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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: 1 June 2026
UKSC/2021/0047
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TAX
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether the Court of Appeal erred in finding that News Corp's supplies of digital issues of The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun and The Sun on Sunday were not supplies of "newspapers" within the meaning of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (the "VAT Act") such that they could not be zero-rated for Value Added Tax ("VAT") during the period 30 August 2010 – 4 December 2016.
Last updated: 1 June 2026
UKSC/2021/0038
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PUBLIC LAW/HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether the death of a disabled woman who was deprived of her liberty engaged the state’s obligation to protect life under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, therefore requiring an inquest jury to make findings regarding the circumstances by which the death occurred.
Last updated: 1 June 2026
UKSC/2020/0133
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PUBLIC LAW/HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment givenCase summary:To have capacity to decide to have sexual relations with another person, does a person need to understand that the other person must have the capacity to consent to the sexual activity and must in fact consent before and throughout the sexual activity?
Last updated: 1 June 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: 1 June 2026
UKSC/2026/0008
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EMPLOYMENT
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:(1) Does section 47B(2) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (the “ERA”) prevent an employee from bringing a claim under section 47B ERA against a co-worker and/or their employer for being subjected to detriment where that detriment amounts to a dismissal? (2) Were the Court of Appeal bound to apply the earlier decision of Timis v Osipov [2018] EWCA Civ 2321 (“Osipov”) on section 47B(2) ERA in the present appeals and was that decision correctly decided?
Linked casesLast updated: 1 June 2026
UKSC/2026/0005
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EMPLOYMENT
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:(1) Does section 47B(2) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (the “ERA”) prevent an employee from bringing a claim under section 47B ERA against a co-worker and/or their employer for being subjected to detriment where that detriment amounts to a dismissal? (2) Were the Court of Appeal bound to apply the earlier decision of Timis v Osipov [2018] EWCA Civ 2321 (“Osipov”) on section 47B(2) ERA in the present appeals and was that decision correctly decided?
Linked casesLast updated: 1 June 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/2025/0178
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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
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