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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: 23 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0090
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COMMERCIAL
Hearing listedCase summary:The scope of the doctrine of issue estoppel.
Last updated: 23 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0069
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TAX
Hearing listedCase summary:Whether expenditure incurred on studies used to inform the development of wind farms falls within the scope of “qualifying expenditure” for the purposes of the Capital Allowances Act 2001.
Last updated: 22 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0028
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TAX
Hearing listedCase summary:Are certain members of BlueCrest LLP to be treated as employees for tax purposes?
Last updated: 22 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0024
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase summary:The principal issue concerns the validity of a civil penalty notice issued by the Secretary of State for the Home Department under section 15 of the Immigration Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. In view of the requirement under s.15(6)(a) that a notice must “state why the Secretary of State thinks the employer is liable to the penalty”, is the penalty notice invalid if it does not identify which of the grounds in s.15(1) applies (i.e. by specifying the circumstances in which a person subject to immigration control has no right to work)?
Last updated: 22 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0194
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TORT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Is the CPS advocate immune from suit in respect of anything said or done in the course of a bail hearing, including the disclosure of a vulnerable person’s confidential address to their abusive ex-partner? Does that immunity extend to the police, who included the Appellant’s address in the file for the CPS? If the common law immunity does exist and apply, does it bar claims under the Human Rights Act 1998 and Data Protection Act 2018? Did the Court of Appeal err in reinstating the summary disposal of the Appellant’s Human Rights Act claims?
Last updated: 22 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0202
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FAMILY
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:(1) Did the Inner House fail to take account of the fact an adoption order may only be partially effective in the UK and may not be effective in Italy, the state of the child’s continuing nationality? (2) In assessing the welfare of the child, was the Inner House wrong to reject the potential for lesser orders to be made in England, where the child is now habitually resident, that would leave his status and identity intact and consistent with his nationality? (3) Did the Inner House err in its application of article 21 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (the “UNCRC”) by not regarding this as an inter-country adoption?
Last updated: 22 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0039
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FAMILY
Hearing listedCase summary:Does a court have jurisdiction to set aside a valid adoption order other than by way of appeal?
Last updated: 21 January 2026
UKSC/2024/0040
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TORT
Judgment givenCase 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: 21 January 2026
UKSC/2024/0043
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TORT
Judgment givenCase 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?
Linked casesLegal issue
Last updated: 21 January 2026
UKSC/2024/0039
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TORT
Judgment givenCase 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?
Linked casesLast updated: 21 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0201
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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:(1) Is a council’s duty to take such steps as are “reasonably practicable” to investigate nuisance under the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (“the 2011 Act”) objective? (2) Do regulatory duties to eliminate or minimise harm caused by pollution include a duty to assess whether harm is caused by a particular form of emission? (3) Has there been a breach of article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”) protections on the basis of action taken or not taken by the public authorities?
Last updated: 21 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0199
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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Was it unduly burdensome for the Council to issue a caravan site licence with conditions restricting the site to three or six caravans, when the site has planning permission for 60?
Last updated: 20 January 2026
UKSC/2026/0011
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 19 January 2026
UKSC/2024/0130
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment givenCase 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: 19 January 2026
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