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UKSC/2023/0121
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Is it lawful for a local authority's constitution to restrict voting by members on a deferred application for planning permission to those who had been present at the meeting(s) at which the application had previously been considered?
Last updated: 31 May 2026
UKSC/2023/0062
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether the current test for an account of profits (where a fiduciary has to pay back money earned due to a breach of a duty) should be changed to introduce a requirement that the fiduciary could not have made the same profit in a way that avoided a breach of duty, i.e. to introduce a test that asks: ‘Could the same profit have been made but for the breach of fiduciary duty’?
Last updated: 31 May 2026
UKSC/2023/0085
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether the one-year time limit in Article III, rule 6 of the Hague Visby Rules applies to claims for mis-delivery of cargo after discharge of the cargo from the vessel.
Last updated: 31 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0070
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CRIME
Hearing listedCase 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: 31 May 2026
UKSC/2021/0184
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PROCEDURE
Judgment givenCase summary:Was the Court of Appeal wrong: (i) when it determined that the doctrine of merger did not extinguish Zavarco's cause of action in the 2016 Claim and thereby prevent pursuit of the identical cause of action in the 2018 Claim; (ii) to find that the doctrine of merger does not depend on the cause of action asserted, but instead upon the relief obtained; (iii) to find that the doctrine of merger does not apply to any judgment granting a declaration.
Last updated: 29 May 2026
UKSC/2026/0072
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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 29 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0042
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DEVOLUTION
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Does the Minister of Health for Northern Ireland have the power to revise the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Code of Practice (“the Code”) so that persons aged 16 and over who lack capacity to make decisions about their care and treatment can give valid consent to their confinement through the expression of their wishes and feelings?
Last updated: 29 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0178
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COMMERCIAL
Hearing listedCase summary:Does the obligation on the seller to pay “due compensation” in Clause 14 of the SALEFORM 2012 standard form contract entitle the buyer to loss of bargain compensation?
Last updated: 29 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0105
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Was the Secretary of State (“SSEFRA”) wrong to approve a compulsory purchase order in a form in which the rights authorised to be compulsorily acquired appear to include an unbounded private law right to discharge “water, soil and effluent” into a canal, even where the discharge occurs in such a way as to amount to a criminal offence and/or a nuisance?
Last updated: 29 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0119
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Does the judicial review claim fall within the scope of Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention so that the Appellant can access costs protection under Part IX of CPR 46?
Last updated: 29 May 2026
UKSC/2026/0071
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FAMILY
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 29 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0150
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ARBITRATION
Hearing listedCase summary:Can the English courts grant an injunction to restrain proceedings brought under the New York Convention in a foreign court that ostensibly seek partial recognition and enforcement of a London-seated arbitral award?
Last updated: 29 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0149
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Does a director’s duty to act in “good faith” in the best interests of a company under s172(1) Companies Act 2006 require them to act in a way that is objectively honest, or does it suffice that the director subjectively believed that what they were doing was in the best interests of the company?
Last updated: 29 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0138
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Issue 1: What is the meaning and substance of “detention at His Majesty’s pleasure”, the mandatory sentence for those who commit murder while they are children under the age of 18, as provided for by section 259 of the Sentencing Act 2020? Issue 2: Is section 128 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, which inserted sections 27A and 27B into the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997, compatible with articles 5, 7, and 14 (read with article 5), of the European Convention on Human Rights?
Last updated: 29 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0034
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EU LAW
Hearing listedCase summary:Absent a contrary agreement, does section 13 of the State Immunity Act 1978 (“SIA”) prevent an arbitral tribunal from awarding (i) an injunction, and (ii) equitable damages, against a State for its breach of an equitable obligation to arbitrate? Can an arbitral tribunal award equitable compensation against a State for such a breach?
Linked casesLast updated: 29 May 2026
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