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- Akbars Restaurant (Middlesbrough) Limited (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent)
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
27 July 2026
Lord Sales,
Lord Leggatt,
Lady Rose,
Lord Richards,
Lady Simler
This appeal concerns the validity of a civil penalty notice issued by the Secretary of State for the Home Department under section 15 of the Immigration Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. In view of the requirement under s.15(6)(a) that a notice must “state why the Secretary of State thinks the employer is liable to the penalty”, is the penalty notice invalid if it does not identify which of the grounds in s.15(1) applies (i.e. by specifying the circumstances in which a person subject to immigration control has no right to work)?
- The Kingdom of Bahrain (Appellant) v Shehabi and another (Respondents)
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
27 July 2026
Lord Lloyd-Jones,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Leggatt,
Lord Burrows,
Lady Simler
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?
- AXA Insurance UK PLC and another (Appellants) v Commissioners of Inland Revenue and another (Respondents)
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
27 July 2026
Lord Hodge,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Leggatt,
Lady Rose,
Lord Richards
(1) Did the Prudential test case determine the date on which the limitation period starts to run for the purposes of section 32(1)(c) of the Limitation Act 1980 for all claims within the in the GLO? (2) Was the Court of Appeal correct to exercise its discretion under CPR 19.23(1)(a) to order that the determination in the Prudential test case of the Set-Off issue was not binding on the appellants’ claims?
- Valeriy Ernestovich Drelle (Respondent) v Servis-Terminal LLC (In Liquidation in the Russian Federation) (Appellant)
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
27 July 2026
Lord Sales,
Lord Briggs,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Stephens,
Lord Doherty
Can a bankruptcy petition be founded on a foreign judgment which has not been ‘recognised’ in England and Wales?
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- R v Sheikh and others (Respondents)
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
27 July 2026
Lord Reed,
Lord Lloyd-Jones,
Lord Burrows,
Lady Rose,
Lady Simler
Did the Court of Appeal err in its interpretation and application of section 5 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (“DVCVA”)?
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