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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: 24 February 2026
UKSC/2025/0185
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PRIVACY AND INFORMATION
Hearing listedCase 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: 24 February 2026
UKSC/2024/0020
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Case closedCase summary:Does section 26 of the Competition Act 1998 apply extraterritorially? Can a notice under section 26 of the Competition Act 1998 be served on, and bind, an undertaking as a whole, such that any entity which forms a part of the addressee undertaking is required to produce information or documents over which it has no corporate, contractual, or legal control?
Last updated: 24 February 2026
UKSC/2024/0019
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Case closedCase summary:Does section 26 of the Competition Act 1998 apply extraterritorially? Can a notice under section 26 of the Competition Act 1998 be served on, and bind, an undertaking as a whole, such that any entity which forms a part of the addressee undertaking is required to produce information or documents over which it has no corporate, contractual, or legal control?
Last updated: 24 February 2026
UKSC/2026/0021
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Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 24 February 2026
UKSC/2026/0012
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Whether the state is entitled, in light of Article 1 of the First Protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights (“A1P1”), to deprive a person of their possessions in the public interest without paying, or ensuring they recover, market value for those possessions, in circumstances where the policy objective of the deprivation measure is not undermined or diminished by ensuring market value is recovered.
Last updated: 23 February 2026
UKSC/2025/0079
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CRIME
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Do the terms of section 12(1A) of the Terrorism Act 2000 represent a disproportionate interference with the appellants’ right to freedom of expression under article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights? If so, is it possible to read down the terms of the offence to make them compatible?
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Last updated: 23 February 2026
UKSC/2025/0059
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CRIME
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Do the terms of section 12(1A) of the Terrorism Act 2000 represent a disproportionate interference with the appellants’ right to freedom of expression under article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights? If so, is it possible to read down the terms of the offence to make them compatible?
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Last updated: 23 February 2026
UKSC/2024/0135
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CRIME
Judgment scheduledCase summary:What are the circumstances in which a District Judge in Magistrates’ Courts in Northern Ireland may reopen a case in which sentence has been passed in order to impose a different outcome, under the power the power of the Magistrates’ Court to ‘vary or rescind’ a sentence or order under Article 158A of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981?
Last updated: 19 February 2026
UKSC/2024/0047
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COURT PROCEDURE
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Is there a statutory limitation period applicable to a claim under section 994 of the Companies Act 2006? If so, what is that period?
Last updated: 19 February 2026
UKSC/2026/0020
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 19 February 2026
UKSC/2023/0111
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TORT
Judgment givenCase 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: 18 February 2026
UKSC/2026/0019
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 18 February 2026
UKSC/2024/0156
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INTERNATIONAL
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:(1) Does Article 54(1) of the ICSID Convention, properly interpreted, constitute a submission to the jurisdiction by prior agreement for the purposes of section 2(2) State Immunity Act 1978 (“SIA 1978”)? (2) Does section 9 of the SIA 1978 require UK courts to satisfy themselves that there exists a valid arbitration agreement, such that the appellant state was not immune from the adjudicative jurisdiction of the English courts pursuant to section 1(1) SIA?
Linked casesLast updated: 18 February 2026
UKSC/2026/0010
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Is a person “intentionally homeless” for the purposes of section 191 Housing Act 1996 in circumstances where they are served with a landlord’s notice to vacate and subsequently decline an offer of accommodation from the local authority?
Last updated: 18 February 2026
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