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UKSC/2025/0183
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 5 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0129
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:(1) Was Mr Lutz supplied to work “temporarily” for Ryanair for the purposes of Regulation 3(1)(a) of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010? (2) Was Mr Lutz a crew member “employed by” Storm Global Limited within the meaning of regulation 3 of the Civil Aviation (Working Time) Regulations 2004?
Linked casesLast updated: 5 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0128
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:(1) Was Mr Lutz supplied to work “temporarily” for Ryanair for the purposes of Regulation 3(1)(a) of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010? (2) Was Mr Lutz a crew member “employed by” Storm Global Limited within the meaning of regulation 3 of the Civil Aviation (Working Time) Regulations 2004?
Linked casesLast updated: 5 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0153
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COMMERCIAL
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:In deciding whether to grant permission to appeal from the Competition Appeal Tribunal in respect of the unfair price charged for a generic medicine, did the Court of Appeal err in failing to admit new evidence as to the price at which the drug had sold after the Tribunal’s hearing?
Last updated: 5 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0043
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:(1) Was it procedurally unfair for the Secretary of State for the Home Department to deprive Mr Kolicaj of his British citizenship without affording him an opportunity to make representations? (2) Did the Court of Appeal act in excess of jurisdiction by quashing the deprivation order made against Mr Kolicaj?
Last updated: 5 November 2025
UKSC/2024/0048
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TAX
Judgment givenCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err: (i) in its conclusions as to the objective and correct interpretation of the legislation applicable to determining whether the Trust was a taxable person for the purposes of value added tax (“VAT”). (ii) in its understanding of the facts that need to be proved in order to determine whether there is a significant distortion of competition under the applicable legislation.
Last updated: 5 November 2025
UKSC/2023/0123
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CRIME
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:1. Is the Scottish courts’ current approach to the admission of evidence concerning the complainer’s sexual history in trials for sexual offences liable to infringe defendants’ rights to a fair trial under article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights? 2. Were Mr Keir’s rights under article 6 infringed at his trial?
Linked casesLast updated: 4 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0120
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COMMERCIAL
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:(1) Are holders of a cryptocurrency known as Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) who claim that BSVs value reduced after it was delisted by cryptocurrency exchanges required to mitigate their loss by selling BSV and buying another similar cryptocurrency? (2) Can BSV holders claim for the lost chance for BSV to develop into a top tier cryptocurrency?
Last updated: 4 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0149
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Does a director’s duty to act in “good faith” in the best interests of a company under s172(1) Companies Act 2006 require them to act in a way that is objectively honest, or does it suffice that the director subjectively believed that what they were doing was in the best interests of the company?
Last updated: 4 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0172
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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:The Appellant illegally felled trees on land in respect of which planning permission is likely to be granted in future. The Forestry Commission issued a restocking notice requiring the Appellant to replant the illegally felled trees and maintain them for ten years. This will delay the proposed development. In considering an appeal against the restocking notice, should the Secretary of State have taken account of the public interest in development?
Last updated: 4 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0166
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FAMILY
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Did the Inner House err in finding that a children’s hearing acted lawfully in determining that the child’s father was not a “relevant person”, as defined in the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Review of Contact Directions and Definition of Relevant Person) Order 2013 (“the 2013 Order”)?
Last updated: 4 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0171
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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err: (i) in joining the Secretary of State for the Home Department to proceedings concerning the accommodation of asylum seekers in a hotel; (ii) in granting an interim injunction restraining that accommodation; (iii) in the process followed to determine these issues?
Last updated: 4 November 2025
UKSC/2023/0107
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CRIME
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:1. Is the Scottish courts’ current approach to the admission of evidence concerning the complainer’s credibility or reliability in trials for sexual offences liable to infringe defendants’ rights to a fair trial under article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights? 2. Were Mr Daly’s rights under article 6 infringed at his trial?
Linked casesLast updated: 4 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0182
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 4 November 2025
UKSC/2024/0106
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COMMERCIAL
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:(1) Whether there is a principle in English law that a condition in a contract, which would give rise to a debt owed by a party if fulfilled, should be treated as fulfilled (or dispensed with or waived) where that party wrongfully prevents the condition from being satisfied? (2) If this principle is not part of English law, does contractual interpretation or an implied term lead to the same result on the facts? (3) At what point do the deposits accrue as a debt under the contracts concerned?
Last updated: 4 November 2025
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