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On Monday 20 April 2015 the Court will hear the appeal of BPE Solicitors & Anor v Gabriel concerning whether a solicitor has a duty to give general commercial advice. This will be heard in Court 2 from 11am.

On Tuesday 21 April the Court will hear the appeal of Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs v The Rank Group PLC regarding whether the element of chance in a slot machine connected to a detached random number generator which is used by several such machines is ‘provided by means of the machine’. It will be heard in Court 2 from 10.30am.

On Wednesday 22 April the Court will hand down judgment in Jetivia SA & Anor v Bilta (UK) Ltd & Ors concerning the liquidation of the company Bilta (UK) Ltd and the conduct of its directors and sole shareholder, and R v GH, regarding whether an individual who opened a bank account, later used by another to store the proceeds of insurance fraud, commits the offence of entering or becoming concerned in an arrangement which he knows or suspects facilitates the acquisition, retention, use or control of criminal property by or on behalf of another person contrary to Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, s 328. These will be handed down in Court 2 from 9.45am.

On Wednesday the Court will also hear the appeal of Keyu & Ors v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs & Anor regarding whether there is a legal duty to issue a public inquiry into the killing on 11-12 December 1948 of 24 unarmed civilians by a patrol of Scots Guards in the village of Batang Kali, Malaya. This will be heard in Court 1 from 10.30am and will continue on Thursday.

On Wednesday 22 April 2015 the Privy Council will hear the appeal of Pinard-Bryne v Linton regarding whether the Court of Appeal was wrong to have overturned the Judge’s rejection of the defence of qualified privilege following Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd [2001] 2 AC 127. This will be heard in Court 3 at 10.30am.

The following Supreme Court judgments remain outstanding:

PwC v SAAD Investments Company Ltd (In Liquidation), heard 29-30 April.

International Energy Group Ltd v Zurich Insurance plc, heard 15 and 16 July 2014.

Jetivia SA & Anor v Bilta (UK) Ltd & Ors, heard 14 October 2014.

Graughran (AP) v The Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, heard 16 October 2014.

Anson v The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, heard 27 October 2014.

JR 38, Re Judicial Review, heard 6 November 2014.

Beghal v DPP, heard 12 November 2014.

Hotak v London Borough of Southwark; Johnson v Solihull; and Kanu v London Borough of Southwark, heard on 15 December 2014.

R (Hemming (/a Simply Pleasure Ltd) & Ors) v Westminster City Council, heard on 13 January 2015.

OPO (by his litigation friend BHM) & Anor v MLA, heard 19-20 January 2015.

University and College Union v The University of Stirling, heard 21 January 2015.

Arnold v Britton & Ors, heard 26 January 2015.

International Energy Group Limited v Zurich Insurance PLC UK Branch, heard 27 January 2015.

Haile v London Borough of Waltham Forest, heard 29 January.

Olympic Airlines S.A. v The Trustees of the Olympic Airlines S.A. Pension and Life Assurance Scheme, heard 2-3 February.

Coventry & Ors v Lawrence & Anor, heard 9-10 & 12 February 2015.

Woolway v Mazars, heard 11 February 2015.

R (Bourgass & Anor) v Secretary of State for Justice, heard 16-17 February 2015.

Shahid v Scottish Ministers (Scotland), heard 18 February 2015.

R v GH, heard 23-24 February 2015.

R (Ali) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and another case, heard 25-26 February 2015.

TN & MA (Afghanistan) (AP) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; AA (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, heard 2-5 March 2015.

Mirga v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions; Samin v Westminster City Council, heard on 6-7 March 2015.

Pendragon plc & Ors v The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, heard on 8 March 2015.

R (Lumsdon & Ors) v Legal Services Board, heard 16 March 2015.

R (Cornwall Council) v Secretary of State for Health; R (Cornwall Council) v Somerset County Council, heard 18-19 March 2015.

R v Harvey, heard 24 March 2015.

Starbucks (HK) Ltd & Anor vBritish Sky Broadcasting Group Plc & Ors, heard 25-26 March 2015.

Cameron Mathieson, a deceased child (by his father Craig Mathieson) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, heard 26 March 2015.

Aspect Contracts (Asbestos) Ltd v Higgins Construction Plc, heard 14-15 April 2015.

R (ClientEarth) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, heard 26 April 2015.