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UKSC/2025/0185
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PRIVACY AND INFORMATION
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Does a threshold of seriousness apply to claims for damages under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA 2018”)?
Last updated: 10 October 2026
UKSC/2025/0162
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase summary:(1) Is the exercise of the Attorney General’s power to allow or refuse to allow an application to be made for an inquest to be re-opened amenable to Judicial Review? (2) If so, on what grounds may the Attorney General’s exercise of that power be reviewed?
Last updated: 9 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0062
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CRIME
Hearing listedCase summary:Were the directions given to the jury by the trial judge in this case right in law? Did the Court of Appeal correctly understand and apply R v Kennedy (No 2) [2007] UKHL 38, and should the Supreme Court reconsider that decision?
Last updated: 9 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0113
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TORT
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:1) Did ZZZ remain a lawful visitor to whom a duty of care is owed under the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957, or did he become a trespasser when he engaged in intoxicated horseplay on the second-floor landing from which he subsequently fell? 2) Should the damages that ZZZ received have been subject to a reduction for contributory negligence?
Last updated: 9 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0112
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Did the conduct of the proceedings in the Industrial Tribunal and Court of Appeal breach the Appellant’s right to a fair hearing under article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights and constitute a failure to make reasonable adjustments under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995? Did the Court of Appeal fail to correctly apply the relevant legal tests when assessing the Appellant’s claims of procedural unfairness, discrimination due to disability, and apparent bias?
Last updated: 9 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0107
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Was the non-consensually conceived exception to the two-child limit on the ‘child element’ of Universal Credit (“UC”) unlawfully discriminatory on the basis that: (i) it contained differential ordering provisions for the non-consensually conceived and non-parental exceptions; and (ii) it made no special provision in respect of third or later (consensually conceived) children born to mothers of non-consensually conceived children?
Last updated: 9 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0103
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COMMERCIAL
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:To refuse the Charterers’ orders to load the cargo, was it sufficient for the Owners to judge a real risk of sanctions liability, or did they need to judge that sanctions liability was more likely than not to arise?
Last updated: 9 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0095
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FAMILY
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:When deciding whether there is a more appropriate forum for determining a divorce, can the English courts take into account historical connections to England and Wales or only current circumstances?
Last updated: 9 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0090
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:In a trial for the offence of attempted murder in which the defendant, who was voluntarily intoxicated on drugs, admits that he was able to form and had formed the specific intent necessary for the offence of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, must the judge direct the jury on the effect of voluntary intoxication in accordance with R v Sheehan & Moore (1975) 1 WLR 739?
Last updated: 9 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0088
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Are steps to be taken by a local housing authority to secure social housing under Part 6 of the Housing Act 1996 for a homeless applicant within the scope of section 189A(4)(b) and (6)(c) of the 1996 Act?
Last updated: 9 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0070
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LANDLORD AND TENANT
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:Is the appellant prevented from serving notice under section 21 Housing Act 1988 in circumstances where he failed in 2014 to give the respondent the pre-occupation gas safety certificate?
Linked casesLast updated: 8 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0130
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NEGLIGENCE
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Does the Respondent, a statutory regulator, owe a duty of care to avoid foreseeable psychiatric injury or suicide to a professional whom it is investigating, in respect of the manner and timing of the notification to that professional that an investigation is being carried out?
Last updated: 8 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0125
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COMMERCIAL
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal apply the correct legal threshold for appellate review when declining to interfere with the trial judge’s findings of Ukrainian law? If a defendant misappropriates two sums of money from the claimant, and uses the proceeds of the second misappropriation to repay the amount taken by way of the first misappropriation, does the claimant still have a cause of action in respect of the first misappropriation? What is the correct legal test to determine whether a claimant has abandoned his pleaded case in favour of a new and unpleaded case?
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Last updated: 8 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0102
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TORT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal apply the correct legal threshold for appellate review when declining to interfere with the trial judge’s findings of Ukrainian law? If a defendant misappropriates two sums of money from the claimant, and uses the proceeds of the second misappropriation to repay the amount taken by way of the first misappropriation, does the claimant still have a cause of action in respect of the first misappropriation? What is the correct legal test to determine whether a claimant has abandoned his pleaded case in favour of a new and unpleaded case?
Linked casesLegal Issue
Last updated: 8 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0152
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 8 October 2026
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