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• UKSC/2025/0185

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  PRIVACY AND INFORMATION

  Michael Farley and 431 others (Respondents) v Paymaster (1836) Limited (trading as Equiniti) (Appellant)
  Hearing listed
  Case summary:

  Does a threshold of seriousness apply to claims for damages under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA 2018”)?

  Last updated: 1 October 2026

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• UKSC/2026/0062

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  CRIME

  R v Field (Respondent)
  Hearing listed
  Case summary:

  Were the directions given to the jury by the trial judge in this case right in law? Did the Court of Appeal correctly understand and apply R v Kennedy (No 2) [2007] UKHL 38, and should the Supreme Court reconsider that decision?

  Last updated: 1 October 2026

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• UKSC/2025/0162

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  PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS

  R (on the application of Campbell) (Appellant) v His Majesty's Attorney General for England and Wales (Respondent)
  Hearing listed
  Case summary:

  (1) Is the exercise of the Attorney General’s power to allow or refuse to allow an application to be made for an inquest to be re-opened amenable to Judicial Review? (2) If so, on what grounds may the Attorney General’s exercise of that power be reviewed?

  Last updated: 1 October 2026

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• UKSC/2018/0074

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  PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS

  R (on the application of DS and others) (Appellants) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Respondent)
  Judgment given
  [2019] UKSC 21
  Case summary:

  See judgment

  Last updated: 1 October 2026

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• UKSC/2018/0061

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  PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS

  R (on the application of DA and others) (Appellants) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Respondent)
  Judgment given
  [2019] UKSC 21
  Case summary:

  See judgment

  Last updated: 1 October 2026

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• UKSC/2018/0004

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  PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS

  R (on the application of Privacy International) (Appellant) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal and others (Respondents)
  Judgment given
  [2019] UKSC 22
  Case summary:

  See judgment

  Last updated: 1 October 2026

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• UKSC/2018/0040

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  PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS

  In the matter of an application by Dennis Hutchings for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland)
  Judgment given
  [2019] UKSC 26
  Case summary:

  See judgment

  Last updated: 1 October 2026

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• UKSC/2017/0175

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  PRIVACY AND INFORMATION

  Lachaux (Respondent) v Independent Print Ltd and another (Appellants)
  Judgment given
  [2019] UKSC 27
  Case summary:

  See judgment

  Last updated: 1 October 2026

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• UKSC/2018/0099

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  ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING

  London Borough of Lambeth (Appellant) v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and others (Respondents)
  Judgment given
  [2019] UKSC 33
  Case summary:

  See judgment

  Last updated: 1 October 2026

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• UKSC/2017/0215

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  PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS

  Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Appellant) v MM (Respondent) (Scotland)
  Judgment given
  [2019] UKSC 34
  Case summary:

  Must the social support needed be contemporaneous with the engagement being supported - does anything that constitutes prompting also constitute social support.

  Last updated: 1 October 2026

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• UKSC/2018/0064

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  PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS

  In the matter of D (A Child)
  Judgment given
  [2019] UKSC 42
  Case summary:

  See judgment

  Last updated: 1 October 2026

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• UKSC/2018/0224

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  PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS

  RR (AP) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Respondent) - The Supreme Court
  Judgment given
  [2019] UKSC 52
  Case summary:

  (1) Whether statutory authorities, including the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal, have the power or duty to calculate entitlement to housing benefit without making deductions for under-occupancy, so as not to violate a claimant’s rights under the European Convention on Human Rights; (2) if so, the extent to which the payment of discretionary housing payments are relevant to the task of the statutory authorities in calculating entitlement.

  Last updated: 1 October 2026

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• UKSC/2018/0007

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  ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING

  R (on the application of Wright) (Respondent) v Resilient Energy Severndale Ltd and Forest of Dean District Council (Appellants)
  Judgment given
  [2019] UKSC 53
  Case summary:

  Whether, on an application for planning permission for a wind turbine proposed to be undertaken by a community benefit society, the distribution to the local community of a community benefit fund derived from the operation of the turbine is, in the circumstances of the case, a material planning consideration which the council could lawfully take into account when considering whether to grant planning permission.

  Last updated: 1 October 2026

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• UKSC/2019/0167

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  ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING

  R (on the application of Fylde Coast Farms Ltd (formerly Oyston Estates Ltd)) v Fylde Borough Council (Respondent)
  Judgment given
  [2021] UKSC 18
  Case summary:

  Whether section 61N of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 should be interpreted to mean that the Appellant’s application for judicial review was made out of time.

  Last updated: 1 October 2026

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• UKSC/2019/0135

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  PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS

  R (on the application of SC, CB and 8 children) (Appellants) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and others (Respondents)
  Judgment given
  [2021] UKSC 26
  Case summary:

  The Supreme Court is asked to decide whether the 'two child limit', a provision of primary legislation which restricts payment of amounts of subsistence benefit for children to the first two children in a family, is incompatible with the Appellants' rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.

  Last updated: 1 October 2026

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