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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/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: 23 April 2025
UKSC/2018/0224
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PUBLIC LAW/HUMAN RIGHTS
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: 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
UKSC/2024/0058
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CRIME
Awaiting JudgmentCase 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: 23 April 2025
UKSC/2024/0057
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CRIME
Awaiting JudgmentCase 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: 23 April 2025
UKSC/2025/0066
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 22 April 2025
UKSC/2025/0065
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 22 April 2025
UKSC/2023/0053
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FAMILY
Judgment givenCase summary:Was the Court of Appeal right, in balancing the respective article 8 and article 10 rights, to discharge the relevant Reporting Restriction Orders ("RROs")?
Linked casesLast updated: 17 April 2025
UKSC/2023/0052
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FAMILY
Judgment givenCase summary:On what basis can injunctions, granted in connection with proceedings initiated to determine whether it is in a child’s best interests that life-sustaining treatment should be withdrawn, be continued once those proceedings have ended?
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Last updated: 17 April 2025
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