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The Supreme Court will hear one appeal this week. This is the Scots civil appeal in the ease of Farstad Supply AS v Enviroco Limited will be heard on Tuesday and Wednesday by a bench consisting of Lords Phillip, Hope, Rodger, Mance and Clarke. The appeal is from a decision of the Inner House in relation to a claim arising out of a charterparty agreement, and the interpretation of s.3(2) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1940 in relation to contributory negligence. Our case preview can be found here. The case details on the Supreme Court website can be found here.
Two judgments have been announced for next Wednesday. First, in the case of Agbaje v Akinnoye-Agbaje – the first matrimonial finance case to be heard by the Supreme Court, heard on 3-4 November 2009 and the oldest outstanding case. Our case preview can be found here. Second, there is the case of RTS Flexible Systems Limited v Molkerei Alois Muller Gmbh & Company KG – a case concerning a letter of intent. The case was heard on 2 December 2009. Our case preview is here.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (“JCPC”) remains strangely free of work. No appeals are listed this week and no judgments have been announced. Mr Benjamin Pell points out that in the period 2000-2009 the average number of appeals heard by the JCPC in Hilary Term has been 18 – with 16 being heard in 2009. In 2010, on the assumption that no further appeals are listed, the JCPC will have heard just 3 appeals.