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UKSC/2024/0131
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Hearing listedCase summary:Does the statutory restriction on patenting a program for a “program for a computer…as such” apply to artificial neural networks (“ANNs”)? If so, does it prevent the Appellant’s application from being patented?
Last updated: 17 July 2025
UKSC/2024/0114
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COMMERCIAL
Hearing listedCase summary:Did the terms of an agreement between the Appellant and a third-party (the “Appointed Representative Agreement” or “ARA”), which prohibited the third-party from dealing with Retail Clients, also limit the Appellant’s liability for acts and omissions from the third-party conducting business with Retail Clients?
Last updated: 17 July 2025
UKSC/2025/0013/A
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Linked casesLast updated: 17 July 2025
UKSC/2025/0066
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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:The Administrative Court and Court of Appeal addressed the question of whether the local planning authority (“LPA”) is required to take into account the potential impact of electromagnetic fields on medical implants when determining a prior approval application for a new telecommunications mast. The Appellant raises the issue of whether prior approval is a definitive legal obligation for all new ground-based telecommunication masts, and whether relevant provisions of the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) should have been applied by the LPA when determining the prior approval application.
Last updated: 17 July 2025
UKSC/2025/0118
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 17 July 2025
UKSC/2024/0088
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CRIME
Judgment scheduledCase summary:(1) Is a LIBOR or EURIBOR submission automatically dishonest if it is influenced by a trading advantage? (2) Must a LIBOR or EURIBOR submission be of the single cheapest rate at which the panel or prime bank could borrow at the time of the submissions or can it be a rate selected from within a range of potential borrowing rates?
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Last updated: 17 July 2025
UKSC/2024/0087
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CRIME
Judgment scheduledCase summary:(1) Is a LIBOR or EURIBOR submission automatically dishonest if it is influenced by a trading advantage? (2) Must a LIBOR or EURIBOR submission be of the single cheapest rate at which the panel or prime bank could borrow at the time of the submissions or can it be a rate selected from within a range of potential borrowing rates?
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Last updated: 17 July 2025
UKSC/2023/0142
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TORT
Judgment scheduledCase summary:(1) Whether a dishonest assistant can be liable in relation to a breach of a constructive trust of secret profits. (2) The extent to which gains from one breach of fiduciary duty can be set off against losses from another connected breach.
Last updated: 17 July 2025
UKSC/2023/0178
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Where information falls within multiple qualified exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“FOIA”), does section 2(2)(b) of FOIA require the public interest in maintaining each of those exemptions to be aggregated (“the cumulative approach”), or does it require the public interest in maintaining each exemption to be considered separately (“the independent approach”)?
Last updated: 17 July 2025
UKSC/2025/0117
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 17 July 2025
UKSC/2024/0043
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TORT
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Where an individual commits an unlawful act due to the alleged negligent failure by another to prevent it but is, at trial, found not guilty by reason of insanity, does the illegality defence apply to bar the individual’s claim against the negligent party in tort?
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Last updated: 17 July 2025
UKSC/2024/0040
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TORT
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Where an individual commits an unlawful act due to the alleged negligent failure by another to prevent it but is, at trial, found not guilty by reason of insanity, does the illegality defence apply to bar the individual’s claim against the negligent party in tort?
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Last updated: 17 July 2025
UKSC/2024/0039
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TORT
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Where an individual commits an unlawful act due to the alleged negligent failure by another to prevent it but is, at trial, found not guilty by reason of insanity, does the illegality defence apply to bar the individual’s claim against the negligent party in tort?
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Last updated: 17 July 2025
UKSC/2025/0043
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase 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: 16 July 2025
UKSC/2025/0042
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DEVOLUTION
Hearing listedCase summary:“Whether the Minister of Health has power to revise the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Code of Practice issued under s.288 of the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (‘the 2016 Act’) so as to provide that, in the context of the delivery of care and treatment, individuals aged 16 and over with impaired decision-making may be understood to be consenting to confinement through the expression of wishes and feelings, so that their circumstances do not fall within the scope of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR)’)”
Last updated: 16 July 2025
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