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UKSC/2025/0030
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:The scope of section 41 of the Equality Act 2010 as to claims brought by outsourced workers (against a principal) in respect of the terms of their employment (by a contractor/supplier).
Last updated: 7 May 2025
UKSC/2025/0019
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COURT PROCEDURE
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Whether England or Malaysia is the appropriate forum in which to determine the Respondents’ claims.
Last updated: 7 May 2025
UKSC/2025/0021
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EU LAW
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:In what circumstances should courts in this jurisdiction have regard to and choose to follow a judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) handed down after IP completion day (ie 31 December 2020), pursuant to section 6(2) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“EUWA 2018”)?
Linked casesLast updated: 7 May 2025
UKSC/2025/0020
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EU LAW
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:In what circumstances should courts in this jurisdiction have regard to and choose to follow a judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) handed down after IP completion day (ie 31 December 2020), pursuant to section 6(2) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“EUWA 2018”)?
Linked casesLast updated: 7 May 2025
UKSC/2025/0031
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EU LAW
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Did the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) determine that a res judicata created by an arbitration award cannot permit non-recognition of a foreign judgment in England on the grounds of public policy under Article 34(1) of Regulation (EC) No. 44/2001 (“Brussels I”)? If the CJEU did not determine the point, can such an award permit non-recognition of a judgment under Article 34(1)?
Linked casesLast updated: 7 May 2025
UKSC/2025/0034
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EU LAW
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase 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: 7 May 2025
UKSC/2025/0026
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COMMERCIAL
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:In summary, did the Court of Appeal err by holding that: (1) Insurers are liable for post-Period of Insurance losses; (2) The insurers’ primary obligation is to prevent the occurrence of an insured event. (3) The insurers breached their contracts with Sky by their failure to prevent water entering the cassettes and damaging the timbers.
Last updated: 7 May 2025
UKSC/2025/0023
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LANDLORD AND TENANT
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Can a tenant in local authority accommodation who uses the property for limited purposes and does not sleep there nevertheless satisfy the “tenant condition” in section 81 of the Housing Act 1985 (“the 1985 Act”) for the purposes of exercising the right to buy, if they only ever intend to recommence occupation of the property as a principal home once they have exercised that right?
Last updated: 7 May 2025
UKSC/2025/0025
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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:(1) Whether the fields on the Appellant’s farm were uncultivated when the Respondent sought an injunction to prevent the Appellant from ploughing the fields and damaging the archaeological heritage they contained? (2) Whether the Respondent was entitled to require the Appellant to provide further information before determining his application for consent to plough the fields? (3) Whether the grant of the injunction preventing the Appellant from ploughing the fields was a breach of his human rights, in particular articles 6, 7 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the “ECHR”) and article 1 of the First Protocol of the ECHR?
Last updated: 7 May 2025
UKSC/2025/0024
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase 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: 7 May 2025
UKSC/2025/0014
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LANDLORD AND TENANT
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Whether a landlord who serves a notice under section 83ZA of the Housing Act 1985 may apply to amend existing proceedings to allow reliance on a mandatory ground for possession, or whether such a landlord must begin fresh proceedings in order to rely on the mandatory ground.
Last updated: 7 May 2025
UKSC/2023/0034
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INSOLVENCY
Judgment givenCase summary:UKSC 2023/0033: Is it possible to make a person liable as a party to the carrying on of a business for fraudulent purposes (under Section 213 of the Insolvency Act 1986) if they did not exercise management or control of the company in question? UKSC 2023/0034: Where a claimant company has been struck off and then subsequently restored to the register of companies, what is required for the limitation period to be extended (pursuant to Section 32 of the Limitation Act 1980) on the basis that it could not with reasonable diligence have discovered a fraud during the period it was dissolved?
Linked casesLast updated: 7 May 2025
UKSC/2023/0033
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INSOLVENCY
Judgment givenCase summary:UKSC 2023/0033: Is it possible to make a person liable as a party to the carrying on of a business for fraudulent purposes (under Section 213 of the Insolvency Act 1986) if they did not exercise management or control of the company in question? UKSC 2023/0034: Where a claimant company has been struck off and then subsequently restored to the register of companies, what is required for the limitation period to be extended (pursuant to Section 32 of the Limitation Act 1980) on the basis that it could not with reasonable diligence have discovered a fraud during the period it was dissolved?
Linked casesLast updated: 7 May 2025
UKSC/2018/0014
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EMPLOYMENT
Judgment givenCase summary:(i) Whether the Appellant worked under a contract which falls within the meaning of the applicable statutory definition of ‘worker’ under s.230(3)(b) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (“ERA”), such that she is eligible to bring a whistleblowing claim against the Respondent; (ii) Whether the Appellant is eligible to bring her claim as a Crown employee under s.191 ERA; (iii) Whether the domestic statutory definition of ‘worker’ and/or ‘Crown employment’ must be interpreted purposively in order to give effect to rights under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”), or Article 14 ECHR in conjunction with Article 10.
Last updated: 7 May 2025
UKSC/2018/0117
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment givenCase summary:Where a liability insurer was contractually obliged to indemnify its insured against the costs of defending claims against it by third parties, in what circumstances is it appropriate to make an order pursuant to section 51 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 (the “1981 Act”) the effect of which is to impose on a liability insurer, an extra-contractual liability to pay those third parties’ costs of bringing the claims?
Last updated: 7 May 2025
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