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UKSC/2025/0162
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase 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: 22 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0042
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DEVOLUTION
Awaiting JudgmentCase 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: 22 October 2025
UKSC/2024/0117
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COURT PROCEDURE
Judgment givenCase summary:When, if ever, should a court make an award of costs in a foreign currency?
Last updated: 22 October 2025
UKSC/2024/0108
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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING
Judgment givenCase summary:(1) Does Regulation 63 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (“the Habitats Regulations”) require an “appropriate assessment” to be undertaken before a local planning authority decides to discharge conditions requiring the approval of reserved matters in a grant of outline planning permission for that development? (2) What is the effect of a grant of outline planning permission, and what is the impact on that grant of a policy adopted by the government and a change of scientific advice bearing on the application of that policy?”
Last updated: 22 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0169
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INSOLVENCY
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:What is the correct approach to the treatment of creditors who would be “out of the money” (would not receive a payout) in the “relevant alternative” to a restructuring plan sanctioned under Part 26A of the Companies Act 2006?
Last updated: 22 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0167
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:What is the legal test for the right of access to education under Article 2 of the First Protocol to the European Convention of Human Rights? Did the High Court err in not taking into account events occurring after the issue of the claim?
Last updated: 22 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0002
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NEGLIGENCE
Hearing listedCase summary:Does the Damages (Scotland) Act 2011 entitle the relatives of a deceased person to claim damages following his death from asbestos-related mesothelioma, notwithstanding the prior settlement of a separate claim brought by the deceased for other asbestos-related injuries?
Last updated: 22 October 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: 22 October 2025
UKSC/2024/0130
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COMMERCIAL
Hearing listedCase summary:In relation to a contract based on the 2016 edition of the JCT Design and Build Contract, whether – properly construed – a right to terminate under clause 8.9.3 must first have accrued before a contractor can have any right to terminate under clause 8.9.4.
Last updated: 22 October 2025
UKSC/2024/0135
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CRIME
Hearing listedCase 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: 22 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0005
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EU LAW
Hearing listedCase 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: 22 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0059
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CRIME
Hearing listedCase summary:(1) Do the terms of s.12(1A) of the Terrorism Act 2000 (“the TA”) represent a disproportionate interference with the appellants’ rights under article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”)? In the event that they do, is it possible to read down the terms of the offence to render them compatible? (2) What is the mental element in relation to the offence under s.12(1A)?
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Last updated: 22 October 2025
UKSC/2024/0152
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INTERNATIONAL
Hearing listedCase summary:Is a foreign State whose agents, located abroad, cause spyware to be installed remotely on the computers of individuals located in the United Kingdom, causing those individuals psychiatric injury when they discover that the State has been spying on them in this way, entitled to immunity from civil proceedings under section 5 of the State Immunity Act 1978?
Last updated: 22 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0013/A
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in departing from Colton J’s decision to disapply provisions of the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 for breach of the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Linked casesLast updated: 20 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0013
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:In summary, did the Court of Appeal err by holding that: (1) The trial judge at first instance was entitled to disapply provisions of the Legacy Act under Article 2(1) of the Windsor Framework (and the related EU and Treaty mechanisms); (2) The trial judge was wrong to find no violation of the European Convention of Human Rights ("ECHR") with respect to the ability of the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (“ICRIR”) to comply with its obligations under the ECHR.
Linked casesLast updated: 20 October 2025
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