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UKSC/2025/0201
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 16 December 2025
UKSC/2024/0083
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment scheduledCase summary:What is the correct test to be applied when a court judicially reviews a decision by a coroner to disclose gists of information over which Public Interest Immunity (“PII”) is asserted by a Minister on behalf of the Crown?
Last updated: 16 December 2025
UKSC/2025/0188
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Does the procedural/investigative obligation arising under article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”) apply to the inquest into the death of the appellant’s son, who was killed by British soldiers in 1986, as a matter of UK domestic law? Did the Judge err in dismissing the appellant’s application for judicial review? Did the Court of Appeal err in dismissing the appellant’s appeal against the Judge’s order?
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Last updated: 16 December 2025
UKSC/2025/0182
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Does the Secretary of State have the power to prosecute persons alleged to have committed offences contrary to the Welfare at Time of Killing (England) Regulations 2015? If the Secretary of State does have that power, could it assign that power to the Crown Prosecution Service under s3(2)(g) Prosecution of Offences Act 1985?
Last updated: 16 December 2025
UKSC/2024/0086
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TAX
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Can Hotel La Tour Ltd recover the VAT on professional fees it incurred to assist with the sale of shares in its managed subsidiary, Hotel La Tour Birmingham Ltd?
Last updated: 16 December 2025
UKSC/2025/0165
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:Did individuals charged with an offence contrary to section 78(1) and (4) of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Court Act 2022 (“the 2022 Act”) of the 2022 Act have “no case to answer”, on the basis that there was no evidence before the jury of an essential element of the offence?
Last updated: 16 December 2025
UKSC/2025/0125
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NEGLIGENCE
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:(i) In a loss of chance claim, should the benefit received by the claimant reduce the damages that they are owed by the full amount of the benefit or should the benefit be discounted by the probability of the loss of chance occurring? (ii) Can the facts of the present case be distinguished from the case of Hartle v Laceys?
Linked casesLast updated: 12 December 2025
UKSC/2025/0113
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NEGLIGENCE
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:(i) In what circumstances should a benefit received by the claimant from a breach of contract or duty reduce the damages that they are awarded for such breach? (ii) If a party is free to sell the property affected by the breach of contract or duty once completed but does not intend to, does this decision prevent further recovery from the underlying breach?
Linked casesLast updated: 12 December 2025
UKSC/2025/0120
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COMMERCIAL
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:(1) Are holders of a cryptocurrency known as Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) who claim that BSVs value reduced after it was delisted by cryptocurrency exchanges required to mitigate their loss by selling BSV and buying another similar cryptocurrency? (2) Can BSV holders claim for the lost chance for BSV to develop into a top tier cryptocurrency?
Last updated: 12 December 2025
UKSC/2025/0161
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Was Moderna’s patent relating to Covid-19 vaccines invalid, or was the information within the patent already within the public domain and therefore not patentable?
Linked casesLast updated: 12 December 2025
UKSC/2025/0160
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Was Moderna’s patent relating to Covid-19 vaccines invalid, or was the information within the patent already within the public domain and therefore not patentable?
Linked casesLast updated: 12 December 2025
UKSC/2020/0168
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment givenCase summary:What is the meaning and effect of paragraphs 20 and 27 of the Electronic Communications Code as set out in Schedule 3A to the Communications Act 2003?
Last updated: 12 December 2025
UKSC/2021/0051
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment givenCase summary:Does the Upper Tribunal have jurisdiction to confer rights over land in favour of an operator under the Electronic Communications Code (the Code) where that operator has a Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (LTA 1954) protected tenancy and is in occupation of the land?
Last updated: 12 December 2025
UKSC/2019/0225
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment givenCase summary:Does the Upper Tribunal have jurisdiction to confer rights, under the Electronic Communications Code ("the Code"), in relation to a particular site, on the Claimant in circumstances where a third party, namely Vodaphone, is currently in occupation of the site?
Last updated: 12 December 2025
UKSC/2023/0177
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COURT PROCEDURE
Judgment scheduledCase summary:(1) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to overturn the decision of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (the “CAT”) on the basis that the CAT’s decision incorrectly relied on its provisional assessment of the merits in determining whether proceedings should be certified as opt-in or opt-out? (2) In deciding to overturn the decision of the CAT, was the Court of Appeal wrong to place reliance on factors such as the likelihood of claims proceeding if not certified as opt-out and certain principles underlying the statutory scheme for collective proceedings?
Linked casesLast updated: 12 December 2025
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