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UKSC/2009/0044
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TAX
Judgment given[2010] UKSC 4Case summary:(1) Whether the disposal of shares in Gray's Group Limited by a director was a disposal giving rise to a charge to tax on employment income in terms of section 446Y of the Income Tax (Employment and Pensions) Act 2003 (as amended by Finance Act 2003) and; (2) Upon what basis the market value of those shares is to be determined for the purposes of section 446Y.
Last updated: 13 September 2026
UKSC/2009/0073
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CRIME
Judgment given[2009] UKSC 14Case summary:(1) Whether, having regard to the scheme of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 in relation to hearsay evidence and articles 6(3) and 6(3)(d) of the European Convention on Human Rights, a conviction based solely or to a decisive degree on hearsay evidence is necessarily unsafe; (2) Whether the only cases in which a conviction based on such evidence is safe is one in which the evidence was admitted because the witness was in fear; (3) The ambit of ‘fear’ for this purpose.
Last updated: 13 September 2026
UKSC/2009/0038
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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING
Judgment given[2009] UKSC 13Case summary:Whether sewerage undertakers have any power under section 106 of the 1991 Act to control the location at which a developer may connect a new development to an existing sewerage network by rejecting the point of connection selected by the developer [‘Point X’] and/or by determining an alternative location [‘Point Y’] at which a connection would be suitable.
Last updated: 13 September 2026
UKSC/2009/0087
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment given[2009] UKSC 11Case summary:Whether the law of trespass, which protects landowners from acts of threatened trespass, can be interpreted so as to require a public body to tolerate acts of trespass by persons who otherwise lack suitable accommodation.
Last updated: 13 September 2026
UKSC/2009/0075
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FAMILY
Judgment given[2009] UKSC 10Case summary:Whether the reference to a "third state" in Article 12(4) of the Council Regulation (EC) No. 2201/2003 (Brussels II Regulation), allowing for prorogation of jurisdiction in care proceedings where it is in the child’s best interests, extends to children who are habitually resident outside of the EU.
Last updated: 13 September 2026
UKSC/2009/0119
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CONSTITUTION
Judgment given[2009] UKSC 9Case summary:(1) Whether the Reform (Sark) Law 2008, retaining the positions of the Seigneur and Seneschal as unelected members of Chief Pleas, breaches article 3 of the First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights ('ECHR'); (2) Whether the prohibition on ‘aliens’ resident on Sark from standing as candidates for election to Chief Pleas breaches article 3 of the First Protocol of the ECHR read alone or in conjunction with article 14; (3) Whether the Human Rights Act 1998 applies to the decisions made by the Respondents because their effect applied to a territory within the jurisdiction of the UK under article 1 of the ECHR as a result of a declaration under article 56 and article 4 of the First Protocol to the ECHR, extending jurisdiction to the Channel Islands.
Last updated: 13 September 2026
UKSC/2009/0052
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EXTRADITION
Judgment given[2010] UKSC 9Case summary:Whether the public interest in honouring extradition treaties is such as to require, in any extradition case, that an appellant must show 'striking and unusual facts' or reach 'a high threshold' if his article 8 claim is to succeed.
Last updated: 11 September 2026
UKSC/2009/0106
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment given[2009] UKSC 8Case summary:Whether, in the case of a dispute as to the age of an individual who claims to be a child, it is for the court (in the absence of any other independent and impartial tribunal) to determine whether that individual is a child for the purpose of section 20(1) of the Children Act 1989.
Last updated: 11 September 2026
UKSC/2009/0098
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IMMIGRATION
Judgment given[2009] UKSC 7Case summary:In the absence of a fresh asylum or human rights claim, is the right of appeal against the Home Office’s refusal to revoke a deportation order exercisable from within the United Kingdom?
Last updated: 11 September 2026
UKSC/2026/0135
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 11 September 2026
UKSC/2026/0134
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Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 11 September 2026
UKSC/2024/0089
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FAMILY
Judgment given[2025] UKSC 26Case summary:When does non-matrimonial property become matrimonial property in the context of financial remedy proceedings, and how should the sharing principle be applied to such property?
Last updated: 10 September 2026
UKSC/2009/0184
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FAMILY
Judgment given[2009] UKSC 17Case summary:The case concerns the proper approach to deciding who has been responsible for harming a child in proceedings taken to protect that child, and others in the family, from harm and the consequences of such a decision.
Last updated: 10 September 2026
UKSC/2009/0070
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment given[2009] UKSC 6Case summary:Whether the Respondent is entitled to assess the fairness of certain charges made by the Appellants under the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contract Regulations 1999.
Last updated: 10 September 2026
UKSC/2009/0050
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment given[2010] UKSC 8Case summary:Whether the decision in Runa Begum v Tower Hamlets London Borough Council (that the review procedure involved in decisions offering homeless persons accommodation was compatible with article 6(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights) applies to a determination where the reviewing officer determines a simple issue of primary fact.
Last updated: 10 September 2026
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