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UKSC/2025/0178
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 29 October 2025
UKSC/2024/0048
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TAX
Judgment givenCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err: (i) in its conclusions as to the objective and correct interpretation of the legislation applicable to determining whether the Trust was a taxable person for the purposes of value added tax (“VAT”). (ii) in its understanding of the facts that need to be proved in order to determine whether there is a significant distortion of competition under the applicable legislation.
Last updated: 29 October 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: 28 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0170
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LANDLORD AND TENANT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:(1) Is the lessee under an unregistered long lease a qualifying tenant within the meaning of s75 Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, so that they should be served with a ‘participation notice’ before a right to manage company claims the right to manage the block of flats? (2) Does the failure to serve a participation notice on a qualifying tenant invalidate a claim notice served by the right to manage company?
Last updated: 27 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0157
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Does paragraph 9 of Schedule 8 to the Building Safety Act 2022 (“BSA 2022”) preclude the recovery of legal or professional costs by way of service charge from leaseholders holding a qualifying lease where those costs were incurred before the BSA 2022 came into effect?
Last updated: 24 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0105
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Awaiting hearing dateCase summary:Was the Secretary of State (“SSEFRA”) wrong to approve a compulsory purchase order in a form in which the rights authorised to be compulsorily acquired appear to include an unbounded private law right to discharge “water, soil and effluent” into a canal, even where the discharge occurs in such a way as to amount to a criminal offence and/or a nuisance?
Last updated: 24 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0177
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 24 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0176
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 24 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0042
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DEVOLUTION
Awaiting JudgmentCase 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: 23 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0162
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase 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: 22 October 2025
UKSC/2024/0117
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COURT PROCEDURE
Judgment givenCase summary:When, if ever, should a court make an award of costs in a foreign currency?
Last updated: 22 October 2025
UKSC/2024/0108
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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING
Judgment givenCase summary:(1) Does Regulation 63 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (“the Habitats Regulations”) require an “appropriate assessment” to be undertaken before a local planning authority decides to discharge conditions requiring the approval of reserved matters in a grant of outline planning permission for that development? (2) What is the effect of a grant of outline planning permission, and what is the impact on that grant of a policy adopted by the government and a change of scientific advice bearing on the application of that policy?”
Last updated: 22 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0169
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INSOLVENCY
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:What is the correct approach to the treatment of creditors who would be “out of the money” (would not receive a payout) in the “relevant alternative” to a restructuring plan sanctioned under Part 26A of the Companies Act 2006?
Last updated: 22 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0167
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:What is the legal test for the right of access to education under Article 2 of the First Protocol to the European Convention of Human Rights? Did the High Court err in not taking into account events occurring after the issue of the claim?
Last updated: 22 October 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: 22 October 2025
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