The Appellants are the owners of the ship CMA CGM LIBRA; the Respondents are cargo interests. The ship was run aground shortly after leaving Xiamen en route to Hong Kong. The grounding occurred due to a series of errors in navigation by the master of the ship during a manoeuvre which took him outside the buoyed fairway running from the port. The master was following a passage plan, made before the voyage, which was defective in that it did not provide proper details warning of the existence of depths less than charted outside the fairway. The judge at first instance held the errors in the passage plan were causative of the master’s errors. The question is whether the errors in the passage plan were such as to make the CMA CGM LIBRA unseaworthy.

The respondent has issued a claim alleging that the appellant (‘Google’) has breached its duties as a data controller under the DPA to over 4m Apple iPhone users during a period of some months in 2011- 2012, when Google was able to collect and use their browser generated information. The respondent sued on his own behalf and on behalf of a class of other residents in England and Wales whose data was collected in this way. He applied for permission to serve the claim out of the jurisdiction. Google opposed the application on the grounds that (i) the pleaded facts did not disclose any basis for claiming compensation under the DPA and (ii) the court should not in any event permit the claim to continue as a representative action.

Two directors of a company used the company to commit a criminal offence, from which they personally obtained a benefit of £4.55 million. They were prosecuted and convicted of the criminal offence and were made the subject of confiscation orders based on that benefit. However, in an action between Aquila Advisory Ltd (to which the company’s rights had been assigned) and the directors, in which the Crown Prosecution Service intervened, the High Court determined that the company, and hence Aquila Advisory Ltd, could recover what remained of the £4.55m from the directors because they had acted in breach of their fiduciary duty to the company and thus held the proceeds of the crime on constructive trust for the company. The CPS seeks to prevent Aquila from recovering the £4.55m in priority to the confiscation orders.