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UKSC/2025/0164
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:What is the correct test the courts should adopt when applying the “Ouster Principle” in the context of determining whether a purported easement is capable of forming the subject matter of a grant (and therefore valid)?
Last updated: 22 July 2026
UKSC/2026/0105
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 22 July 2026
UKSC/2025/0058/A
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Do the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction to determine, at the request of an implementer, what terms are fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) for a licence to patents which have been declared as essential to a technological standard (called “SEPs”) where the relevant licence is offered by an intermediary as part of a pool or platform of SEPs?
Linked casesLast updated: 22 July 2026
UKSC/2025/0058
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Do the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction to determine, at the request of an implementer, what terms are fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) for a licence to patents which have been declared as essential to a technological standard (called “SEPs”) where the relevant licence is offered by an intermediary as part of a pool or platform of SEPs?
Linked casesLast updated: 22 July 2026
UKSC/2025/0024
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment scheduled[2026] UKSC 26Case summary:This appeal 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: 22 July 2026
UKSC/2025/0005
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EU LAW
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Was the Court of Appeal correct to hold that (A) whether the claims are time-barred has not been finally determined in the Prudential test case, and should be determined in the present proceedings by applying the law as it stands now (“Limitation Issue”); (B) GREA is not entitled to a claim in restitution for payment of unlawful advance corporation tax utilised against lawful tax or repaid before the issue of its claim (“Set-off Issue”); and (C) by 1 April 2010, the Appellants had not pleaded a claim in restitution for the recovery of unlawful tax paid as a result of their inability to offset unused double taxation relief credit (“Pleading Issue”)?
Last updated: 22 July 2026
UKSC/2025/0094
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INSOLVENCY
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Can a bankruptcy petition be founded on a foreign judgment which has not been ‘recognised’ in England and Wales?
Linked casesLast updated: 22 July 2026
UKSC/2024/0152
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INTERNATIONAL
Judgment scheduled[2026] UKSC 25Case summary:Is a foreign State whose agents, located abroad, cause spyware to be installed remotely on the computers of individuals located in the United Kingdom, causing those individuals psychiatric injury when they discover that the State has been spying on them in this way, entitled to immunity from civil proceedings under section 5 of the State Immunity Act 1978?
Last updated: 22 July 2026
UKSC/2025/0178
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment given[2026] UKSC 23Case summary:Does the obligation on the Sellers to pay “due compensation” to the Buyers for “their loss and for all expenses together with interest” in clause 14 of the 2012 version of the Norwegian Saleform (the “NSF”) standard form contract entitle the Buyers to recover loss of bargain damages in the absence of a repudiatory breach of contract when they terminate the contract?
Last updated: 22 July 2026
UKSC/2025/0050
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LANDLORD AND TENANT
Judgment given[2026] UKSC 22Case summary:Does a local authority’s duty to house homeless applicants under section 193(2) of the Housing Act 1996 (“Housing Act”) end automatically upon the applicant accepting or rejecting an offer of accommodation made under section 193(7AA)?
Last updated: 22 July 2026
UKSC/2026/0104
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 22 July 2026
UKSC/2026/0099
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Was the decision of the Secretary of State for the Home Department to proscribe Palestine Action under section 3 of the Terrorism Act 2000 lawful?
Last updated: 22 July 2026
UKSC/2026/0103
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 21 July 2026
UKSC/2026/0089
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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Does the Supreme Court have jurisdiction to determine an appeal against the refusal by the Court of Appeal of an application for extension of time to file an appeal, where the underlying application for permission to appeal is also refused without an assessment of its merits?
Last updated: 21 July 2026
UKSC/2024/0117
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COURT PROCEDURE
Judgment given[2025] UKSC 36Case summary:When, if ever, should a court make an award of costs in a foreign currency?
Last updated: 21 July 2026
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