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Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website.

On Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 March, the Supreme Court will hear the case of Harcus Sinclar LLP v Your Lawyers Ltd. The case will consider five issues:

(1) Does the court have inherent jurisdiction to supervise the conduct of an authorised body through which a solicitor practises?

(2) Can the court’s inherent supervisory jurisdiction in respect of a solicitor be engaged if a solicitor gives an undertaking on behalf of an authorised body through which he or she practises and fails to ensure that the undertaking is performed?

(3) If an undertaking given by a solicitor or authorised body restrains its trade, is its construction, validity and enforcement under the court’s inherent jurisdiction to be determined in accordance with contractual principles?

(4) Where an undertaking given by a solicitor is alleged to be contrary to public policy under the doctrine of restraint of trade, is the fact that it is a solicitor’s undertaking relevant to the question whether is enforcement in contract is contrary to public policy?

(5) Is the undertaking given by Mr Parker on behalf of HSLLP unenforceable on the ground of public policy under the doctrine of restraint of trade?

On Friday 26 March, the Supreme Court will hand down judgment in Asda Stored Ltd v Brierly and Ors. This appeal considered whether employees in Asda’s retail operations are entitled to compare themselves with employees in the distribution centres so that they can rely on section 79(4)(c) of the Equality Act 2010 or, as regards the period covered by the Equal Pay Act 1970, so that they are in the “same employment” as defined in section 1(6) of the 1970 Act.

 

The hand-down will be streamed on Supreme Court Live and will then be made available on the Supreme Court’s video on demand service.

The following Supreme Court judgments remain outstanding:

The Law Debenture Trust Corporation plc v Ukraine (Represented by the Minister of Finance of Ukraine acting upon the instructions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine) Nos. 2 and 3, heard 9-12 December 2019

Takhar v Gracefield Developments Ltd & Ors, heard 23 July 2020

Allykhan v Abdool (Mauritius), heard 23 July 2020

Evergreen Marine (UK) Ltd v Nautical Challenge Ltd, heard 5-6 October 2020

Manchester Building Society (Appellant) v Grant Thornton UK LLP (Respondent), heard 13-14 October 2020

SC, CB and 8 children (Appellants) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and others (Respondents), heard 20-22 October 2020

Pakistan International Airline Corporation v Times Travel (UK) Ltd, heard 2-3 November 2020

Khan v Meadows, heard 5 November 2020

A and B v Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority and Anor, heard 11 November 2020

Triple Point Technology Inc v PTT Public Company Ltd, heard 12 November 2020

R (on the application of TN (Vietnam) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Anor, heard 30 November and 01 December 2020

Director of Public Prosecutions v Ziegler and Ors, heard 12 January 2021

FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC v Brownlie (as dependant and executrix of Professor Sir Ian Brownlie, CBE, QC), heard 13 and 14 January 2021

Matthew and Ors v Sedman and Ors, heard 19 January 2021

R (on the application AB) v Secretary of State for Justice, heard 20 and 21 January 2021

Balhousie Holdings Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (Scotland), heard 26 and 27 January 2021

CPRE Kent v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, heard 28 January 2021

Burnett or Grant v International Insurance Company of Hanover Limited, heard 8 February 2021

R (on the application of A) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, heard 10 February 2021

Rittson-Thomas and Ors v Oxfordshire County Council, heard 18 February 2021

Zabolotnyi v The Mateszalka District Court, Hungary, heard 23 February 2021

Anwar v The Advocate General (representing the Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (Scotland), heard 25 February 2021

Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs v Tooth, heard 2 March 2021

Sanambar v Secretary of State for the Home Department, heard 4 March 2021

R (on the application of Fylde Coast Farms Ltd (formerly Oyston Estates Ltd)) v Fylde Borough Council, heard 9 March 2021

BF (Eritrea) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, heard 16 March 2021

Harcus Sinclar LLP v Your Lawyers Ltd, heard 24 and 25 March 2021