Housing: Charity
Lawfulness of restriction on provision of housing to members of Orthodox Jewish community.
Family proceedings: Financial relief and jurisdiction
Adult son’s application for financial relief from married and cohabiting parents.
Pension scheme: Discrimination
Court dismisses appeal of two women born in the 1950s who were affected by adjustments to the state pension age.
Divorce: Financial remedies
Family Division rules on application which arose in proceedings concerning enforcement of a debt owed by a husband to his wife.
Restraint of trade by agreement: Lessor and lessee
Appeal succeeds in dispute concerning alleged restraint of trade in covenant relating to placement of appellant’s shop in shopping centre.
Inheritance tax: Exemptions and relief
Transfer of funds from pension plan was not a transfer of value, Supreme Court holds, reversing a Court of Appeal decision on inheritance tax.
Evidence: Admissibility
Judge should take into account a statement suspected to be obtained by torture when assessing reliability of a statement as evidence.
Reflective loss
Appeal succeeds against finding that sums company sought to recover fell outside 'reflective loss' principle.
Family proceedings: Maintenance order
English court has jurisdiction to make maintenance order in favour of party to a marriage where relevant divorce proceedings have been conducted in Scotland.
Prosecution evidence: Complainant’s mobile phone
Court of Appeal considers issues relating to retention, inspection, copying, disclosure and deletion of electronic records held by prosecution witnesses.
Remote hearings: Covid-19
Family Division president rules trial was not one that could be contemplated for remote hearing during pandemic.
Company: Administration order
Judge was correct to find administrators had adopted contracts of employees who had consented to be furloughed.
Family proceedings: Evidence
Court provides guidance on correct approach to identification of perpetrator as result of alleged ill-treatment from pool of perpetrators.
Data protection: use of personal data for improper purpose
Court held employee’s wrongful conduct not so closely connected with acts he was authorised to do that it could fairly be regarded as done by him while acting in ordinary course of employment.