheme) Regulations 2005. Whether HMRC can lawfully issue a “direction” of ‘non-liability to pay’ an amount, in circumstances where there is an existing and prior HMRC “determination” of ‘liability to pay’ that same amount.

This appeal concerns a situation in which a contractor collects tax under the CIS scheme which the sub-contractor separately meets or has already met. HMRC argued that it was entitled to retain the over payment.

Wednesday 24 April 2024

Dawes (claimant/appellant) v Secretary of State for Transport (defendant/respondent) & anr

By Appellant’s Notice filed on 30 October 2023, this is an appeal against the Order dated 22 September 2023 of Mr Justice Dove sitting in the Planning Court in which he dismissed the Appellant’s Judicial Review of the decision of the Secretary of State to make a Development Consent Order for the Reopening and Development of Manston Airport.

Thursday 25 April 2024

Re: C-L-R (children)

By an Appellant’s Notice filed at this Court on 4 March 2024, this is an appeal against the decision of HHJ Coppel, sitting in the Family Division of the High Court, dated 12 February 2024. The applicant Local Authority appeal the decision for the subject child to be placed in his father’s care pursuant to a Child Arrangements Order, to be enforced in Italy pursuant to the Hague Convention.

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