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UKSC/2025/0173
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 6 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0115
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COMMERCIAL
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err by implying a term into a contract for the sale of goods to the effect that the price was to be fixed, in the absence of agreement, at a reasonable or market price, notwithstanding the operation of section 8 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ("SOGA") and that the parties agreed to agree a price at a later date?
Last updated: 6 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0105
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:Was the Secretary of State (“SSEFRA”) wrong to approve a compulsory purchase order in a form in which the rights authorised to be compulsorily acquired appear to include an unbounded private law right to discharge “water, soil and effluent” into a canal, even where the discharge occurs in such a way as to amount to a criminal offence and/or a nuisance?
Last updated: 6 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0111
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INSOLVENCY
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal error in holding that: (1) The principal sum under a secured debt, which has fallen due and remains unpaid: a. does not constitute “arrears in respect of secured debt” within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space Moratorium and Mental Health Moratorium) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 (the “Regulations”). b. was “non-eligible debt” within the meaning of regulation 5(4)(a) of the Regulations. c. was not “qualifying debt” within the meaning of regulation 5(1) of the Regulations. d. was not a “moratorium debt” within the meaning of regulation 6 of the Regulations. (2) If the called-in principal sum was a moratorium debt, not finding that the possession proceedings in the County Court were null and void. (3) If the called-in principal sum was not a moratorium debt, not finding that the arrears of interest on the principal sum was a moratorium debt and hat the possession proceedings in the County Court were null and void.
Linked casesLast updated: 6 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0107
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TORT
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Whether the police were under a duty of care to prevent the occurrence of harm to the Appellant because they had a special level of control over the source of the danger and/or because they had assumed a responsibility to protect the Appellant from the danger.
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Last updated: 6 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0104
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INSOLVENCY
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal error in holding that: The principal sum under a secured debt, which has fallen due and remains unpaid, does not constitute “arrears in respect of secured debt” so as to be covered by the protections of a moratorium under regulation 5(4)(a) of the Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space Moratorium and Mental Health Moratorium) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020.
Linked casesLast updated: 6 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0100
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TORT
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:(1) What causal link is required between expenditure and a breach of statutory duty by a public authority to establish “unjustness” for the purposes of a restitution claim? (2) Can a severely disabled child bring a claim in restitution where his parents have met the costs of his care?
Last updated: 6 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0075
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LANDLORD AND TENANT
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Is the Respondent, as lessee, liable to contribute by way of service charge to the costs incurred by the Appellant, as lessor, in repairing the roofs of two properties in Plymouth?
Last updated: 6 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0098
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NEGLIGENCE
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Section 54(4)(a) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (“PACE”) states that “clothes and personal effects may only be seized if the custody officer … believes that the person from whom they are seized may use them” to, among other things, cause physical injury to himself or another person. Does this provision require that the belief held by the custody officer is based on reasonable grounds?
Last updated: 6 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0099
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Were the Appellant’s rights under the European Convention of Human Rights breached by the Police Service of Northern Ireland failing to investigate his allegations of ill treatment by a former partner? Was the Appellant denied a fair hearing?
Last updated: 6 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0094
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INSOLVENCY
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:Can a bankruptcy petition be founded on a foreign judgment which has not been recognised in England and Wales?
Last updated: 6 October 2025
UKSC/2024/0152
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INTERNATIONAL
Hearing listedCase 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: 3 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0034
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EU LAW
Hearing listedCase 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: 3 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0172
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 3 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0123
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Can a local housing authority refuse to provide the appellant with housing on the grounds that he was intentionally homeless because he refused to remain in the accommodation offered, when that accommodation did not have space for his children?
Last updated: 2 October 2025
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