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UKSC/2025/0048
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 21 March 2025
UKSC/2025/0042
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DEVOLUTION
Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 21 March 2025
UKSC/2025/0030
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:The scope of section 41 of the Equality Act 2010 as to claims brought by outsourced workers (against a principal) in respect of the terms of their employment (by a contractor/supplier).
Last updated: 21 March 2025
UKSC/2024/1008
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in concluding that the principle in R v Bouchereau (C30/77) [1978] QB 372 does not apply if a person is subject to the highest level of protection against removal conferred by the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 and can only be deported on imperative grounds of public security?
Last updated: 21 March 2025
UKSC/2024/0065
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TAX
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Is the effect of section 43 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 that no VAT is chargeable on an intra-group supply of services even where the supplier has left the group by the time consideration for the supply is the subject of a VAT invoice and paid?
Last updated: 20 March 2025
UKSC/2019/0013
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NEGLIGENCE
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether the Respondent can recover damages for expenses of surrogacy arrangements which she intended to make in the UK or elsewhere. Whether it is correct to differentiate between “own egg” and “donor egg” surrogacies in awarding damages for such surrogacy expenses.
Last updated: 20 March 2025
UKSC/2023/0121
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Is it lawful for a local authority's constitution to restrict voting by members on a deferred application for planning permission to those who had been present at the meeting(s) at which the application had previously been considered?
Last updated: 20 March 2025
UKSC/2025/0014
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LANDLORD AND TENANT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Whether a landlord who serves a notice under section 83ZA of the Housing Act 1985 may apply to amend existing proceedings to allow reliance on a mandatory ground for possession, or whether such a landlord must begin fresh proceedings in order to rely on the mandatory ground.
Last updated: 20 March 2025
UKSC/2018/0077
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ENVIRONMENT/PLANNING
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether the appellant council misapplied paragraph 90 of the National Planning Policy Framework when considering mineral extraction in the Green Belt.
Last updated: 20 March 2025
UKSC/2018/0164
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TORT
Judgment givenCase summary:Is a defendant employer liable for sexual assaults committed by a medical practitioner in the course of medical examinations carried out at the employer’s request either before or during the claimant’s employment?
Last updated: 20 March 2025
UKSC/2018/0030
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DEVOLUTION
Judgment givenCase summary:A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland of devolution issues to the Supreme Court pursuant to Paragraph 34 of Schedule 10 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 Preliminary Hearing: Issues (1) Whether the Reference raises a devolution issue (per Schedule 10, paragraph 1 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998); (2) Specifically: a. does the Department for Communities’ issuing of lists that give effect to orders made by the Secretary of State commencing universal credit provisions in Northern Ireland constitute an “act” under s. 24(1) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998? b. does the Reference raise a question of whether the Department has failed to comply with a Convention right under s. 24(1)(a)?
Last updated: 20 March 2025
UKSC/2018/0159
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IMMIGRATION
Judgment givenCase summary:1. Where the Competent Authority for the purposes of the European Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (ECAT) has determined that a person is not a victim of trafficking, what effect does this have on the jurisdiction of a tribunal hearing an appeal against a decision to remove that person to decide whether a person is a victim of trafficking? 2. Where a tribunal decides that a person is the victim of trafficking, what impact does this have on the lawfulness of the decision to remove the person by reference to article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and applicable policy?
Last updated: 20 March 2025
UKSC/2023/0154
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COURT PROCEDURE
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Is the jurisdiction of the Crown Court to retry a defendant under sections 7 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1988 contingent upon the fulfilment of the procedural requirements contained in section 8 of the same act, such that a defendant who has not been arraigned within two months of the date of the order committing him for retrial cannot be lawfully retrial (save with leave of the Court of Appeal)?
Last updated: 19 March 2025
UKSC/2023/0131
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COMMERCIAL
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:1. On its true construction, does the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976 (‘1976 Convention’) permit a charterer to limit its liability to an owner for a claim concerning loss originally suffered by the owner itself? 2. On their true construction, what is the scope of Article 2.1(a), (e) and (f), 1976 Convention?
Last updated: 19 March 2025
UKSC/2025/0025
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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:(1) Whether the fields on the Appellant’s farm were uncultivated when the Respondent sought an injunction to prevent the Appellant from ploughing the fields and damaging the archaeological heritage they contained? (2) Whether the Respondent was entitled to require the Appellant to provide further information before determining his application for consent to plough the fields? (3) Whether the grant of the injunction preventing the Appellant from ploughing the fields was a breach of his human rights, in particular articles 6, 7 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the “ECHR”) and article 1 of the First Protocol of the ECHR?
Last updated: 19 March 2025
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