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UKSC/2025/0145
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Hearing listedCase summary:What is the correct approach that UK courts should adopt when determining fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) terms for global portfolio licences of standard essential patents? Did the Court of Appeal err in reaching its own determination of the FRAND rate in this case, instead of remitting the matter for re-assessment? Did the Court of Appeal err in its approach to the question of payment of royalties on past sales in FRAND licences? Did the Court of Appeal err in its consideration of the effects of parallel foreign patent infringement proceedings?
Linked casesLast updated: 15 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0144
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Hearing listedCase summary:What is the correct approach that UK courts should adopt when determining fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) terms for global portfolio licences of standard essential patents? Did the Court of Appeal err in reaching its own determination of the FRAND rate in this case, instead of remitting the matter for re-assessment? Did the Court of Appeal err in its approach to the question of payment of royalties on past sales in FRAND licences? Did the Court of Appeal err in its consideration of the effects of parallel foreign patent infringement proceedings?
Linked casesLast updated: 15 May 2026
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: 15 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0094
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INSOLVENCY
Hearing listedCase summary:Can a bankruptcy petition be founded on a foreign judgment which has not been recognised in England and Wales?
Linked casesLast updated: 15 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0138
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Issue 1: What is the meaning and substance of “detention at His Majesty’s pleasure”, the mandatory sentence for those who commit murder while they are children under the age of 18, as provided for by section 259 of the Sentencing Act 2020? Issue 2: Is section 128 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, which inserted sections 27A and 27B into the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997, compatible with articles 5, 7, and 14 (read with article 5), of the European Convention on Human Rights?
Last updated: 15 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0149
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Does a director’s duty to act in “good faith” in the best interests of a company under s172(1) Companies Act 2006 require them to act in a way that is objectively honest, or does it suffice that the director subjectively believed that what they were doing was in the best interests of the company?
Last updated: 15 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0150
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ARBITRATION
Hearing listedCase summary:Can the English courts grant an injunction to restrain proceedings brought under the New York Convention in a foreign court that ostensibly seek partial recognition and enforcement of a London-seated arbitral award?
Last updated: 15 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0119
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Does the judicial review claim fall within the scope of Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention so that the Appellant can access costs protection under Part IX of CPR 46?
Last updated: 15 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0105
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Was the Secretary of State (“SSEFRA”) wrong to approve a compulsory purchase order in a form in which the rights authorised to be compulsorily acquired appear to include an unbounded private law right to discharge “water, soil and effluent” into a canal, even where the discharge occurs in such a way as to amount to a criminal offence and/or a nuisance?
Last updated: 15 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0178
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COMMERCIAL
Hearing listedCase summary:Does the obligation on the seller to pay “due compensation” in Clause 14 of the SALEFORM 2012 standard form contract entitle the buyer to loss of bargain compensation?
Last updated: 15 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0170
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LANDLORD AND TENANT
Hearing listedCase summary:(1) Is the lessee under an unregistered long lease a qualifying tenant within the meaning of s75 Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, so that they should be served with a ‘participation notice’ before a right to manage company claims the right to manage the block of flats? (2) Does the failure to serve a participation notice on a qualifying tenant invalidate a claim notice served by the right to manage company?
Last updated: 15 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0034
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EU LAW
Hearing listedCase summary:Absent a contrary agreement, does section 13 of the State Immunity Act 1978 (“SIA”) prevent an arbitral tribunal from awarding (i) an injunction, and (ii) equitable damages, against a State for its breach of an equitable obligation to arbitrate? Can an arbitral tribunal award equitable compensation against a State for such a breach?
Linked casesLast updated: 15 May 2026
UKSC/2025/0164
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Hearing listedCase summary:What is the correct test the courts should adopt when applying the “Ouster Principle” in the context of determining whether a purported easement is capable of forming the subject matter of a grant (and therefore valid)?
Last updated: 15 May 2026
UKSC/2021/0050
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TORT
Judgment givenCase summary:Does pollution caused to land and waterways by an offshore oil spill constitute a continuing nuisance with fresh causes of action accruing until such time as the oil is cleared up, or it eventually disappears of its own accord, in circumstances where the event causing the pollution occurs only once?
Last updated: 15 May 2026
UKSC/2021/0155
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EMPLOYMENT
Judgment givenCase summary:Did the Central Arbitration Committee's refusal to accept the Union's application to be recognised by Deliveroo for collective bargaining interfere with the rights of Deliveroo riders to form and join a trade union under Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights? If so, was this interference justified? Should the courts below have construed section 296(1)(b) of the 1992 Act so as to give effect to Article 11?
Last updated: 15 May 2026
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