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UK Supreme Court
Hearing
17 March 2025
Iconix Luxembourg Holdings SARL (Respondent) v Dream Pairs Europe Inc. and another (Appellants)
Lord Hodge,
Lord Briggs,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Stephens,
Lady Rose
Was the Court of Appeal right to conclude the trial judge’s conclusion on the similarity of logos was “rationally insupportable”? At what point of time should the confusion of consumers be assessed in a claim for trade mark infringement? What approach should the court take when assessing whether trade marks are similar?
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Hearing
18 March 2025
Kattina Anglin (Appellant) v Governor of the Cayman Islands (Respondent) Cayman Islands)
Lord Reed,
Lord Lloyd-Jones,
Lord Burrows,
Lady Simler,
Dame Janice Pereira
Did the Governor of the Cayman Islands have the power by reason of section 81 of the Cayman Islands Constitution Order 2009 (the “Constitution”) to enact the Civil Partnership Law 2020? If not, what is the appropriate relief?
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Judgment
18 March 2025
Rubis Bahamas Ltd (Appellant) v Lillian Antionette Russell (Respondent) (The Bahamas)
Lord Lloyd-Jones,
Lord Briggs,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Stephens,
Lady Rose,
Lord Richards,
Lady Simler
(1) Can claims for unliquidated damages exceeding $4,000 give rise to appeals to the JCPC as of right under section 23(1) of the Bahamas Court of Appeal Act (the “CA Act”)? (2) Does the rule in Rylands v Fletcher impose strict liability on a landowner and lessor who neither occupies the land, nor owns or controls the dangerous thing? (3) Is the storage of fuel underground a “non-natural use of land” for the purposes of the rule in Rylands v Fletcher?
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
19 March 2025
Rukhadze and others (Appellants) v Recovery Partners GP Ltd and another (Respondents)
Lord Reed,
Lord Hodge,
Lord Briggs,
Lord Leggatt,
Lord Burrows,
Lady Rose,
Lord Richards
Whether the current test for an account of profits (where a fiduciary has to pay back money earned due to a breach of a duty) should be changed to introduce a requirement that the fiduciary could not have made the same profit in a way that avoided a breach of duty, i.e. to introduce a test that asks: ‘Could the same profit have been made but for the breach of fiduciary duty’?
UK Supreme Court
Hearing
19 March 2025
The Prudential Assurance Company Ltd (Appellant) v Commissioners for His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (Respondent)
Lord Reed,
Lord Hodge,
Lord Lloyd-Jones,
Lord Stephens,
Lady Rose,
Lord Richards,
Lady Simler
Is the effect of section 43 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 that no VAT is chargeable on an intra-group supply of services even where the supplier has left the group by the time consideration for the supply is the subject of a VAT invoice and paid?