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UKSC/2026/0153
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 13 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0062
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CRIME
Awaiting JudgmentCase 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: 13 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0116
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IMMIGRATION
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:1) Where a person was recognised as a refugee on the basis of one reason (“Reason 1”), but they seek to rely on a second reason (“Reason 2”) to resist revocation of their refugee status, who bears the burden of proof in respect of Reason 2? 2) Where the Upper Tribunal had misunderstood which risk category of the relevant country guidance the Appellant was claiming to be within, was the Court of Appeal entitled to hold that this was not a material error?
Last updated: 13 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0106
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FAMILY
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Was the decision of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland to deny the Appellant father’s application for a Residence Order in respect of the subject child, NI: (i) legally erroneous; (ii) procedurally unfair; or (iii) affected by demonstrable bias in favour of the Respondent mother?
Last updated: 13 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: 13 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0114
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IMMIGRATION
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:What is the correct standard of proof for determining whether an individual can access state protection in their home state, for the purposes of establishing whether their deportation would be a breach of their rights under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”)?
Last updated: 13 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0126
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Is a contractual scheme, entitling a company to recover training costs from an employee after that employee has terminated their employment relationship with the business, unenforceable as an unlawful restraint of trade?
Last updated: 13 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0131
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COMMERCIAL
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Issue: (i) where a mortgagee, by its conduct, has a substantial or operative causal effect in preventing/delaying a mortgagor from redeeming a loan, in what circumstances will equity intervene to make a special order as to interest and thereby disallow interest that is said to have accrued; and (ii) whether a default interest rate in a facility of 4% per month compounded monthly (equivalent to approximately 60% per annum), which is triggered by heterogeneous events of default, is an unenforceable penalty within the meaning of Cavendish Square Holding BV-v-Makdessi [2015] UKSC 67.
Last updated: 13 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0108
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FAMILY
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:1. What is a “judgment” for the purposes of s.40 Constitutional Reform Act 2005? 2. Is a totally without merit certification valid where a jurisdictional objection has been raised but never determined?
Last updated: 13 October 2026
UKSC/2026/0110
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COURT PROCEDURE
Permission to Appeal granted in partCase summary:Does the High Court have the inherent power to make a second order requiring a judgment debtor, or the officer of a judgment debtor, to attend Court for examination as to the means of the judgment debtor to satisfy its judgment debt, in circumstances where the Court has previously made such an order under CPR Part 71 but no longer has the power to make a fresh such order?
Last updated: 12 October 2026
UKSC/2020/0107
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment given[2022] UKSC 27Case summary:The appeal raises questions about the proper approach to granting relief under the doctrine of proprietary estoppel. The Supreme Court is asked to decide: (1) Whether a successful claimant’s expectation, in this case of inheritance of a family farm, was an appropriate starting point when considering a remedy; and (2) Whether the remedy granted, namely payment of a lump sum which would in effect result in the sale of the farm, went beyond what was necessary in the circumstances.
Last updated: 11 October 2026
UKSC/2020/0056
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TORT
Judgment given[2023] UKSC 4Case summary:Whether the Court of Appeal erred in failing to hold that the claimants were entitled to a remedy in the tort of private nuisance by reason of the Tate Modern’s use of the top floor of its Blavatnik Building as a viewing platform.
Last updated: 11 October 2026
UKSC/2018/0129
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EXTRADITION
Judgment given[2022] UKSC 4Case summary:When considering section 26(5) of the Extradition Act 2003, can a distinction properly be drawn between the actions of a person who has done everything reasonably possible to give notice of the appeal and the actions of that person’s solicitor who has not?
Last updated: 11 October 2026
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
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