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UKSC/2024/0103
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COMMERCIAL
Hearing listedCase 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: 24 September 2025
UKSC/2024/0102
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COMMERCIAL
Hearing listedCase 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: 24 September 2025
UKSC/2025/0013
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase summary:In summary, did the Court of Appeal err by holding that: (1) The trial judge at first instance was entitled to disapply provisions of the Legacy Act under Article 2(1) of the Windsor Framework (and the related EU and Treaty mechanisms); (2) The trial judge was wrong to find no violation of the European Convention of Human Rights ("ECHR") with respect to the ability of the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (“ICRIR”) to comply with its obligations under the ECHR.
Linked casesLast updated: 24 September 2025
UKSC/2025/0042
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DEVOLUTION
Hearing listedCase summary:Does the Minister of Health for Northern Ireland have the power to revise the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Code of Practice (“the Code”) so that persons aged 16 and over who lack capacity to make decisions about their care and treatment can give valid consent to their confinement through the expression of their wishes and feelings?
Last updated: 24 September 2025
UKSC/2025/0002
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NEGLIGENCE
Hearing listedCase 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: 24 September 2025
UKSC/2025/0043
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase 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: 24 September 2025
UKSC/2024/0130
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COMMERCIAL
Hearing listedCase summary:In relation to a contract based on the 2016 edition of the JCT Design and Build Contract, whether – properly construed – a right to terminate under clause 8.9.3 must first have accrued before a contractor can have any right to terminate under clause 8.9.4.
Last updated: 24 September 2025
UKSC/2024/0146
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COMMERCIAL
Hearing listedCase summary:(1) What is the true scope of, and the proper limits on, the statutory power of the FCA to impose a single-firm redress requirement under s.55L of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (“FSMA”)? (2) What is the scope of the jurisdiction of the Upper Tribunal, on a reference under FSMA, to allow the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) to depart by amendment from the case it has put to a regulated firm in its decision and/or supervisory notices?
Last updated: 24 September 2025
UKSC/2024/0135
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CRIME
Hearing listedCase summary:Does the power of the Magistrates’ Court to ‘vary or rescind’ a sentence or order under Article 158A of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 include the power to make a new sentence or other order independent of and additional to a previous sentence or order of that court?
Last updated: 24 September 2025
UKSC/2025/0005
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EU LAW
Hearing listedCase 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: 24 September 2025
UKSC/2025/0059
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CRIME
Hearing listedCase 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: 24 September 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: 24 September 2025
UKSC/2024/0155
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INTERNATIONAL
Hearing listedCase summary:(1) Did the Court of Appeal err in law by finding that Article 54(1) of the ICSID Convention, properly interpreted, constitutes a submission to the jurisdiction by prior agreement for the purposes of s2(2) State Immunity Act 1978 (“SIA”). (2) (For the First Appellant only): Did Fraser J err in law by finding that there was a valid arbitration agreement between Spain and the First Respondents for the purposes of s9(1) SIA, such that Spain was not immune from the adjudicative jurisdiction of the English courts pursuant to s1(1) SIA.
Last updated: 24 September 2025
UKSC/2024/0156
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INTERNATIONAL
Hearing listedCase summary:(1) Did the Court of Appeal err in law by finding that Article 54(1) of the ICSID Convention, properly interpreted, constitutes a submission to the jurisdiction by prior agreement for the purposes of s2(2) State Immunity Act 1978 (“SIA”). (2) (For the First Appellant only): Did Fraser J err in law by finding that there was a valid arbitration agreement between Spain and the First Respondents for the purposes of s9(1) SIA, such that Spain was not immune from the adjudicative jurisdiction of the English courts pursuant to s1(1) SIA.
Linked casesLast updated: 24 September 2025
UKSC/2025/0161
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Linked casesLast updated: 24 September 2025
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