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UKSC/2025/0070
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 24 April 2025
UKSC/2025/0027
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Does the reference to “the activities of trade unions” in Regulation 3(2)(a) of the Employment Relations Act 1999 (Blacklists) Regulations 2010 (“the Blacklisting Regulations”) include participation in industrial action?
Last updated: 24 April 2025
UKSC/2024/0057
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CRIME
Judgment scheduledCase summary:The issues in this appeal can be grouped into three questions: (1)As certified by the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland, is the interpretation of a defence statement provided under Part 1 of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 a question of law for the trial judge? (2)Was the search of the appellant’s property lawful and if not what are the consequences of that unlawfulness? (3)Does the application to the appellant of the sentencing regime provided for by article 15A of the Terorism Act 2002 breach Article 7 of the European Convention of Human Rights?
Linked casesLast updated: 24 April 2025
UKSC/2024/0058
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CRIME
Judgment scheduledCase summary:The issues in this appeal can be grouped into three questions: (1) As certified by the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland, is the interpretation of a defence statement provided under Part 1 of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 a question of law for the trial judge? (2) Was the search of the appellant’s property lawful and if not what are the consequences of that unlawfulness? (3) Does the application to the appellant of the sentencing regime provided for by article 15A of the Terorism Act 2002 breach Article 7 of the European Convention of Human Rights?
Linked casesLast updated: 24 April 2025
UKSC/2025/0053
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:What is the correct interpretation of the word “exercise” or “exercised” in a shareholders’ agreement in determining whether the appellant is entitled to exercise multiple or only one call notice to acquire shares
Last updated: 24 April 2025
UKSC/2018/0224
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PUBLIC LAW/HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment givenCase 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: 24 April 2025
UKSC/2019/0028
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CRIME
Judgment givenCase summary:What is the correct interpretation of the term ‘person acting in an official capacity’ in section 134(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988? In particular, does it include someone who acts otherwise than in a private and individual capacity for or on behalf of an organisation or body which exercises or purports to exercise the functions of government over the civilian population in the territory which it controls and in which the relevant conduct occurs?
Last updated: 24 April 2025
UKSC/2025/0052
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COURT PROCEDURE
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Whether the Appellant can bring representative proceedings under CPR 19.8 on behalf of institutional and retail investors in the Respondents who claim under sections 90 and 90A and Schedule 10A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (“FSMA”) in respect of alleged fraudulent statements and dishonest omissions in published information to pursue a representative action seeking declarations as to common issues relating to the Respondents.
Last updated: 24 April 2025
UKSC/2025/0048
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TAX
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err by misunderstanding the requirements of effective judicial protection and adopting an incorrect approach to conforming interpretation?
Last updated: 23 April 2025
UKSC/2025/0040
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Where an employee manifests a belief which is protected under the Equality Act 2010 in an objectively objectionable manner, is adverse treatment by their employer “because of” their protected belief (as opposed to the objectionable feature), and therefore direct discrimination, unless the employer can objectively justify that treatment?
Last updated: 23 April 2025
UKSC/2025/0069
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 23 April 2025
UKSC/2025/0068
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 23 April 2025
UKSC/2025/0067
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COMMERCIAL
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 23 April 2025
UKSC/2015/0246
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EMPLOYMENT
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether, under regulation 8(2) of the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 (PTWR), time starts to run from the end of the relevant pensionable service or from the date when the judge retires and begins to receive his pension.
Last updated: 23 April 2025
UKSC/2018/0109
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment givenCase summary:(1) Does the concept of ‘statutory incompatibility’ apply to prevent land from being registered as a village green where it is held for general statutory purposes? (2) What is the correct approach to alleged errors of fact in the public law arena? (3) Does an application for registration of land as a village green have to show that there was a geographical spread of users from the locality in question? (4) Does a qualifying locality under section 15 of the Commons Act 2006 have to have remained the same legal entity throughout the relevant 20-year period? (5) What standard of reasoning is required by a Registering Authority which disagrees with an Inspector’s views?
Linked casesLast updated: 23 April 2025
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