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UKSC/2025/0039
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FAMILY
Awaiting judgmentCase summary:Does a court have jurisdiction to set aside a valid adoption order other than by way of appeal?
Last updated: 13 February 2026
UKSC/2026/0017
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 13 February 2026
UKSC/2025/0194
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TORT
Permission to Appeal granted in partCase 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: 13 February 2026
UKSC/2025/0068
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COMMERCIAL
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Whether ‘furlough’ payments made under the Government Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme fall to be deducted from the amount payable in insurance claims for business interruption losses suffered by companies as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Linked casesLast updated: 13 February 2026
UKSC/2025/0067
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COMMERCIAL
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Whether ‘furlough’ payments made under the Government Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme fall to be deducted from the amount payable in insurance claims for business interruption losses suffered by companies as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Linked casesLast updated: 13 February 2026
UKSC/2025/0090
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COMMERCIAL
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:The scope of the doctrine of issue estoppel.
Last updated: 13 February 2026
UKSC/2026/0008
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EMPLOYMENT
Hearing listedCase summary:(1) Does section 47B(2) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (the “ERA”) prevent an employee from bringing a claim under section 47B ERA against a co-worker and/or their employer for being subjected to detriment where that detriment amounts to a dismissal? (2) Were the Court of Appeal bound to apply the earlier decision of Timis v Osipov [2018] EWCA Civ 2321 (“Osipov”) on section 47B(2) ERA in the present appeals and was that decision correctly decided?
Linked casesLast updated: 13 February 2026
UKSC/2026/0005
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EMPLOYMENT
Hearing listedCase summary:(1) Does section 47B(2) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (the “ERA”) prevent an employee from bringing a claim under section 47B ERA against a co-worker and/or their employer for being subjected to detriment where that detriment amounts to a dismissal? (2) Were the Court of Appeal bound to apply the earlier decision of Timis v Osipov [2018] EWCA Civ 2321 (“Osipov”) on section 47B(2) ERA in the present appeals and was that decision correctly decided?
Linked casesLast updated: 13 February 2026
UKSC/2026/0016
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 12 February 2026
UKSC/2025/0004
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Judgment givenCase summary:(1) Is the term ‘POST MILK GENERATION’ a “designation” for the purposes of Article 78 of Parliament and Council Regulation (EU) No. 1308/2013 (as amended) (the “2013 Regulation”) such that Oatly AB could not register it as a trade mark? (2) If considered a “designation” of “milk”, does the term ‘POST MILK GENERATION’ clearly describe a “characteristic quality of the product” so that its use is not prohibited by the 2013 Regulation?
Last updated: 12 February 2026
UKSC/2023/0111
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TORT
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Can a young child claimant recover damages for financial loss caused by her inability to work during the years of expected life she has lost due to the defendant’s clinical negligence (“lost years damages”)?
Last updated: 12 February 2026
UKSC/2026/0001
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LANDLORD AND TENANT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Does the “main housing duty” owed under s193(2) Housing Act 1996 end automatically, or does it require a decision of the local housing authority to that effect? If a decision of the local housing authority is required, must that decision be notified to the applicant together with reasons for reaching that decision and with details of the right to request a review? If the local housing authority has not provided notification (on the assumption that there is an obligation to notify), can that breach be used as a defence by the applicant in possession proceedings?
Last updated: 11 February 2026
UKSC/2026/0015
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 11 February 2026
UKSC/2026/0014
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 11 February 2026
UKSC/2024/0131
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Judgment givenCase summary:Does the statutory restriction on patenting a program for a “program for a computer…as such” apply to artificial neural networks (“ANNs”)? If so, does it prevent the Appellant’s application from being patented?
Last updated: 11 February 2026
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