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In the Supreme Court w/c 30 April 2018 – UKSCBlog
This week the Supreme Court sits in Belfast, with talks and events by the Justices planned throughout the week.
On Monday 30 April, the Supreme Court will hear the appeal of In the matter of an application by Siobhan McLaughlin for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland). This appeal will consider whether the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, s 39A(1), which provides for payment of a Widowed Parent’s Allowance, is incompatible with the ECHR, art 14 read with art 8 and/or art 1 of Protocol 1. This will be heard in the Northern Irish Inns of Court, Bar Library.
On Monday 30 April until Tuesday 1 May, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council will hear the appeal of Al Sadik v Investcorp Bank BSC & Ors. This appeal will consider whether the terms of the relevant share purchase agreement permitted the first respondent to invest the appellant’s monies via the fourth respondent and, in particular, to use the fourth respondent to borrow monies for the purpose of making leveraged investments, and whether the purchase of shares in the Fourth Respondent was itself an investment and, if so, whether this was permitted by the share purchase agreement. The appeal will also consider whether, assuming the terms of the share purchase agreement did not permit such an investment, there was, in any event, actionable loss, and whether the first instance judge ought to have found that the first respondent had acted deceitfully in the manner in which it carried out its reporting obligations to the appellant. This will be heard in Courtroom 1.
On Tuesday 1 until Wednesday 2 May, the Supreme Court will hear the appeal of Lee v Ashers Baking Company Ltd & Ors. This appeal will consider whether the appellants directly discriminated against the respondent on grounds of sexual orientation, contrary to the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations (NI) 2006, and religious and political belief, contrary to the Fair Employment and Treatment (NI) Order 1998, by refusing to make a cake decorated with the words ‘Support Gay Marriage’. It will also consider whether the relevant provisions of the 2006 Regulations and 1998 Order breached the appellants’ ECHR, art 9 or 10 rights, separately or together with art 14. This will be heard in the Northern Irish Inns of Court, Bar Library.
On Wednesday 2 May, the Supreme Court will hand down the judgment in R v McCool; R v Harkin (Northern Ireland). The hand down panel will be Lord Mance, Lord Kerr and Lady Black. This appeal considered whether a confiscation order under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, s 156 can be made by a Crown Court in circumstances where the defendant is convicted in proceedings before that Crown Court of an offence or offences which were committed before 24 March 2003, given the stipulations of the commencement, transitional and savings provisions set out in the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Commencement No5, Transitional Provisions, Savings and Amendments) Order 2003, arts 2, 4 and 11.
Lady Hale has publically backed reform of family laws, including the removal of fault from the divorce process.
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