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UKSC/2024/0043
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TORT
Hearing listedCase summary:Where an individual commits an unlawful act due to the alleged negligent failure by another to prevent it but is, at trial, found not guilty by reason of insanity, does the illegality defence apply to bar the individual’s claim against the negligent party in tort?
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Last updated: 16 July 2025
UKSC/2024/0040
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TORT
Hearing listedCase summary:Where an individual commits an unlawful act due to the alleged negligent failure by another to prevent it but is, at trial, found not guilty by reason of insanity, does the illegality defence apply to bar the individual’s claim against the negligent party in tort?
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Last updated: 16 July 2025
UKSC/2024/0039
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TORT
Hearing listedCase summary:Where an individual commits an unlawful act due to the alleged negligent failure by another to prevent it but is, at trial, found not guilty by reason of insanity, does the illegality defence apply to bar the individual’s claim against the negligent party in tort?
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Last updated: 16 July 2025
UKSC/2025/0115
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 15 July 2025
UKSC/2025/0114
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 15 July 2025
UKSC/2025/0059
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CRIME
Awaiting hearing dateCase summary:(1) Do the terms of s.12(1A) of the Terrorism Act 2000 (“the TA”) represent a disproportionate interference with the appellants’ rights under article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”)? In the event that they do, is it possible to read down the terms of the offence to render them compatible? (2) What is the mental element in relation to the offence under s.12(1A)?
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Last updated: 15 July 2025
UKSC/2023/0178
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Where information falls within multiple qualified exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“FOIA”), does section 2(2)(b) of FOIA require the public interest in maintaining each of those exemptions to be aggregated (“the cumulative approach”), or does it require the public interest in maintaining each exemption to be considered separately (“the independent approach”)?
Last updated: 15 July 2025
UKSC/2024/0055
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Should the Secretary of State for Transport’s (“SST”) decision to detain a yacht in London under the UK’s Russian sanctions regime be set aside on (i) human rights, or (ii) public law, grounds?
Linked casesLast updated: 14 July 2025
UKSC/2024/0045
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:(i) Did the Court of Appeal adopt the wrong approach to determining whether the Appellant’s designation was a proportionate interference with his rights under Article 8 and Article 1, Protocol 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”)? (ii) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to conclude that maintaining the Appellant’s designation was not a breach of his rights under Article 8 and Article 1, Protocol 1 of the ECHR?
Linked casesLast updated: 14 July 2025
UKSC/2025/0113
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 14 July 2025
UKSC/2024/1006
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in finding that whether an appeal to the First-tier Tribunal is bound to fail is irrelevant to whether the timing of the appeal complies with the 14-day time limit for appealing a decision of the Secretary of State for the Home Department in circumstances where the Secretary of State’s notice of decision failed to advise the appellant of their right of appeal?
Last updated: 14 July 2025
UKSC/2025/0097
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Can the powers of a custody officer to appoint the time, date and place for a bailee to attend at a police station be exercised without the formal surrender of the bailee under Article 48 of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (“PACE”)?
Last updated: 11 July 2025
UKSC/2024/1003
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COURT PROCEDURE
Hearing listedCase summary:The correct interpretation of sections 6(4) and 11(3) of the Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 (as prior to amendments made by the Prescription Act 2018)
Last updated: 11 July 2025
UKSC/2024/0106
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COMMERCIAL
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Following the Appellants’ breach of contract, was the Respondents’ proper remedy in damages or in debt?
Last updated: 11 July 2025
UKSC/2025/0101
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INSOLVENCY
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Whether a restructuring plan which satisfied all the jurisdictional requirements of Part 26A of the Companies Act 2006 should nevertheless have been declined sanction by the court on the basis that the ‘public interest’ would be better served by the entry of Thames Water Utilities Limited into a special administration regime, notwithstanding that this view was not shared by the Secretary of State or OfWat.
Last updated: 10 July 2025
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