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UKSC/2026/0033
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IMMIGRATION
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 26 March 2026
UKSC/2026/0012
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:Whether the state is entitled, in light of Article 1 of the First Protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights (“A1P1”), to deprive a person of their possessions in the public interest without paying, or ensuring they recover, market value for those possessions, in circumstances where the policy objective of the deprivation measure is not undermined or diminished by ensuring market value is recovered.
Last updated: 26 March 2026
UKSC/2026/0006
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EU LAW
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Under the Withdrawal Agreement, is an EU national living in the UK under the pre-settled status scheme eligible for homelessness assistance under the Housing Act 1996? In particular, does Article 13(4) of the Withdrawal Agreement empower the UK to adopt such schemes granting a right to reside “on the basis of” the Withdrawal Agreement to EU citizens who do not satisfy the conditions under Article 13(1)?
Last updated: 26 March 2026
UKSC/2026/0025
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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Does the ‘collapse’ of a party’s expert witness under cross-examination during a planning appeal demonstrate that the party must have behaved unreasonably such that a costs award may be made against them?
Last updated: 26 March 2026
UKSC/2026/0003
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COURT PROCEDURE
Awaiting hearing dateCase summary:If a litigant pays a sum of money owed under a court order, and the court order is subsequently set aside, is the litigant entitled to interest on the sum paid? In this claim, should the respondent therefore have paid interest on the money it held from 2016-2024?
Last updated: 26 March 2026
UKSC/2024/0114
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Did the terms of an agreement between the Appellant and a third-party (the “Appointed Representative Agreement” or “ARA”), which prohibited the third-party from dealing with Retail Clients, also limit the Appellant’s liability for acts and omissions from the third-party conducting business with Retail Clients?
Last updated: 26 March 2026
UKSC/2026/0016
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Was the Afghan Relocation Route policy an unlawful fettering of discretion of a statutory power provided by the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), or was the policy issued in the exercise of prerogative powers?
Last updated: 26 March 2026
UKSC/2022/0019
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TAX
Judgment givenCase summary:Was the Court of Appeal wrong to uphold the order striking out Jersey Choice Limited's claim on the basis the pleadings disclosed no reasonable grounds?
Last updated: 25 March 2026
UKSC/2022/0108
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Judgment givenCase summary:This appeal concerns the application of EU and UK trade mark law to the cross-border marketing and sale of goods on the internet. The question for the Supreme Court is: Where goods marketed and sold on a foreign website are identical to goods for which trade marks are registered in the EU or UK, in what circumstances would the marketing and selling of such goods infringe the EU/UK trade marks?
Last updated: 25 March 2026
UKSC/2022/0145
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PUBLIC LAW/HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether the Review Tribunal (the Tribunal) was entitled to conclude that RM's mental disorder continues to be of a nature or degree warranting his continued detention in hospital for medical treatment (i.e. whether the test for discharge from a Restriction Order under Article 78 of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (the Order) is met).
Linked casesLast updated: 25 March 2026
UKSC/2022/0144
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PUBLIC LAW/HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether the Review Tribunal (the Tribunal) was entitled to conclude that RM's mental disorder continues to be of a nature or degree warranting his continued detention in hospital for medical treatment (i.e. whether the test for discharge from a Restriction Order under Article 78 of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (the Order) is met).
Linked casesLast updated: 25 March 2026
UKSC/2025/0191
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:If a local authority makes a lawful offer of accommodation which it has assessed as suitable for an applicant threatened with homelessness, is that offer rendered unlawful by an earlier failure to carry out an adequate assessment of the applicant’s housing needs?
Last updated: 25 March 2026
UKSC/2022/0037
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INSOLVENCY
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether the Court has the jurisdiction/power to recognise a foreign bankruptcy at common law. This depends on the nature and effect of the choice of law rule of private international law known as the "immovables rule" that, as a matter of English law, a foreign Court has no jurisdiction to make orders in respect of land situated in England and that rights relating to such land are governed exclusively by English law ("Immovables Rule").
Last updated: 25 March 2026
UKSC/2024/0102
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment givenCase summary:Does Regulation 28(3) of the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019/855 (the “Regulations”) prohibit a German bank from discharging payment obligations owed to Irish companies under letters of credit issued as security for agreements to lease aircraft to Russian airlines, where those lease agreements were lawful when entered into and terminated before the payment obligations fell due?
Linked casesLast updated: 25 March 2026
UKSC/2022/0100
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Where the hirer of a car contractually agrees to pay the car hire company a sum for loss of use if the hire car is damaged during the hire period, and the hire car is then damaged due to the negligent driving of a third party, can the hirer recover that contractual liability from the negligent driver (or their insurer)?
Last updated: 25 March 2026
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