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Tax Law, Advance corporation tax, Limitation Act 1980: The Limitation Act 1980 applies to claims for restitution of monies paid under a mistake of law. The six-year period allowed under the Limitation Act applies from the date on which the claimant has discovered the mistake (or could have reasonably discovered it) rather than the date on which ...
Tort law: In determining the damages payable for pain, suffering and loss of amenity due the Civil Liability Act 2019 should be used in the case of whiplash injuries and common law awards should be applied in non-whiplash injuries. [10] Secretary of State for Business and Trade (Respondent) v Mercer [2024] UKSC 12: 17 April 2024 Labour law
The case summaries below are not official or authoritative. Unless otherwise noted, cases were heard by a panel of 5 judges. Cases involving Scots law are highlighted in orange. Cases involving Northern Irish law are highlighted in green. List of judgments of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom delivered in 2009
The court ruled that section 1 of the Defamation Act 2013 imposed a new threshold over the common law interpretation of defamation, being that the harm caused had to be serious. It was found that the damage to reputation of the individual in this case did not cause serious harm. [27] Samuels v Birmingham City Council [2019] UKSC 28: 12 June
Case name Citation Date Legal subject Summary of decision R (Haralambous) v Crown Court at St Albans [2018] UKSC 1 24 January Constitutional law, Search and seizure: Closed material procedures could be used in a judicial review of a Crown Court decision and there was no minimum core of material that the government was required to disclose to the other party where such procedures were used.
UK Tax Law, Value Added Tax: Judgment following a referral to the Court of Justice of the European Union [d] (CJEU) in a previous supreme court case (see 2020 UKSC 15). The CJEU had confirmed that a trader could not recover VAT on supplies made to it where the original supplier and HMRC had mistakenly treated the original supplies as exempt ...
The burden of proof in discrimination claims lies with the claiment, in this case the employee, who must provide facts from which a tribunal could draw an inference of discrimination. [5] X v Kuoni Travel Ltd [2021] UKSC 34 [a] 30 July 2021 Contract Law, EU Law, Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tours Regulations 1992
This is a list of the judgments given by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in the year 2017. 5 cases have been decided as of 25 January 2017 and these are ordered by neutral citation. In 2017 Lord Neuberger is the President of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale is the Deputy President.