Employment: Equality of treatment of men and women
Equal pay for equal work.
Employment: Remuneration
National minimum wage.
Judicial review: Income support
Covid self-employment income support scheme did not unlawfully discriminate against women who had taken maternity leave in the three preceding tax years.
Criminal law: Retrial
Guidance given following prosecution’s application for permission to arraign defendant eight months after conviction quashed and retrial ordered.
Deprivation of citizenship
*R (on the application of Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission; R (on the application of Begum) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Begum v Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Employment: ‘Worker’
Appeal concerning whether Uber drivers ‘workers’ provide personal services to second appellant, and if so, what periods constitute their ‘working time’.
Practice: Pre-trial or post-judgment relief
Striking out.
Mental health: Detention
Meaning of ‘personally seen’ and ‘personally examined’ in context of detention of persons with mental disorders during coronavirus pandemic.
Social security: Universal credit
Judicial review claim, alleging unlawful discrimination concerning mechanism for payment of childcare costs element of universal credit regime.
Extradition: European arrest warrant
Effect of UK’s withdrawal from EU.
Covid-19: Business interruption insurance
The Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd and others.
Judicial review: Costs of application
Costs against court.
European Union: Civil and commercial matters
Exclusive jurisdiction in matters relating to rights in rem in immovable property.
Gaming: Casino
Gaming duty.
Criminal law: Dishonesty
Test for dishonesty.
Environmental damage: Length of sentence
Correct approach to guidelines when sentencing in cases of environmental damage.
Libel and slander: Defamatory words
Actor Johnny Depp did not succeed in his action for libel.
Trade marks: Registration
Refusal to register the word sign ‘ROSLAGSÖL’ as a national trade mark.
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.