This Week in the Supreme Court – week commencing 20th February 2023 – UKSCBlog
Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website.
On monday 20th and Tuesday 21st February 2023the Court will hear the case of Lifestyle Equities CV and another v Ahmed and anotheron appeal from [2021] EWCA Civ 675. The case concerns two issues; 1) What is the nature and extent of the liability of a director, or senior executive employee, for causing a company to commit a civil wrong, for which a claim can be brought without a finding of fault by the wrongdoer (eg a ‘strict liability tort’)? Here, the strict