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UKSC/2025/0150
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ARBITRATION
Hearing listedCase summary:Can the English courts grant an injunction to restrain proceedings brought under the New York Convention in a foreign court that ostensibly seek partial recognition and enforcement of a London-seated arbitral award?
Last updated: 9 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0122
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EMPLOYMENT
Hearing listedCase summary:Does Regulation 5 of the Part-Time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 (the “Part-Time Workers Regulations”) apply if a worker’s part-time status is an effective cause, but not the sole cause, of their less favourable treatment?
Last updated: 9 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0094
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INSOLVENCY
Hearing listedCase summary:Can a bankruptcy petition be founded on a foreign judgment which has not been recognised in England and Wales?
Last updated: 9 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0138
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Issue 1: What is the meaning and substance of “detention at His Majesty’s pleasure”, the mandatory sentence for those who commit murder while they are children under the age of 18, as provided for by section 259 of the Sentencing Act 2020? Issue 2: Is section 128 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, which inserted sections 27A and 27B into the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997, compatible with articles 5, 7, and 14 (read with article 5), of the European Convention on Human Rights?
Last updated: 9 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0119
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Does the judicial review claim fall within the scope of Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention so that the Appellant can access costs protection under Part IX of CPR 46?
Last updated: 9 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0144
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Hearing listedCase summary:What is the correct approach that UK courts should adopt when determining fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) terms for global portfolio licences of standard essential patents? Did the Court of Appeal err in reaching its own determination of the FRAND rate in this case, instead of remitting the matter for re-assessment? Did the Court of Appeal err in its approach to the question of payment of royalties on past sales in FRAND licences? Did the Court of Appeal err in its consideration of the effects of parallel foreign patent infringement proceedings?
Linked casesLast updated: 9 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0145
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Hearing listedCase summary:What is the correct approach that UK courts should adopt when determining fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) terms for global portfolio licences of standard essential patents? Did the Court of Appeal err in reaching its own determination of the FRAND rate in this case, instead of remitting the matter for re-assessment? Did the Court of Appeal err in its approach to the question of payment of royalties on past sales in FRAND licences? Did the Court of Appeal err in its consideration of the effects of parallel foreign patent infringement proceedings?
Linked casesLast updated: 9 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0055/A
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COMMERCIAL
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Was the Court of Appeal wrong to conclude that (i) informed consent to the payment of the commission had not been obtained, and (ii) that the limitation period only started to run from the date of payment of the commission rather than the date of entry into the contract?
Linked casesCross Appeal
Last updated: 9 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0055
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COMMERCIAL
Appeal issuedCase summary:(1) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to distinguish between a “half secret’” and a “fully secret” commission for the purpose of determining whether the commission should be treated as a bribe that attracts restitutionary liability for the amount of the bribe? (2) Alternatively, if “half secret” commissions are to be treated distinctly from “fully secret” commissions, was the Court of Appeal wrong to apply a test of dishonesty at all and, in any event, a test which is inconsistent with the decision in Hurstanger and which required more than that the commission-payer knew of the existence of a fiduciary relationship?
Linked casesCross Appeal
Last updated: 9 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0161
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Was Moderna’s patent relating to Covid-19 vaccines invalid, or was the information within the patent already within the public domain and therefore not patentable?
Linked casesLast updated: 9 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0160
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Was Moderna’s patent relating to Covid-19 vaccines invalid, or was the information within the patent already within the public domain and therefore not patentable?
Linked casesLast updated: 9 January 2026
UKSC/2024/0130
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment scheduledCase 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: 9 January 2026
UKSC/2025/0039
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FAMILY
Hearing listedCase summary:Does a court have jurisdiction to set aside a valid adoption order other than by way of appeal?
Last updated: 9 January 2026
UKSC/2026/0004
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 6 January 2026
UKSC/2026/0003
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 6 January 2026
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