This Week in the Supreme Court – week commencing 16th January 2023 – UKSCBlog

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

On Wednesday 18th january the Court will hear the case of Moulsdale t/a Moulsdale Properties v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (Scotland), on appeal from [2021] CSHI 29. The appeal concerns whether the taxpayer’s sale of certain property was a supply exempt from value added tax (“VAT”). More specifically, whether the taxpayer intended or expected that the property was sold or would be a capital item in the hands of the purchaser under Schedule 10 of the VAT Act 1994, resulting in the taxpayer’s

RightCon 2022 – Reflections by Jeni Tennison

RightCon 2022 – Reflections by Jeni TennisonRightsCon is the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age. RightsCon offers a platform for thousands of participants around the world to converge, connect, and contribute to a shared agenda for the future. It enables business leaders, activists, technologists, policymakers, journalists, philanthropists, researchers, and artists from around the world to interact and explore opportunities to advance human rights in the digital age. The 11th RightsCon Summit in 2022 took place from 6-10 June.

Jeni Tennison attended the summit and has provided some reflections from the following sessions.

a) Decolonizing co-design: Global South perspectives

This session looked at