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Anwar v Advocate General for Scotland

Subject Matter

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS — Employment tribunals — Interim relief — Claimant granted award by Scottish employment tribunal in proceedings against former employer — Claimant seeking interim relief after failure to pay award — Scottish law requiring separate court action to be raised to obtain interim remedy of warrant to arrest employer’s bank accounts on dependence of claim — Whether Scottish courts having jurisdiction to grant warrant for arrestment on dependence of tribunal application — Whether requirement for separate court proceedings breaching EU law principles of effectiveness, effective remedy and equivalence — Whether UK failing to properly implement EU Directives — Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (c 18), Pt 1A

[2021] UKSC 44; [2022] ICR 146; [2021] WLR(D) 536, SC(Sc)

JUDICIAL REVIEW — European Union law — Whether implementation of directives on discrimination in employment contrary to European Union law

[2019] CSIH 43; 2020 SC 95, Ct of Sess

EMPLOYMENT — Discrimination — Whether competent to raise ancillary proceedings in an ordinary court for diligence on the dependence in respect of an employment tribunal claim

[2019] CSIH 43; 2020 SC 95, Ct of Sess

EUROPEAN LAW — Principle of effectiveness — Principle of equivalence — Whether failure to provide for interim diligence in respect of discrimination claims a contravention of principles of effectiveness and equivalence

[2019] CSIH 43; 2020 SC 95, Ct of Sess

PRACTICE — Anonymity — Circumstances in which an anonymity order should be made

[2019] CSIH 43; 2020 SC 95, Ct of Sess

Cases Cited

Cases cited in: Anwar v Advocate General for Scotland [2021] UKSC 44; [2022] ICR 146; [2021] WLR(D) 536, SC(Sc)

Amicus v Dynamex Friction Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 381; [2009] ICR 511, CA

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Brown v Hamilton District Council [1982] UKHL 13; 1983 SC (HL) 1; (1983) 133 NLJ 63; 1983 SLT 397, HL(Sc)

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MacDonald v MacDonald (1829) 7 Shaw 765, Ct of Sess

Mendok BV v Cumberland Maritime Corpn 1989 SLT 192, Ct of Sess

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Phonographic Performance Ltd v Department of Trade and Industry [2004] EWHC 1795 (Ch); [2004] 1 WLR 2893; [2005] 1 All ER 369, Ch D

Puškár v Finančné riaditeľstvo Slovenskej republiky (Case C-73/16); EU:C:2017:725; [2017] 4 WLR 209; [2018] 1 CMLR 44; [2017] WLR(D) 624, ECJ

R (Child Poverty Action Group) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2010] UKSC 54; [2011] 2 AC 15; [2011] 2 WLR 1; [2011] PTSR 185; [2011] 1 All ER 729; [2010] WLR (D) 322; Case details, SC(E)

R (Corner House Research) v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [2005] EWCA Civ 192; [2005] 1 WLR 2600; [2005] 4 All ER 1, CA

R (UNISON) v Lord Chancellor (Nos 1 and 2) [2017] UKSC 51; [2020] AC 869; [2017] 3 WLR 409; [2017] ICR 1037; [2017] 4 All ER 903; [2017] WLR (D) 552; Case details, SC(E)

R v Secretary of State for Transport, Ex p Factortame Ltd (No 2) (Case C-213/89); EU:C:1990:257; EU:C:1990:257; [1991] 1 AC 603; [1990] 3 WLR 818; [1991] 1 All ER 70; [1990] 2 Lloyd's Rep 351; The Times, 20 June 1990, ECJ

Rippin Group Ltd v ITP Interpipe SA 1995 SLT 831, Ct of Sess

Robert Taylor & Partners (Edinburgh) Ltd v William Gerard Ltd 1996 SLT (Sh Ct) 105

SL v Vueling Airlines SA (Case C-86/19); EU:C:2020:538; EU:C:2020:195; [2021] 1 WLR 2479; [2020] WLR(D) 425, ECJ

Sanderson & Son v Armour & Co Ltd 1922 SC (HL) 117, HL(Sc)

Svenska Petroleum AB v HOR Ltd 1986 SLT 513, Ct of Sess

ToTel Ltd v Revenue and Customs Comrs [2018] UKSC 44; [2018] UKSC 44; [2018] 1 WLR 4053; [2018] 4 All ER 949; [2018] STC 1642; [2018] WLR (D) 531; Case details, SC(E)

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Commentary

UK Supreme Court Blog
New Judgment: Anwar v The Advocate General for Scotland (representing the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (Scotland) [2021] UKSC 44 Case comment

Case Comment: Anwar v The Advocate General (representing the Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy) [2021] UKSC 44 Case comment

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