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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/2025/0043
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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: 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
UKSC/2025/0002
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NEGLIGENCE
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Does the Damages (Scotland) Act 2011 entitle the relatives of a deceased person to claim damages following his death from asbestos-related mesothelioma, notwithstanding the prior settlement of a separate claim brought by the deceased for other asbestos-related injuries?
Last updated: 4 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0181
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 4 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0145
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:What is the correct approach that UK courts should adopt when determining fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) terms for global portfolio licences of standard essential patents? Did the Court of Appeal err in reaching its own determination of the FRAND rate in this case, instead of remitting the matter for re-assessment? Did the Court of Appeal err in its approach to the question of payment of royalties on past sales in FRAND licences? Did the Court of Appeal err in its consideration of the effects of parallel foreign patent infringement proceedings?
Linked casesLast updated: 4 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0144
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:What is the correct approach that UK courts should adopt when determining fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) terms for global portfolio licences of standard essential patents? Did the Court of Appeal err in reaching its own determination of the FRAND rate in this case, instead of remitting the matter for re-assessment? Did the Court of Appeal err in its approach to the question of payment of royalties on past sales in FRAND licences? Did the Court of Appeal err in its consideration of the effects of parallel foreign patent infringement proceedings?
Linked casesLast updated: 4 November 2025
UKSC/2025/0146
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:The Court of Appeal concluded that AstraZeneca’s patent on a drug was invalid and that there was no prospect of AstraZeneca successfully appealing to the Supreme Court. Did the Court of Appeal err in nonetheless granting AstraZeneca a ‘holdover injunction’ preventing the sale of generic versions of the drug for 14 days while AstraZeneca applied to the Supreme Court?
Linked casesLast updated: 4 November 2025
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