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UKSC/2024/0152
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INTERNATIONAL
Hearing listedCase summary:Is a foreign State whose agents, located abroad, cause spyware to be installed remotely on the computers of individuals located in the United Kingdom, causing those individuals psychiatric injury when they discover that the State has been spying on them in this way, entitled to immunity from civil proceedings under section 5 of the State Immunity Act 1978?
Last updated: 3 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0034
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EU LAW
Hearing listedCase summary:Absent a contrary agreement, does section 13 of the State Immunity Act 1978 (“SIA”) prevent an arbitral tribunal from awarding (i) an injunction, and (ii) equitable damages, against a State for its breach of an equitable obligation to arbitrate? Can an arbitral tribunal award equitable compensation against a State for such a breach?
Linked casesLast updated: 3 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0100
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TORT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:(1) What causal link is required between expenditure and a breach of statutory duty by a public authority to establish “unjustness” for the purposes of a restitution claim? (2) Can a severely disabled child bring a claim in restitution where his parents have met the costs of his care?
Last updated: 3 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0172
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 3 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0123
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Can a local housing authority refuse to provide the appellant with housing on the grounds that he was intentionally homeless because he refused to remain in the accommodation offered, when that accommodation did not have space for his children?
Last updated: 2 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0146
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:The Court of Appeal concluded that AstraZeneca’s patent on a drug was invalid and that there was no prospect of AstraZeneca successfully appealing to the Supreme Court. Did the Court of Appeal err in nonetheless granting AstraZeneca a ‘holdover injunction’ preventing the sale of generic versions of the drug for 14 days while AstraZeneca applied to the Supreme Court?
Linked casesLast updated: 1 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0142
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:The Court of Appeal concluded that AstraZeneca’s patent on a drug was invalid and that there was no prospect of AstraZeneca successfully appealing to the Supreme Court. Did the Court of Appeal err in nonetheless granting AstraZeneca a ‘holdover injunction’ preventing the sale of generic versions of the drug for 14 days while AstraZeneca applied to the Supreme Court?
Linked casesLast updated: 1 October 2025
UKSC/2025/0114
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COURT PROCEDURE
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Issue 1: Were the proceedings of the Inner House of the Court of Session compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”) articles 6, 8, and 9? Issue 2: Did the Inner House err in finding that the respondent did not violate ECHR articles 6 and 14, its First Additional Protocol (“AP1”) article 2, and the Companies Act 2006 section 248?
Last updated: 1 October 2025
UKSC/2013/0030
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Judgment givenCase summary:See judgment
Last updated: 30 September 2025
UKSC/2025/0118
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:(1) Was the Vale of Glamorgan Council entitled to refuse to allow the parents of AY, a child with additional learning needs, to be accompanied by a solicitor of their choosing at a meeting to review the management of AY’s learning needs? (2) Did the Court of Appeal err in declining to decide whether the Vale of Glamorgan Council’s refusal was Wednesbury unreasonable on the basis that the question had become academic?
Last updated: 30 September 2025
UKSC/2025/0138
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase 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: 30 September 2025
UKSC/2025/0127
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TAX
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Where a payment is made as part of a tax avoidance arrangement, what is the test for determining whether that arrangement is a means of providing a reward, recognition or a loan “in connection with” a person’s employment or prospective employment for the purposes of section 554A(1)(c) Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003? Was the Upper Tribunal entitled to interfere with the First-Tier Tribunal’s finding that a payment made for tax avoidance purposes was made “wholly and exclusively for the purposes of … trade” within section 54 Corporation Tax Act 2009?
Last updated: 30 September 2025
UKSC/2025/0124
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INSOLVENCY
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:(1) Do the appellants require leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal? (2) Was the appellants’ appeal to the Court of Appeal made within the applicable time limit?
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Last updated: 30 September 2025
UKSC/2025/0122
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EMPLOYMENT
Appeal issuedCase 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: 30 September 2025
UKSC/2025/0119
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase 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: 30 September 2025
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