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UKSC/2022/0037
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INSOLVENCY
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether the Court has the jurisdiction/power to recognise a foreign bankruptcy at common law. This depends on the nature and effect of the choice of law rule of private international law known as the "immovables rule" that, as a matter of English law, a foreign Court has no jurisdiction to make orders in respect of land situated in England and that rights relating to such land are governed exclusively by English law ("Immovables Rule").
Last updated: 25 March 2026
UKSC/2024/0102
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment givenCase summary:Does Regulation 28(3) of the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019/855 (the “Regulations”) prohibit a German bank from discharging payment obligations owed to Irish companies under letters of credit issued as security for agreements to lease aircraft to Russian airlines, where those lease agreements were lawful when entered into and terminated before the payment obligations fell due?
Linked casesLast updated: 25 March 2026
UKSC/2022/0100
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Where the hirer of a car contractually agrees to pay the car hire company a sum for loss of use if the hire car is damaged during the hire period, and the hire car is then damaged due to the negligent driving of a third party, can the hirer recover that contractual liability from the negligent driver (or their insurer)?
Last updated: 25 March 2026
UKSC/2024/0103
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment givenCase summary:Does Regulation 28(3) of the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019/855 (the “Regulations”) prohibit a German bank from discharging payment obligations owed to Irish companies under letters of credit issued as security for agreements to lease aircraft to Russian airlines, where those lease agreements were lawful when entered into and terminated before the payment obligations fell due?
Linked casesLast updated: 25 March 2026
UKSC/2026/0032
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Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 24 March 2026
UKSC/2026/0022
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the appellant breach s151 Greater London Authority Act 1999 by deciding to remove a Low Traffic Neighbourhood scheme which had been included in its approved local implementation plan for the delivery of the Mayor of London’s transport strategy in its area?
Last updated: 24 March 2026
UKSC/2026/0017
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did Stonewall Equality Ltd cause Garden Court Chambers to discriminate against Ms Bailey contrary to section 111(2) of the Equality Act 2010? What is the correct approach to causation for the purposes of section 111(2) of the Equality Act 2010?
Last updated: 23 March 2026
UKSC/2026/0020
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INSOLVENCY
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:When determining the existence of a “transaction at an undervalue” entered into by a company under s238 Insolvency Act 1986, is the only relevant “transaction” one to which the debtor company is a party, or might the “transaction” also include a wider arrangement of which those dealings are an inextricable part? When applying the defence in s238(5)(b) Insolvency Act 1986, must the transaction be a “necessary part” of the wider arrangement for that wider arrangement to be relevant? What is the test for determining whether another transaction is “consideration for” the transaction said to have been entered into at an undervalue?
Last updated: 18 March 2026
UKSC/2023/0025
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TORT
Judgment givenCase summary:How should a court assess damages for pain, suffering and loss of amenity ("PSLA") in the tort of negligence, where the claimant suffered PSLA caused by both: (a) a whiplash injury ("WLI") which comes within the scope of the Civil Liability Act 2018 (the "2018 Act") and therefore attracts a fixed "tariff award"; and (b) a non-whiplash injury ("NWLI") which does not attract a tariff award?
Last updated: 18 March 2026
UKSC/2026/0031
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 18 March 2026
UKSC/2025/0050
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LANDLORD AND TENANT
Awaiting judgmentCase summary:Whether a local authority’s duty to house homeless applicants under section 193 of the Housing Act 1996 ends by operation of law or whether the local authority is required to make a decision that the duty has ended.
Last updated: 18 March 2026
UKSC/2022/0162
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether the silver and the ship carrying it fell within the following provision of the State Immunity Act 1978 section 10(4)(a): "both the cargo and the ship carrying it were, at the time when the cause of action arose, in use or intended for use for commercial purposes" such that the Republic of South Africa is not immune to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom in respect of Argentum's salvage claim.
Last updated: 17 March 2026
UKSC/2022/0103
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EXTRADITION
Judgment givenCase summary:(1) For a requested person to have deliberately absented himself from trial for the purposes of section 20(3) Extradition Act 2003, must the requesting authority prove that he has actual knowledge that he could be convicted and sentenced in absentia? (2) Where the requesting authority asserts that it can be demonstrated by inference that a requested person could reasonably foresee that he could be convicted and sentenced in absentia, must the inference be the only reasonable inference?
Last updated: 17 March 2026
UKSC/2022/0127
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EXTRADITION
Judgment givenCase summary:(1) Would a requested person be entitled to a retrial or (on appeal) to a review amounting to a retrial where the law of the requesting state confers a right to retrial which depends on a finding by a judicial authority, in the requesting state, as to whether the requested person was deliberately absent from his trial? (2) Would a requested person be entitled to a retrial or (on appeal) to a review amounting to a retrial where it is not possible for a judge to say that a finding of deliberate absence by a judicial authority, in the requesting state, is "theoretical" or "so remote that it can be discounted"?
Last updated: 17 March 2026
UKSC/2025/0081
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LANDLORD AND TENANT
Hearing listedCase summary:In what circumstances can a party to a contract recover damages for a breach of that contract in respect of losses that were sustained not by the contracting party itself but by its subsidiary?
Last updated: 16 March 2026
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