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UKSC/2018/0197
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IMMIGRATION
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether the Secretary of State’s published policy in Chapter 55 of the Enforcement Instructions and Guidance satisfied the requirements of Article 2(n) and Article 28 of the Dublin III Regulation. If not, whether damages are payable in respect of the detention of the Respondents either for the tort of false imprisonment or pursuant to EU law under the principle established by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Factortame case.
Last updated: 1 April 2025
UKSC/2025/0032
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:The lawfulness of the designation of an ‘associate’ under the UK sanctions regime in the light of human rights law.
Last updated: 1 April 2025
UKSC/2025/0056
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 1 April 2025
UKSC/2019/0057
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CRIME
Judgment givenCase summary:(a) Whether it is unlawful for the Secretary of State to exercise his power to provide mutual legal assistance so as to provide evidence to a foreign state that will facilitate the imposition of the death penalty in that state on the individual in respect of whom the evidence is sought. (b) Whether (and if so in what circumstances) it is lawful under Part 3 of the Data Protection Act 2018, as interpreted in light of relevant provisions of European Union data protection law, for enforcement authorities in the UK to transfer personal data to law enforcement authorities abroad for use in capital criminal proceedings.
Last updated: 1 April 2025
UKSC/2018/0177
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EU LAW
Judgment givenCase summary:Does the High Court have the power to stay the enforcement of an award given in accordance with the procedure in the International Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID)?
Last updated: 1 April 2025
UKSC/2018/0140
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IMMIGRATION
Judgment givenCase summary:The Supreme Court is asked to consider (1) whether R (on the application of Draga) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 842 (“Draga”) was correctly decided and (2) whether the Court of Appeal in this case was, in fact, bound for the reasons it gave to follow Draga.
Last updated: 1 April 2025
UKSC/2018/0211
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HOUSING, LANDLORD & TENANT
Judgment givenCase summary:Is a landlord of a block of flats entitled, without breach of covenant, to grant a licence to a lessee to carry out work which would breach an absolute covenant contained in a lease of her flat, where the leases of other flats on similar terms require the landlord to enforce covenants at the request of a lessee of one of those other flats?
Last updated: 1 April 2025
UKSC/2018/0218
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TAX
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether customs duty is irrecoverable in circumstances where communication of the customs debt occurred three years after the debt was incurred, in light of the time limit imposed by Article 221(3) of the “Customs Code” (Regulation EEC/2913/92, as amended by Regulation EC/2700/2000).
Last updated: 1 April 2025
UKSC/2019/0032
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PUBLIC LAW/HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Where a life prisoner convicted of inter alia terrorist murders secures early release on licence under the Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998 (“1998 Act”) and such licence is revoked due to fundamental breaches occasioned by further terrorist offending while on release and the prisoner is convicted of such further offences, receiving no effective additional sentence,[ ] having regard to the provisions of the 1998 Act and the Life Sentences (NI) Order 2001 (“2001 Order”) is the prisoner’s judicially determined “tariff” to include the period of his release on licence?
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UKSC/2019/0033
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PUBLIC LAW/HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Where a life prisoner convicted of inter alia terrorist murders secures early release on licence under the Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998 (“1998 Act”) and such licence is revoked due to fundamental breaches occasioned by further terrorist offending while on release and the prisoner is convicted of such further offences, receiving no effective additional sentence,[ ] having regard to the provisions of the 1998 Act and the Life Sentences (NI) Order 2001 (“2001 Order”) is the prisoner’s judicially determined “tariff” to include the period of his release on licence?
Linked casesLast updated: 1 April 2025
UKSC/2025/0055
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Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 1 April 2025
UKSC/2019/0042
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Judgment givenCase summary:1. Does the English court have the power or jurisdiction, or is it a proper exercise of any such power or jurisdiction without the parties’ agreement:to grant an injunction restraining infringement of a UK SEP unless the defendant enters into a global licence under a multinational patent portfolio; to determine the rates/terms for such a licence; and to declare that such rates/terms are FRAND? 2. If the answer to (i) is "yes", is England the proper forum for such a claim in the circumstances of the Conversant proceedings?3. What is the meaning and effect of the non-discrimination component of the FRAND undertaking and does it mean that materially the same licence terms as offered to Samsung must be offered to Huawei in the circumstances of the Unwired case?4. Does the CJEU’s decision in Huawei v ZTE mean that a SEP owner is entitled to seek an injunction restraining infringement of those SEPs in circumstances such as those of the Unwired case??
Linked casesLast updated: 1 April 2025
UKSC/2019/0041
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Judgment givenCase summary:1. Does the English court have the power or jurisdiction, or is it a proper exercise of any such power or jurisdiction without the parties’ agreement:to grant an injunction restraining infringement of a UK SEP unless the defendant enters into a global licence under a multinational patent portfolio; to determine the rates/terms for such a licence; and to declare that such rates/terms are FRAND? 2. If the answer to (i) is "yes", is England the proper forum for such a claim in the circumstances of the Conversant proceedings?3. What is the meaning and effect of the non-discrimination component of the FRAND undertaking and does it mean that materially the same licence terms as offered to Samsung must be offered to Huawei in the circumstances of the Unwired case?4. Does the CJEU’s decision in Huawei v ZTE mean that a SEP owner is entitled to seek an injunction restraining infringement of those SEPs in circumstances such as those of the Unwired case?
Linked casesLast updated: 1 April 2025
UKSC/2018/0214
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Judgment givenCase summary:1. Does the English court have the power or jurisdiction, or is it a proper exercise of any such power or jurisdiction without the parties’ agreement:to grant an injunction restraining infringement of a UK SEP unless the defendant enters into a global licence under a multinational patent portfolio; to determine the rates/terms for such a licence; and to declare that such rates/terms are FRAND? 2. If the answer to (i) is "yes", is England the proper forum for such a claim in the circumstances of the Conversant proceedings?3. What is the meaning and effect of the non-discrimination component of the FRAND undertaking and does it mean that materially the same licence terms as offered to Samsung must be offered to Huawei in the circumstances of the Unwired case?4. Does the CJEU’s decision in Huawei v ZTE mean that a SEP owner is entitled to seek an injunction restraining infringement of those SEPs in circumstances such as those of the Unwired case?
Linked casesLast updated: 1 April 2025
UKSC/2019/0193
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CONSTITUTIONS
Judgment givenCase summary:1) Whether the challenge to the decision of the Prime Minister to advise Her Majesty the Queen to prorogue Parliament is justiciable in the courts. 2) Whether the appeal is in any event academic, given Parliamentary sittings before the UK’s exit from the EU on 31 October 2019? 3) If the appeal is justiciable, whether the Prime Minister’s advice was lawful.
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Last updated: 31 March 2025
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