Visit JCPCAll cases
1415 Cases
UKSC/2024/0093
•
EU LAW
Judgment givenCase summary:(i) Is the child element of universal credit (“UC”) a family benefit under article 3(1)(j) of the Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems; and (ii) Is it necessary for the Supreme Court to refer the matter to the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) under article 158 of the Withdrawal Agreement?
Last updated: 19 November 2025
UKSC/2024/0095
•
PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Do religious education and collective worship provided in a school in Northern Ireland breach the rights of a child, and the child’s parents, under Article 2 of the First Protocol (“A2P1”) to the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”) read with Article 9 ECHR?
Last updated: 19 November 2025
UKSC/2024/0076
•
TORT
Judgment scheduledCase summary:(1) When is a former director of a company liable as an intermeddler? (2) Is the original transfer of Shares to the Company subject to an unpaid vendor’s lien? (3) Is the quantum of equitable compensation for misappropriated property to be ascertained by reference to the date of misappropriation or the date of judgment? (4) Which party bears the burden for proving that the claimant has or has not suffered loss on a counterfactual scenario?
Last updated: 19 November 2025
UKSC/2024/0075
•
TORT
Judgment scheduledCase summary:(1) When is a former director of a company liable as an intermeddler? (2) Is the original transfer of Shares to the Company subject to an unpaid vendor’s lien? (3) Is the quantum of equitable compensation for misappropriated property to be ascertained by reference to the date of misappropriation or the date of judgment? (4) Which party bears the burden for proving that the claimant has or has not suffered loss on a counterfactual scenario?
Linked casesLast updated: 19 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0190
•
Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 19 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0189
•
Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 19 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0005
•
EU LAW
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Was the Court of Appeal correct to hold that (A) whether the claims are time-barred has not been finally determined in the Prudential test case, and should be determined in the present proceedings by applying the law as it stands now (“Limitation Issue”); (B) GREA is not entitled to a claim in restitution for payment of unlawful advance corporation tax utilised against lawful tax or repaid before the issue of its claim (“Set-off Issue”); and (C) by 1 April 2010, the Appellants had not pleaded a claim in restitution for the recovery of unlawful tax paid as a result of their inability to offset unused double taxation relief credit (“Pleading Issue”)?
Last updated: 19 November 2025
UKSC/2024/0135
•
CRIME
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Does the power of the Magistrates’ Court to ‘vary or rescind’ a sentence or order under Article 158A of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 include the power to make a new sentence or other order independent of and additional to a previous sentence or order of that court?
Last updated: 19 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0043
•
PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Awaiting judgmentCase summary:(1) Was it procedurally unfair for the Secretary of State for the Home Department to deprive Mr Kolicaj of his British citizenship without affording him an opportunity to make representations? (2) Did the Court of Appeal act in excess of jurisdiction by quashing the deprivation order made against Mr Kolicaj?
Last updated: 17 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0050
•
LANDLORD AND TENANT
Hearing listedCase summary:Whether a local authority’s duty to house homeless applicants under section 193 of the Housing Act 1996 ends by operation of law or whether the local authority is required to make a decision that the duty has ended.
Last updated: 17 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0081
•
LANDLORD AND TENANT
Hearing listedCase summary:In what circumstances can a party to a contract recover damages for a breach of that contract in respect of losses that were sustained not by the contracting party itself but by its subsidiary?
Last updated: 17 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0090
•
COMMERCIAL
Hearing listedCase summary:The scope of the doctrine of issue estoppel.
Last updated: 17 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0067
•
COMMERCIAL
Hearing listedCase summary:Whether ‘furlough’ payments made under the Government Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme fall to be deducted from the amount payable in insurance claims for business interruption losses suffered by companies as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Linked casesLast updated: 17 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0070
•
CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in its interpretation and application of section 5 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (“DVCVA”)?
Last updated: 17 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0175
•
PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Does the killing by British soldiers of the Appellant’s father in 1978 fall within the temporal scope of the Human Rights Act 1998? Did the Ministry of Defence act irrationally in delaying in the disclosure of evidence in the inquest?
Last updated: 17 November 2025
Sign up for case email alerts
Sign up to receive email alerts when a new case is added by the Court.