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. 

Wednesday 10 – Friday 12 December 2025

South Bank Hotel Management Company Ltd (claimant/appellant) v Galliard Hotels Ltd & ors (defendants/respondents) (external link)

By Appellant’s Notice filed on 3 December 2024, the Appellant (Claimant below) South Bank Hotel Management Company Limited (“SBHMC”), appeal the decision of The Honourable Mr Justice Richards, sitting as a Judge of the High Court, judgment being delivered on 14 October 2024 following trial.

The appeal centres on an annex building (the “Annex”) to a hotel (the “Hotel”), now known as the Park Plaza County Hall Hotel, at a site (the “Site”). In the claim, Lodgeshine Limited claimed for arrears of rent it said South Bank Hotel Management Company Limited owed pursuant to an underlease of the Annex that was granted to SBHMC in 2008. SBHMC countered that the Underlease formed part of an objectionable and fraudulent “Annex Lease Scheme” perpetrated by various members of the Galliard group of companies and the managing director and chairman of the Galliard group.

Friday 12 December 2025

(1) Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport (claimant/applicant) v Secretary of State for Transport (defendant/respondent) (external link)
(2)  Possible (The 10:10 Foundation) (claimant/applicant) v Secretary of State for Transport (defendant/respondent)

These are two applications for permission to appeal the order of Lang J dated 8 May 2025 by which she dismissed its judicial review claim.

The claimants had challenged by way of judicial review the defendant’s decision of 19 July 2022 to publish the Jet Zero Strategy (“the JZS”), setting out the Government’s strategy for decarbonising the UK aviation sector by 2050, and the Defendant’s 2023 Review decision that the JZS remained the appropriate strategy to pursue aviation decarbonisation.

Following a rolled up hearing, Lang J granted permission to bring a judicial review claim but dismissed the judicial review.

Tuesday 16 December 2025

Secretary of State for Work & Pensions (appellant) v NJ (respondent) (external link)

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions appeal the decision of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber) issued on 5 July 2024. By that decision, the Upper Tribunal refused the Appellant’s appeal from a decision of the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) dated 16 September 2022. On that date, the FTT allowed the Respondent’s appeal against decisions of the Appellant that the Respondent was not entitled to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) during several periods when she was absent from Great Britain and that there had accordingly been overpayments of ESA to her which were recoverable.

Tuesday 16 December 2025

James & anr (claimants/appellants) v HSBC Bank Plc (defendant/respondent) (external link)

By Appellant’s Notice filed on 18 September 2024, the Claimants (Cs) appeal the order dated 17 July 2024 made by HHJ Blohm KC (sitting as a High Court Judge) declining to amend his judgment, striking out entire claim, dismissing Cs’ application to amend and ordering Cs to pay D’s costs.

Following hearings on 23 October 2023 and 17 July 2024 the judge struck out the Cs’ claims on basis that it was statute-barred, and refused their application to amend their particulars of claim.

Tuesday 16 December 2025

Norcros Group (Holdings) Ltd (defendant/appellant) v Kohler Mira Ltd (claimant/respondent) (external link)

By an Appellant’s Notice filed on 23 January 2025, the Appellant appeals the Order dated 9 January 2025 of HHJ Melissa Clarke sitting as a High Court Judge in the Business and Property Courts, Intellectual Property List, in which the Judge declared that the Defendant had infringed the Patent and made a costs order.

The underlying dispute relates to a patent dispute for an infringement of a range of electric showers sold by the Defendant.

Wednesday 17 December 2025

HM Revenue & Customs (appellant) v Medpro Healthcare Ltd & ors (respondents) (external link)

By appellant’s notice filed on 13 November 2025, HMRC appeals a decision of the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) released on 30 July 2025 which allowed the Respondents’ appeal against a decision of the First Tier Tribunal on various grounds.

The appeal concerns the extent to which the Upper Tribunal (Tax & Chancery Chamber) can give guidance to the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) (“FTT”) on how its statutory discretion should be exercised on applications to make appeals to it beyond the permitted statutory time limits. Whilst this appeal immediately concerns VAT, its effect extends to any appeals made to the FTT where there is a statutory discretion to permit a late appeal that does not state therein either any particular factors to be taken into account, or the weight to be given to any such factors.

Thursday 18 December 2025

Tecnimont S.p.A. & anr (claimants/respondents) v LLC EuroChem North-West-2 (defendant/appellant) (external link)

By Appellant’s Notice filed on 2 December 2025, the Appellant (Defendant below) LLC EuroChem North-West 2, appeal the decision of Mr Justice Butcher, sitting as a Judge of the High Court, sitting in the Commercial Court, judgment being delivered on 21 November 2025.

The case concerned an application by Tecnimont S.p.A and MT Russia LLC to enforce peremptory orders issued by a London-seated ICC arbitral tribunal against LLC EuroChem North-West-2 (NW2). The underlying dispute arose from EPC contracts for the construction of a fertiliser plant in Russia, which contained arbitration clauses providing for London arbitration under ICC Rules and English law. Following the imposition of EU sanctions on Russia and on Mr Melnichenko, who controls NW2, the claimants suspended performance, leading NW2 to terminate the contracts and commence counterclaims in arbitration. While the arbitration was ongoing, NW2 initiated parallel proceedings in Russia, including actions replicating its arbitral counterclaims and applications seeking to restrain the claimants from continuing the arbitration. The tribunal issued several peremptory orders requiring NW2 to withdraw those Russian proceedings and anti-arbitration applications, but NW2 failed to comply, prompting the claimants to seek enforcement under section 42 of the Arbitration Act 1996.

The judge granted the injunction sought under section 42, requiring NW2 to comply with the tribunal’s peremptory orders by withdrawing the Russian proceedings and related applications.

Thursday 18 December 2025

Allen (appellant) v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (respondent) (external link)

By Appellant’s Notice submitted on 30 October 2024, the claimant below, appeals the decision of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber) dated 8 May 2024 allowing the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions appeal against the First-tier Tribunal’s (FtT) decision dated 3 May 2022 and remitting the appeals to the FtT for reconsideration at an oral hearing.

The issue is whether or not a person engaged in criminal activity i) is doing “work” for the purposes of Regulation 40(1) of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008; and ii) whether money arising out of that activity can be treated as income under the ESA Regulations.

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External links

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