List of United Kingdom Supreme Court cases

This is a list of judgments given by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom between the court's inception on 1 October 2009 and the most recent judgments. Cases are listed in order of their neutral citation and where possible a link to the official text of the decision in PDF format has been provided.

Unless otherwise noted, cases were heard by a panel of 5 judges.

Cases involving Scots law are highlighted in orange. Cases involving Northern Irish law are highlighted in green.

2009 judgments

Case name	Citation	Decided	Legal subject	Summary of decision
R (E) v JFS[1][2]	[2009] UKSC 1	14 October	Costs
Re Sigma Finance	[2009] UKSC 2	29 October	Insolvency
R (L) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	[2009] UKSC 3	29 October	Police law, Article 8 ECHR
Louca v Germany	[2009] UKSC 4	19 November	European Arrest Warrants
In re B (A Child) (2009 ruling)	[2009] UKSC 5	19 November	Family law
OFT v Abbey National	[2009] UKSC 6	25 November	Consumer rights
PE (Cameroon) v Home Secretary	[2009] UKSC 7	26 November	Immigration
R (A) v Croydon	[2009] UKSC 8	26 November	Family law, Article 6 ECHR
R (Barclay) v Justice Secretary	[2009] UKSC 9	1 December	Government of Sark, Protocol 1, Article 3 ECHR
I (A Child)	[2009] UKSC 10	1 December	Jurisdiction
Environment Secretary v Meier & Ors	[2009] UKSC 11	1 December	Land law
R(A) v B	[2009] UKSC 12	1 December	State secrets, Article 10 ECHR
Barratt Homes Ltd v Welsh Water	[2009] UKSC 13	9 December	Water Industry Act 1991
R v Horncastle[3]	[2009] UKSC 14	9 December	Evidence, Article 6 ECHR
R (E) v JFS[4]	[2009] UKSC 15	16 December	Discrimination
Mahad (Ethiopia) v Entry Clearance Officer[3]	[2009] UKSC 16	16 December	Immigration
Re S-B (Children)	[2009] UKSC 17	14 December	Family law

2010 judgments

Case name	Citation	Date	Legal subject	Summary of decision
Re. Guardian News Media, in HM Treasury v Ahmed[3]	[2010] UKSC 1	27 January	Article 8, ECHR; Article 10, ECHR
HM Treasury v Ahmed[3]	[2010] UKSC 2	27 January	Terrorism; Asset freezing
Office of Communications v The Information Commissioner	[2010] UKSC 3	27 January	Freedom of information
Grays Timber Products Ltd v HM Revenue & Customs	[2010] UKSC 4	3 February	Tax law
HM Treasury v Ahmed (No 2)[3][5]	[2010] UKSC 5	4 February	Asset freezing
Allison v HM Advocate	[2010] UKSC 6	10 February	Criminal law of Scotland
McInnes v HM Advocate	[2010] UKSC 7	10 February	Criminal law of Scotland
Tomlinson v Birmingham CC	[2010] UKSC 8	17 February	Homelessness in England
Norris v USA[4]	[2010] UKSC 9	24 February	Extradition; Article 8, ECHR
Martin v HM Advocate	[2010] UKSC 10	3 March	Scottish Devolution
R (Lewis) v Redcar & Cleveland BC	[2010] UKSC 11	3 March	Town Greens
Re W (Children)	[2010] UKSC 12	3 March	Family Law
Agbaje v Akinnoye-Agbaje	[2010] UKSC 13	10 March	Family Law
RTS Flexible Systems Ltd v Molkerei Alois Müller GmbH	[2010] UKSC 14	10 March	Contract law
R (JS (Sri Lanka)) v Home Secretary	[2010] UKSC 15	17 March	Terrorism; Immigration
British Airways v Williams	[2010] UKSC 16	24 March	Employment law
R (F) v Home Secretary	[2010] UKSC 17	21 April	Sexual Offences Act 2003; Article 8, ECHR
Farstad Supply v Enviroco	[2010] UKSC 18	5 May	Negligence
Inveresk plc v Tullis Russell Papermakers	[2010] UKSC 19	5 May	Scots contract law
R (Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd) v Wolverhampton CC[3]	[2010] UKSC 20	12 May	Planning law
ZN (Afghanistan) v Entry Clearance Officer	[2010] UKSC 21	12 May	Immigration law
Roberts v Gill & Co	[2010] UKSC 22	19 May	Wills
OB v Aventis Pasteur SA	[2010] UKSC 23	26 May	Limitation periods
Home Secretary v AP[3]	[2010] UKSC 24	16 June	Control orders; Article 8, ECHR
MS (Palestinian Territories) v Home Secretary	[2010] UKSC 25	16 June	Immigration law
Home Secretary v AP (No 2)[3][6]	[2010] UKSC 26	23 June	Article 8, ECHR
JR17 (Judicial Review App.)	[2010] UKSC 27	23 June	Right to education
Austin v Southwark LBC	[2010] UKSC 28	23 June	Landlord-tenant law
R(Smith) v Defence Secretary[4]	[2010] UKSC 29	30 June	Article 2, ECHR; Jurisdictional law
R (Noone) v Drale Hall Prison	[2010] UKSC 30	30 June	Sentencing
HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) v Home Secretary	[2010] UKSC 31	7 July	Immigration law
Southern Pacific Loans v Walker	[2010] UKSC 32	7 July	Consumer Credit Act 1974
A v Essex CC	[2010] UKSC 33	14 July	Right to education
O'Brien v Ministry of Justice	[2010] UKSC 34	28 July	Discrimination law
Bocardo SA v Star Energy UK	[2010] UKSC 35	28 July	Trespass
R (ZO (Somalia)) v Home Secretary	[2010] UKSC 36	28 July	Immigration law
Morrison Sports v Scottish Power	[2010] UKSC 37	28 July	Electricity Act 1989
RTS Flexible Systems Ltd v Molkerei Alois Müller GmbH (No 2)[7]	[2010] UKSC 38	21 July	Contract law
R v Rollins[3]	[2010] UKSC 39	28 July	Criminal law; Money laundering
R (Electoral Commission) v Westminster Magistrates' Court[3]	[2010] UKSC 40	29 July	Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000
Gisda Cyf v Barratt	[2010] UKSC 41	13 October	Employment law
Radmacher v Granatino[4]	[2010] UKSC 42	20 October	Prenuptial agreements
Cadder v HM Advocate[3]	[2010] UKSC 43	26 October	Criminal Procedure, Article 6 ECHR
Oceanbulk Shipping & Trading v TMT Asia[3]	[2010] UKSC 44	27 October	Contract law
Manchester CC v Pinnock[4]	[2010] UKSC 45	3 November	Housing, Article 8 ECHR
Dallah Real Estate & Tourism v Pakistan	[2010] UKSC 46	3 November	Arbitration, ICC
Multi-Link Leisure v North Lanarkshire Council	[2010] UKSC 47	17 November	Tenancy agreements
R v Maxwell	[2010] UKSC 48	17 November	Retrial
MA (Somalia) v Home Secretary	[2010] UKSC 49	24 November	Immigration law, Article 3 ECHR
RBS v Wilson	[2010] UKSC 50	24 November	Securities, Property law
Customs v Holland	[2010] UKSC 51	24 November	Company law, Insolvency
R v Chaytor[4]	[2010] UKSC 52	1 December	Parliamentary privilege, Parliamentary expenses
Spiller v Joseph	[2010] UKSC 53	1 December	Defamation, Fair comment
R (Child Poverty Action Group) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	[2010] UKSC 54	8 December	Housing benefit
Progress Property v Moorgarth Group	[2010] UKSC 55	8 December	Company law
Principal Reporter v K	[2010] UKSC 56	15 December	Family law; Article 8, ECHR
R (Edwards) v Environment Agency	[2010] UKSC 57	15 December	Costs
HM Revenue and Customs v DCC Holdings	[2010] UKSC 58	15 December	Tax law

2011 judgments

Case name	Citation	Date	Legal subject	Summary of decision
R (Coke-Wallis) v Institute of Chartered Accountants	[2011] UKSC 1	19 January 2011	Employment law
Morge v Hampshire County Council	[2011] UKSC 2	19 January 2011	Planning law
Yemshaw v Hounslow	[2011] UKSC 3	26 January 2011	Homelessness; Domestic violence
ZH (Tanzania) v Home Secretary	[2011] UKSC 4	1 February 2011	Children law; Immigration law
GPS Inc. v Syarikat Takaful Malaysia Berhad	[2011] UKSC 5	1 February 2011	Maritime law
Manchester CC v Pinnock (No 2)[8]	[2011] UKSC 6	9 February 2011	Article 8, ECHR; Landlord-tenant law
Brent LBC v Risk Management Partners	[2011] UKSC 7	9 February 2011	Public procurement
Hounslow LBC v Powell[3]	[2011] UKSC 8	23 February 2011	Article 8, ECHR; Homelessness
R v Forsyth	[2011] UKSC 9	23 February 2011	Criminal law; International law
Sienkiewicz v Greif[3]	[2011] UKSC 10	9 March 2011	Negligence
Patmalniece v Secretary for Work and Pensions	[2011] UKSC 11	16 March 2011	Free movement of workers
WL (Congo) v Home Secretary[4]	[2011] UKSC 12	23 March 2011	False imprisonment
Jones v Kaney[3]	[2011] UKSC 13	30 March 2011	Expert witnesses
Duncombe v Schools Secretary	[2011] UKSC 14	30 March 2011	Employment law
Communities Secretary v Welwyn Hatfield BC[3]	[2011] UKSC 15	6 April 2011	Planning law
Farstad Supply v Enviroco	[2011] UKSC 16	6 April 2011	Company law
Baker v Quantum Clothing Group	[2011] UKSC 17	13 April 2011	Negligence
R (Adams) v Justice Secretary[3]	[2011] UKSC 18	11 May 2011	Miscarriage of justice
HMRC v Tower MCashback[4]	[2011] UKSC 19	11 May 2011	Tax law
McCaughey's Application for Judicial Review[3]	[2011] UKSC 20	18 May 2011	Judicial review
R (GC) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis[3]	[2011] UKSC 21	18 May 2011	DNA evidence, Article 8 ECHR
FA (Iraq) v Home Secretary	[2011] UKSC 22	25 May 2011	EU law
SK(Zimbabwe) v Home Secretary	[2011] UKSC 23	25 May 2011	Immigration law
Fraser v Her Majesty's Advocate	[2011] UKSC 24	25 May 2011	Scots criminal law; Evidence
Bloomsbury v Sea Fish Industry Authority	[2011] UKSC 25	15 June 2011	Fisheries Act 1981; Free movement of goods
Parkwood Leisure v Alemo-Herron	[2011] UKSC 26	15 June 2011	TUPE
Re. E (Children)	[2011] UKSC 27	10 June 2011	Family law
R (Cart) v The Upper Tribunal[3]	[2011] UKSC 28	22 June 2011	Judicial review
Eba v Advocate General for Scotland[3]	[2011] UKSC 29	22 June 2011	Judicial review
R (G) v The Governors of X School	[2011] UKSC 30	29 June 2011	Article 6, ECHR
NML Capital Ltd v Republic of Argentina	[2011] UKSC 31	6 July 2011	State immunity
Scottish Widows plc v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs[9]	[2011] UKSC 32	6 July 2011	Company law
R (McDonald) v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea	[2011] UKSC 33	6 July 2011	Assisted living
Al Rawi v The Security Service[4][10]	[2011] UKSC 34	13 July 2011	Secret trial
Home Office v Tariq[4][10]	[2011] UKSC 35	13 July 2011	Secret trial
Duncombe v Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (no. 2)	[2011] UKSC 36	15 July 2011	Employment law
R v Smith	[2011] UKSC 37	20 July 2011	Criminal law
Belmont Park Investments PTY Ltd v BNY Corporate Trustee Services Ltd and Lehman Brothers Special Financing Inc	[2011] UKSC 38	27 July 2011	Insolvency law
Lucasfilm Ltd v Ainsworth	[2011] UKSC 39	27 July 2011	Intellectual property
Jivraj v Hashwani	[2011] UKSC 40	27 July 2011	Discrimination in employment
Autoclenz Ltd v Belcher	[2011] UKSC 41	27 July 2011	Employment law
Houldsworth v Bridge Trustees Ltd and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	[2011] UKSC 42	27 July 2011	Pensions law
HM Advocate v Ambrose & Ors	[2011] UKSC 43	6 October 2011	Right to counsel; Article 6, ECHR
HM Advocate v P	[2011] UKSC 44	6 October 2011	Right to counsel; Article 6, ECHR
R (Bibi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2011] UKSC 45	12 October 2011	Immigration law; Article 8, ECHR
AXA General Insurance Ltd v The Lord Advocate	[2011] UKSC 46	12 October 2011	Negligence
R (Gaines-Cooper) v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs	[2011] UKSC 47	19 October 2011	Tax law
Re. Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander Ltd and Re the Insolvency Act 1986	[2011] UKSC 48	19 October 2011	Insolvency law
Gale v Serious Organised Crime Agency [3]	[2011] UKSC 49	26 October 2011	Criminal law
Rainy Sky SA v Kookmin Bank	[2011] UKSC 50	2 November 2011	Contract law
Human Genome Sciences Inc v Eli Lilly & Co.	[2011] UKSC 51	2 November 2011	Intellectual property
Berrisford v Mexfield Housing Co-operative Ltd[3]	[2011] UKSC 52	9 November 2011	Land law
Jones v Kernott	[2011] UKSC 53	9 November 2011	Land law
McGowan v B	[2011] UKSC 54	23 November 2011	Right to counsel; Article 6, ECHR
Jude v HM Advocate	[2011] UKSC 55	23 November 2011	Right to counsel; Article 6, ECHR
Aberdeen City Council v Stewart Milne Group Ltd	[2011] UKSC 56	7 December 2011	Land law
Russell v Transocean International Resources Ltd	[2011] UKSC 57	7 December 2011	Working Time Regulations 1998
Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	[2011] UKSC 58	14 December 2011	Employment law
R v Gnango	[2011] UKSC 59	14 December 2011	Criminal law
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Payne	[2011] UKSC 60	14 December 2011	Insolvency law

2012 judgments

Case name	Citation	Date	Legal subject	Summary of decision
Ravat v Halliburton Manufacturing and Services Ltd	[2012] UKSC 1	8 February 2012	Jurisdiction; Employment law
Rabone v Pennine Care NHS Trust	[2012] UKSC 2	8 February 2012	Article 2, ECHR
Re. Stanford International Bank Ltd v Director of the Serious Fraus Office	[2012] UKSC 3	15 February 2012	Restraint order
Sugar v British Broadcasting Corporation	[2012] UKSC 4	15 February 2012	Freedom of information
Re Peacock	[2012] UKSC 5	22 February 2012	Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
Re Lehman Brothers International and Re the Insolvency Act 1986	[2012] UKSC 6	29 February 2012	Insolvency law
Anderson v Shetland Islands Council	[2012] UKSC 7	29 February 2012	Security for costs
W and BB v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2012] UKSC 8	7 March 2012	Immigration law
Ministry of Defence v AB[3]	[2012] UKSC 9	14 March 2012	Limitation Act 1980
Re S (A Child)	[2012] UKSC 10	14 March 2012	Child abduction
Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd	[2012] UKSC 11	21 March 2012	Defamation
R (ST) v Secretary of State for the Home Department[3]	[2012] UKSC 12	21 March 2012	Immigration law
Tesco Stores Ltd v Dundee City Council	[2012] UKSC 13	21 March 2012	Planning law
BAI (Run Off) Ltd v Durham (The Trigger Litigation)	[2012] UKSC 14	28 March 2012	Insurance law; Negligence
Homer v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police	[2012] UKSC 15	25 April 2012	Labour law	It was a violation of the Equality Act 2010 to require a policeman to have a law degree close to retirement to continue in a similar job.
Seldon v Clarkson Wright and Jakes	[2012] UKSC 16	25 April 2012	Labour law	There was no unjustified indirect discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 by a firm having a policy of requiring partners to retire at a certain age, since this enabled young people to advance.
Petroleo Brasileiro SA v E.N.E. Kos 1 Ltd	[2012] UKSC 17	2 May 2012	Maritime law
Humphreys v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs	[2012] UKSC 18	16 May 2012	Tax credit
Test Claimants in the Franked Investment Income Group Litigation v Commissioners of Inland Revenue[3]	[2012] UKSC 19	23 May 2012	Corporation tax
Lukaszewski v The District Court in Torun, Poland	[2012] UKSC 20	23 May 2012	European Arrest Warrant
NJDB v JEG	[2012] UKSC 21	23 May 2012	Family law
Assange v The Swedish Prosecution Authority[3]	[2012] UKSC 22	30 May 2012	European Arrest Warrant
R (KM) v Cambridgeshire County Council[3]	[2012] UKSC 23	31 May 2012	Disability law
BH v The Lord Advocate[3]	[2012] UKSC 24	20 June 2012	Extradition; Article 8, ECHR
HH v Deputy Prosecutor of the Italian Republic, Genoa[3]	[2012] UKSC 25	20 June 2012	European Arrest Warrant
Fairclough Homes Ltd v Summers	[2012] UKSC 26	27 June 2012	Criminal law
Oracle America Inc (Formerly Sun Microsystems Inc) v M-Tech Data Ltd	[2012] UKSC 27	27 June 2012	Free movement of goods
Phillips v Mulcaire	[2012] UKSC 28	4 July 2012	Phone hacking
Gow v Grant	[2012] UKSC 29	4 July 2012	Family law
ANS v ML	[2012] UKSC 30	11 July 2012	Family law; Article 8, ECHR
G Hamilton (Tullochgribban Mains) Ltd v The Highland Council	[2012] UKSC 31	11 July 2012	Planning law
R (Munir) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2012] UKSC 32	18 July 2012	Immigration law
R (Alvi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2012] UKSC 33	18 July 2012	Immigration law
The Health and Safety Executive v Wolverhampton City Council	[2012] UKSC 34	18 July 2012	Judicial review
Perry v Serious Organised Crime Agency[4]	[2012] UKSC 35	25 July 2012	Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
T (Children)	[2012] UKSC 36	25 July 2012	Costs
Hewage v Grampian Health Board	[2012] UKSC 37	25 July 2012	Employment law
RT v Secretary of State for the Home Department[3]	[2012] UKSC 38	25 July 2012	Immigration law
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council v Hickin	[2012] UKSC 39	25 July 2012	Landlord-tenant law
SerVaas Inc v Rafidain Bank	[2012] UKSC 40	17 August 2012	State Immunity Act 1978
Day v Hosebay Ltd[3]	[2012] UKSC 41	10 October 2012	Leasehold Reform Act 1967
R v Varma	[2012] UKSC 42	10 October 2012	Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
British Airways plc v Williams	[2012] UKSC 43	17 October 2012	Employment law
Walton v The Scottish Ministers	[2012] UKSC 44	17 October 2012	Planning law
BCL Old Co Ltd v BASF plc	[2012] UKSC 45	24 October 2012	Competition law
Rubin v Eurofinance SA	[2012] UKSC 46	24 October 2012	Jurisdiction
Birmingham City Council v Abdulla	[2012] UKSC 47	24 October 2012	Employment law
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v Yunus Rahmatullah[3]	[2012] UKSC 48	31 October 2012	Habeas corpus
Jessy Saint Prix v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	[2012] UKSC 49	31 October 2012	Employment law
Morris v Rae	[2012] UKSC 50	7 November 2012	Contract law
R v Waya[4]	[2012] UKSC 51	14 November 2012	Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
R (Gujra) v Crown Prosecution Service	[2012] UKSC 52	14 November 2012	Private prosecution
Local Government Byelaws (Wales) Bill 2012 - Reference by the Attorney General for England and Wales	[2012] UKSC 53	21 November 2012	Welsh devolution
Al-Sirri v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2012] UKSC 54	21 November 2012	Immigration law
The Rugby Football Union v Consolidated Information Services Ltd (Formerly Viagogo Ltd)	[2012] UKSC 55	21 November 2012	Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
The Catholic Child Welfare Society v Various Claimants and The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools	[2012] UKSC 56	21 November 2012	Vicarious liability
Ruddy v Chief Constable, Strathclyde Police	[2012] UKSC 57	28 November 2012	Article 3, ECHR
RM v The Scottish Ministers	[2012] UKSC 58	28 November 2012	Judicial review
X v Mid Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau	[2012] UKSC 59	12 December 2012	Employment law
Re A (A Child)	[2012] UKSC 60	12 December 2012	Family law
Imperial Tobacco Ltd v The Lord Advocate	[2012] UKSC 61	12 December 2012	Scottish devolution
Kinloch v Her Majesty's Advocate	[2012] UKSC 62	19 December 2012	Article 6, ECHR; Article 8, ECHR
Société Générale, London Branch v Geys	[2012] UKSC 63	19 December 2012	Employment law

2013 judgments

Case name	Citation	Date	Legal subject	Summary of decision
R (Prudential plc) v Special Commissioner of Income Tax[3]	[2013] UKSC 1	23 January 2013	Legal advice privilege
Zakrzewski v The Regional Court in Lodz, Poland	[2013] UKSC 2	23 January 2013	European arrest warrant
Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland v Lloyds Banking Group Plc	[2013] UKSC 3	23 January 2013	Deed law
B (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2013] UKSC 4	30 January 2013	Sentencing
VTB Capital plc v Nutritek International Corp	[2013] UKSC 5	6 February 2013	Company law
O'Brien v Ministry of Justice (Formerly the Department for Constitutional Affairs)	[2013] UKSC 6	6 February 2013	Employment law
Re Digital Satellite Warranty Cover Ltd v Financial Services Authority	[2013] UKSC 7	13 February 2013	Company law
Re L and B (Children)	[2013] UKSC 8	20 February 2013	Family law
Re J (Children)[3]	[2013] UKSC 9	20 February 2013	Family law
Sharif v The London Borough of Camden	[2013] UKSC 10	20 February 2013	Homelessness law
The Financial Services Authority v Sinaloa Gold plc	[2013] UKSC 11	27 February 2013	Financial Services and Markets Act 2000
Davies v The Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care	[2013] UKSC 12	27 February 2013	Care law
Joint Administrators of Heritable Bank plc v The Winding-Up Board of Landsbanki Islands HF	[2013] UKSC 13	27 February 2013	Insolvency law
Daejan Investments Ltd v Benson	[2013] UKSC 14	6 March 2013	Landlord-tenant law
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v Aimia Coalition Loyalty UK Ltd (No 1)	[2013] UKSC 15	13 March 2013	Tax law
Schütz (UK) Ltd v Werit (UK) Ltd	[2013] UKSC 16	13 March 2013	Intellectual property law
Hayes v Willoughby	[2013] UKSC 17	20 March 2013	Protection from Harassment Act 1997
Public Relations Consultants Association Ltd v The Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd	[2013] UKSC 18	17 April 2013	Copyright law
Jones (by Caldwell) v First Tier Tribunal and Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority	[2013] UKSC 19	17 April 2013	Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority
Barts and the London NHS Trust v Verma	[2013] UKSC 20	24 April 2013	Employment law
Uprichard v Scottish Ministers	[2013] UKSC 21	24 April 2013	Planning law
Salvesen v Riddell	[2013] UKSC 22	24 April 2013	Scottish devolution
R (Faulkner) v Secretary of State for Justice	[2013] UKSC 23	1 May 2013	Criminal law
WHA Ltd v Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs	[2013] UKSC 24	1 May 2013	Tax law
R (ClientEarth) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	[2013] UKSC 25	1 May 2013	Environmental law
Futter v The Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs[3]	[2013] UKSC 26	9 May 2013	Trust law
SL v Westminster City Council	[2013] UKSC 27	9 May 2013	Judicial review; National Assistance Act 1948
BNY Corporate Trustee Services Ltd v Neuberger Berman Europe Ltd	[2013] UKSC 28	9 May 2013	Insolvency law
The President of the Methodist Conference v Preston	[2013] UKSC 29	15 May 2013	Employment law
Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v Marks and Spencer plc	[2013] UKSC 30	22 May 2013	Company law
Vestergaard Frandsen v Bestnet Europe Ltd	[2013] UKSC 31	22 May 2013	Breach of confidence
Public Prosecution Service of Northern Ireland v Elliott	[2013] UKSC 32	22 May 2013	Policing and Crime Act 2009
Re B (A Child)	[2013] UKSC 33	12 June 2013	Family law
Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd[3]	[2013] UKSC 34	12 June 2013	Family law
Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC v AES Ust-Kamenogorstk Hydropower Plant LLP	[2013] UKSC 35	12 June 2013	Jurisdiction
O'Neill No 2 v Her Majesty's Advocate	[2013] UKSC 36	13 June 2013	Article 6, ECHR
Apollo Engineering Ltd v James Scott Ltd	[2013] UKSC 37	13 June 2013	Jurisdiction
Bank Mellat v Her Majesty's Treasury (No. 1)[4]	[2013] UKSC 38	19 June 2013	Closed material procedures
Bank Mellat v Her Majesty's Treasury (No. 2)[4]	[2013] UKSC 39	19 June 2013	Closed material procedures
Cusack v London Borough of Harrow	[2013] UKSC 40	19 June 2013	Highways Act 1980
Smith v The Ministry of Defence[3]	[2013] UKSC 41	19 June 2013	Jurisdiction; Article 2, ECHR; Negligence
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v Aimia Coalition Loyalty UK Ltd (No. 2)	[2013] UKSC 42	20 June 2013	Tax law
R v Brown	[2013] UKSC 43	26 June 2013	Criminal law of Northern Ireland
Abela v Baadarani	[2013] UKSC 44	26 June 2013	Civil Procedure Rules
North v Dumfries and Galloway Council	[2013] UKSC 45	26 June 2013	Employment law
Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd v Zodiac Seats UK Ltd	[2013] UKSC 46	3 July 2013	Intellectual property law
R (Sturnham) v The Parole Board of England and Wales	[2013] UKSC 47	3 July 2013	Criminal law
Kapri v The Lord Advocate representing The Government of the Republic of Albania	[2013] UKSC 48	10 July 2013	Extradition; Article 6, ECHR
R (AA) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2013] UKSC 49	10 July 2013	Immigration law
Benedetti v Sawiris	[2013] UKSC 50	17 July 2013	Unjust enrichment
R (New London College Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2013] UKSC 51	17 July 2013	Immigration law
Re Nortel Companies	[2013] UKSC 52	24 July 2013	Pensions Act 2004, insolvency law
R (Modaresi) v Secretary of State for Health	[2013] UKSC 53	24 July 2013	Mental Health Act 1983
Daejan Investments Ltd v Benson (No. 2)	[2013] UKSC 54	24 July 2013	Landlord-tenant law
South Lanarkshire Council v The Scottish Information Commissioner	[2013] UKSC 55	29 July 2013	Freedom of information
R v Hughes	[2013] UKSC 56	31 July 2013	Criminal law
Teal Assurance Company Ltd v W R Berkley Insurance Ltd	[2013] UKSC 57	31 July 2013	Professional liability insurance
McGraddie v McGraddie	[2013] UKSC 58	31 July 2013	Findings of fact
Torfaen County Borough Council v Douglas Willis Ltd	[2013] UKSC 59	31 July 2013	Food Safety Act 1990
Re A (Children)	[2013] UKSC 60	9 September 2013	Jurisdiction
Osborn v The Parole Board	[2013] UKSC 61	9 October 2013	Article 5, ECHR
Secretary of State for the Home Department v Al-Jedda	[2013] UKSC 62	9 October 2013	Immigration law
McGeoch v The Lord President of the Council[3]	[2013] UKSC 63	16 October 2013	Prisoner voting
R v Gul[3]	[2013] UKSC 64	23 October 2013	Terrorism Act 2000
Szepietowski v The National Crime Agency	[2013] UKSC 65	23 October 2013	Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
Woodland v Essex County Council	[2013] UKSC 66	23 October 2013	Tort law	A school was liable for the failure of a swimming instructor contractor to take care of children, even though pupils and parents have no contract with the school.
Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v James	[2013] UKSC 67	30 October 2013	Medical law
R (Reilly) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	[2013] UKSC 68	30 October 2013	Jobseeker's Allowance
Cotter v Commissioners For Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs	[2013] UKSC 69	6 November 2013	Tax law
The Alexandros T	[2013] UKSC 70	6 November 2013	Jurisdiction; Shipping law
Sakalis v Ministry of Justice, Lithuania	[2013] UKSC 71	20 November 2013	European Arrest Warrant
Patel v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2013] UKSC 72	20 November 2013	Immigration law
Bull v Hall	[2013] UKSC 73	27 November 2013	Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations
Zoumbas v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2013] UKSC 74	27 November 2013	Immigration law
Re KL (A Child)	[2013] UKSC 75	4 December 2013	Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
Re an application by Martin Corey for Judicial Review	[2013] UKSC 76	4 December 2013	Northern Irish criminal law
R (Hodkin) v Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages	[2013] UKSC 77	11 December 2013	Family law
R (Edwards) v Environment Agency (No. 2)	[2013] UKSC 78	11 December 2013	Costs
G v Scottish Ministers	[2013] UKSC 79	18 December 2013	Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003
West London Mental Health NHS Trust v Chhabra	[2013] UKSC 80	18 December 2013	Patient confidentiality; Employment law
AA (Somalia) v Entry Clearance Officer (Addis Ababa)	[2013] UKSC 81	18 December 2013	Immigration law

2014 judgments

Case name	Citation	Date	Legal subject	Summary of decision
Re LC (Children)	[2014] UKSC 1	15 January 2014	Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
Marley v Rawlings	[2014] UKSC 2	22 January 2014	Wills
R (HS2 Action Alliance Ltd) v Secretary of State for Transport	[2014] UKSC 3	22 January 2014	Judicial review
Re an application of Raymond Brownlee for Judicial Review	[2014] UKSC 4	5 February 2014	Legal aid
R v Mackle (Nos. 1, 2 and 3), and R v McLaughlin	[2014] UKSC 5	29 January 2014	Evasion of customs duty
I.A. v The Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2014] UKSC 6	29 January 2014	Immigration law
Adamson v Paddico (267) Ltd	[2014] UKSC 7	5 February 2014	Village greens
Richardson v DPP	[2014] UKSC 8	5 February 2014	Criminal law
Cramaso LLP v Ogilvie-Grant, Earl of Seafield	[2014] UKSC 9	12 February 2014	Delict
Williams v Central Bank of Nigeria	[2014] UKSC 10	19 February 2014	Trusts; Fraud; Jurisdiction
Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v Marks and Spencer plc	[2014] UKSC 11	19 February 2014	Corporate tax
R (EM (Eritrea)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2014] UKSC 12	19 February 2014	Immigration law; Article 3, ECHR
Coventry v Lawrence	[2014] UKSC 13	26 February 2014	Legal Expenses Insurance; Article 6, ECHR
Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v Forde and McHugh Ltd	[2014] UKSC 14	26 February 2014	National Insurance
Stott v Thomas Cook Tour Operators Ltd	[2014] UKSC 15	5 March 2014	Montreal Convention
Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v Secret Hotels2 Ltd (formerly Med Hotels Ltd)	[2014] UKSC 16	5 March 2014	Value Added Tax
R (British Sky Broadcasting Ltd) v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	[2014] UKSC 17	12 March 2014	Secret trial
Dunhill v Burgin	[2014] UKSC 18	12 March 2014	Negligence
P v v Cheshire West and Chester Council[3]	[2014] UKSC 19	19 March 2014	Mental Capacity Act 2005
Kennedy v The Charity Commission[3]	[2014] UKSC 20	26 March 2014	Freedom of information
Durkin v DSG Retail Ltd	[2014] UKSC 21	26 March 2014	Consumer protection law
Cox v Ergo Versicherung AG (formerly known as Victoria)	[2014] UKSC 22	2 April 2014	Jurisdiction
R v O'Brien	[2014] UKSC 23	2 April 2014	Extradition Act 2003
British Telecommunications plc v Telefónica O2 Ltd	[2014] UKSC 24	9 April 2014	Competition law
A v British Broadcasting Corporation	[2014] UKSC 25	8 May 2014	Article 10, ECHR
Barnes v The Eastenders Group	[2014] UKSC 26	8 May 2014	Receivership
L Batley Pet Products Ltd v North Lanarkshire Councilt	[2014] UKSC 27	8 May 2014	Contract law
R (Fitzroy George) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2014] UKSC 28	14 May 2014	Immigration law
Re K (A Child)	[2014] UKSC 29	15 May 2014	Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
Secretary of State for Home Department v MN and KY	[2014] UKSC 30	21 May 2014	Immigration law
R (Barkas) v North Yorkshire County Council	[2014] UKSC 31	21 May 2014	Village green
Clyde & Co LLP v Winkelhof	[2014] UKSC 32	21 May 2014	Employment law
Khaira v Shergill	[2014] UKSC 33	11 June 2014	Trust law
R (Eastenders Cash and Carry plc) v The Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs	[2014] UKSC 34	11 June 2014	HM Customs and Excise
R (T) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2014] UKSC 35	18 June 2014	Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
R v Ahmad	[2014] UKSC 36	18 June 2014	Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
R (Nunn) v Chief Constable of Suffolk Constabulary	[2014] UKSC 37	18 June 2014	Evidence
R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice[4]	[2014] UKSC 38	25 June 2014	Assisted suicide
R (Whiston) v Secretary of State for Justice	[2014] UKSC 39	2 July 2014	Article 5, ECHR
The Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd v United Utilities Water plc	[2014] UKSC 40	2 July 2014	Water Industry Act 1991
Henderson v Foxworth Investments Ltd	[2014] UKSC 41	2 July 2014	Insolvency law
British Telecommunications plc v Telefónica O2 Ltd	[2014] UKSC 42	9 July 2014	Competition law
Agricultural Sector (Wales) Bill - Reference by the Attorney General for England and Wales	[2014] UKSC 43	9 July 2014	Devolution in Wales
R (Sandiford) v The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs	[2014] UKSC 44	16 July 2014	Lindsay Sandiford case; Consular assistance
FHR European Ventures LLP v Cedar Capital Partners LLC[3]	[2014] UKSC 45	16 July 2014	Duties of a fiduciary
Coventry v Lawrence (No. 2)	[2014] UKSC 46	23 July 2014	Injunctions; Article 6, ECHR
Hounga v Allen	[2014] UKSC 47	30 July 2014	Employment law
David T Morrison & Co Ltd t/a Gael Home Interiors v ICL Plastics Ltd	[2014] UKSC 48	30 July 2014	Delict
Healthcare at Home Ltd v The Common Services Agency	[2014] UKSC 49	30 July 2014	Procurement
Robertson v Swift	[2014] UKSC 50	9 September 2014	Consumer protection law
Marley v Rawlings (Costs)	[2014] UKSC 51	18 September 2014	Costs
Scott v Southern Pacific Mortgages Ltd	[2014] UKSC 52	22 October 2014	Sale and rent back
McDonald v National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc	[2014] UKSC 53	22 October 2014	Mesothelioma; Negligence
R (Barclay) v Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor	[2014] UKSC 54	22 October 2014	Jurisdiction
Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex Inc	[2014] UKSC 55	29 October 2014	Ex turpi causa
R (Moseley) v London Borough of Haringey	[2014] UKSC 56	29 October 2014	Council tax
Telchadder v Wickland Holdings Ltd	[2014] UKSC 57	5 November 2014	Occupiers' liability
AIB Group (UK) v Mark Redler & Co Solicitors	[2014] UKSC 58	5 November 2014	Breach of trust
VB v Westminster Magistrates' Court	[2014] UKSC 59	5 November 2014	Secret trial; Article 6, ECHR
R (Lord Carlile of Berriew QC) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2014] UKSC 60	12 November 2014	Article 10, ECHR
Plevin v Paragon Personal Finance Ltd	[2014] UKSC 61	12 November 2014	Payment protection insurance
R (ZH and CN) v London Borough of Newham and London Borough of Lewisham[3]	[2014] UKSC 62	12 November 2014	Homelessness
Sims v Dacorum Borough Council[3]	[2014] UKSC 63	12 November 2014	Landlord-tenant law
HRH Prince Abdulaziz Bin Mishal Bin Abdulaziz v Apex Global Management Ltd	[2014] UKSC 64	26 November 2014	Company law
Loveridge v Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Lambeth	[2014] UKSC 65	3 December 2014	Eviction
R (Haney, Kaiyam & Massey) v Secretary of State for Justice	[2014] UKSC 66	10 December 2014	Sentencing; Article 5, ECHR
Moohan v The Lord Advocate[3]	[2014] UKSC 67	17 December 2014	Prisoners' voting
Greater Glasgow Health Board v Doogan	[2014] UKSC 68	17 December 2014	Abortion; Conscientious objection

2015 judgments

Case name	Citation	Date	Legal subject	Summary of decision
McGraddie v McGraddie (Costs)	[2015] UKSC 1	28 January 2015	After-the-event insurance
Michael v The Chief Constable of South Wales Police[3]	[2015] UKSC 2	28 January 2015	Negligence; Article 2, ECHR
Recovery of Medical Costs for Asbestos Diseases (Wales) Bill - Reference by the Counsel General for Wales	[2015] UKSC 3	9 February 2015	Welsh devolution
Sustainable Shetland v The Scottish Ministers	[2015] UKSC 4	9 February 2015	Planning law
Jackson v Murray	[2015] UKSC 5	18 February 2015	Contributory negligence
R (Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council) v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills[3]	[2015] UKSC 6	25 February 2015	Judicial review; European Structural Funds
R (Newhaven Port & Properties Ltd) v East Sussex County Council	[2015] UKSC 7	25 February 2015	Village green
R (Jamar Brown (Jamaica)) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2015] UKSC 8	4 March 2015	Immigration law
R (Catt) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	[2015] UKSC 9	4 March 2015	Data Protection Act 1998; Article 8, ECHR
Sea Shepherd UK v Fish & Fish Ltd	[2015] UKSC 10	4 March 2015	Tort
Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board[3]	[2015] UKSC 11	11 March 2015	Medical law
Tael One Partners Ltd v Morgan Stanley & Co International PLC	[2015] UKSC 12	11 March 2015	Contractual conditions
Carlyle v Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	[2015] UKSC 13	11 March 2015	Scottish contract law
Wyatt v Vince	[2015] UKSC 14	11 March 2015	Divorce law
Akerman-Livingstone v Aster Communities Ltd (formerly Flourish Homes Ltd)	[2015] UKSC 15	11 March 2015	Equality Act 2010; Article 8, ECHR
R (SG) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	[2015] UKSC 16	18 March 2015	Welfare Reform Act 2012; Article 14, ECHR
Braganza v BP Shipping Ltd	[2015] UKSC 17	18 March 2015	Fatal Accidents Act 1976
R (Trail Riders Fellowship) v Dorset County Council	[2015] UKSC 18	18 March 2015	Public rights of way
Pham v Secretary of State for the Home Department[3]	[2015] UKSC 19	25 March 2015	Immigration law
Re S (A Child)	[2015] UKSC 20	25 March 2015	Costs
R (Evans) v Attorney General[3]	[2015] UKSC 21	26 March 2015	Freedom of Information Act 2000
Nzolameso v City of Westminster	[2015] UKSC 22	2 April 2015	Homelessness
Jetivia SA v Bilta (UK) Ltd[3]	[2015] UKSC 23	22 April 2015	Insolvency law
R v GH	[2015] UKSC 24	22 April 2015	Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
R (Hemming) v Westminster City Council	[2015] UKSC 25	29 April 2015	Licensed sex shop
University and College Union v The University of Stirling	[2015] UKSC 26	29 April 2015	Redundancy law
Trustees of the Olympic Airlines SA Pension and Life Assurance Scheme v Olympic Airlines SA	[2015] UKSC 27	29 April 2015	Pension Protection Fund
R (ClientEarth) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	[2015] UKSC 28	29 April 2015	Environmental law
Gaughran v Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland	[2015] UKSC 29	13 May 2015	DNA database; Article 8, ECHR
Hotak v London Borough of Southwark	[2015] UKSC 30	13 May 2015	Homelessness
Starbucks (HK) Ltd v British Sky Broadcasting Group plc	[2015] UKSC 31	13 May 2015	Passing off
Rhodes v OPO	[2015] UKSC 32	20 May 2015	Freedom of expression
Zurich Insurance PLC UK Branch v International Energy Group Ltd[3]	[2015] UKSC 33	20 May 2015	Mesothelioma
Haile v London Borough of Waltham Forest	[2015] UKSC 34	20 May 2015	Homelessness
AR v RN	[2015] UKSC 35	22 May 2015	Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
Arnold v Britton	[2015] UKSC 36	10 June 2015	Contract law
Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v Pendragon plc	[2015] UKSC 37	10 June 2015	VAT
Aspect Contracts (Asbestos) Ltd v Higgins Construction Plc	[2015] UKSC 38	17 June 2015	Contract law
BPE Solicitors v Gabriel	[2015] UKSC 39	17 June 2015	Costs
TN and MA (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2015] UKSC 40	24 June 2015	Immigration law
R (Lumsdon) v Legal Services Board	[2015] UKSC 41	24 June 2015	Judicial review
In re JR38	[2015] UKSC 42	1 July 2015	Article 8, ECHR
Bunge SA v Nidera BV	[2015] UKSC 43	1 July 2015	Contract law
Anson v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs	[2015] UKSC 44	1 July 2015	Tax law
Edenred (UK Group) Ltd v HM Treasury	[2015] UKSC 45	1 July 2015	Public procurement
R (Cornwall Council) v Somerset County Council	[2015] UKSC 46	8 July 2015	National Assistance Act 1948
Mathieson v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	[2015] UKSC 47	8 July 2015	Disability Living Allowance, EU law
Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v The Rank Group PLC	[2015] UKSC 48	8 July 2015	VAT
Beghal v DPP	[2015] UKSC 49	22 July 2015	Terrorism Act 2000
Coventry v Lawrence (No. 3)	[2015] UKSC 50	22 July 2015	Costs; Article 6, ECHR
Hunt v North Somerset Council	[2015] UKSC 51	22 July 2015	Judicial review
R (Champion) v North Norfolk District Council	[2015] UKSC 52	22 July 2015	Planning law; Habitats Directive
Woolway v Mazars	[2015] UKSC 53	29 July 2015	Hereditament
R (Bourgass) v Secretary of State for Justice	[2015] UKSC 54	29 July 2015	Prison
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Tolley	[2015] UKSC 55	29 July 2015	Disability Living Allowance
John Mander Pension Scheme Trustees Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs	[2015] UKSC 56	29 July 2015	Pension schemes
R (Tigere) v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills	[2015] UKSC 57	29 July 2015	Student loans
Shahid v Scottish Ministers	[2015] UKSC 58	14 October 2015	Article 3, ECHR; Article 8, ECHR
Mandalia v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2015] UKSC 59	14 October 2015	Immigration law
Sharland v Sharland[3]	[2015] UKSC 60	14 October 2015	Divorce law
Gohil v Gohil[3]	[2015] UKSC 61	14 October 2015	Divorce law
R v McGeough	[2015] UKSC 62	21 October 2015	Evidence
The United States of America v Nolan	[2015] UKSC 63	21 October 2015	Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992
JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov	[2015] UKSC 64	21 October 2015	Asset freezing
British American Tobacco Denmark A/S v Kazemier Transport BV	[2015] UKSC 65	28 October 2015	Jurisdiction
Bank of Cyprus UK Ltd. v Menelaou	[2015] UKSC 66	4 November 2015	Unjust enrichment
Cavendish Square Holding BV v Talal El Makdessi[3]	[2015] UKSC 67	4 November 2015	Contract law
R (on the application of Ali) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2015] UKSC 68	18 November 2015	Immigration law
Keyu v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs	[2015] UKSC 69	25 November 2015	Judicial review
In the matter of J (a child)	[2015] UKSC 70	25 November 2015	Hague Convention on Parental Responsibility and Protection of Children; Jurisdiction
Eclairs Group Ltd v JKX Oil & Gas plc	[2015] UKSC 71	2 December 2015	Companies Act 2006
Marks and Spencer plc v BNP Paribas Securities Services Trust Company (Jersey) Ltd	[2015] UKSC 72	2 December 2015	Contract law
R v Harvey	[2015] UKSC 73	16 December 2015	Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
Trump International Golf Club Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers	[2015] UKSC 74	16 December 2015	Planning law
Société Cooperative De Production Seafrance SA v The Competition and Markets Authority	[2015] UKSC 75	16 December 2015	Mergers and acquisitions
R (on the application of Wang Yam) v Central Criminal Court[3]	[2015] UKSC 76	16 December 2015	Evidence
Macklin v HM Advocate[3]	[2015] UKSC 77	16 December 2015	Scottish criminal law
Thevarajah v Riordan	[2015] UKSC 78	16 December 2015	Debarment
R (on the application of Roberts) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	[2015] UKSC 79	17 December 2015	Stop and search

2016 judgments

Case name	Citation	Decided	Legal subject	Summary of decision
Mirga v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	[2016] UKSC 1	27 January	Social security	It was lawful to deny a pregnant Polish woman income support under UK and EU law, and to deny an Iraqi man housing under the Housing Act 1996.
R (C) v Secretary of State for Justice	[2016] UKSC 2	27 January		Anonymity
Youssef v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs	[2016] UKSC 3	27 January		Asset freezing
Re B (A Child)	[2016] UKSC 4	3 February		Jurisdiction; Children Act 1989
R v Taylor[3]	[2016] UKSC 5	3 February	Criminal law
Kennedy v Cordia (Services) LLP	[2016] UKSC 6	10 February	Tort law	Negligence
Shop Direct Group v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs	[2016] UKSC 7	17 February	Tax law	VAT
R v Jogee	[2016] UKSC 8	18 February	Criminal law	Joint enterprise
Knauer v Ministry of Justice[3]	[2016] UKSC 9	24 February	Tort law	Mesothelioma; Damages
Cox v Ministry of Justice	[2016] UKSC 10	2 March	Tort law	Vicarious liability
Mr A M Mohamud v WM Morrison Supermarkets plc	[2016] UKSC 11	2 March	Tort law	Vicarious liability
PMS International Group Plc v Magmatic Ltd	[2016] UKSC 12	9 March	Intellectual property
DB Group Services Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs	[2016] UKSC 13	9 March	Tax law
Lynn Shellfish Ltd v Loose	[2016] UKSC 14	13 April	Land law	Fishing industry in England
In the matter of N (Children)	[2016] UKSC 15	13 April	Conflict of laws	Jurisdiction and Brussels II.
R (Nouazli) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2016] UKSC 16	20 April	Immigration law
Asset Land Investment Plc v The Financial Conduct Authority	[2016] UKSC 17	20 April		Collective investment schemes
The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime v Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co (Europe) Ltd	[2016] UKSC 18	20 April	Tort law	The proper scope of compensation under the Riot (Damages) Act 1886 in an insurance policy.
R (O) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2016] UKSC 19	27 April		False imprisonment
NYK Bulkship (Atlantic) NV v Cargill International SA	[2016] UKSC 20	11 May		Maritime law
Airtours Holidays Transport Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs	[2016] UKSC 21	11 May	Tax law	VAT
In the matter of an application by JR55 for Judicial Review	[2016] UKSC 22	11 May		Judicial review
PST Energy 7 Shipping LLC v O W Bunker Malta Ltd	[2016] UKSC 23	11 May		Maritime law
Eclipse Film Partners No 35 LLP v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs	[2016] UKSC 24	11 May		Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
Ministry of Defence v Iraqi Civilians	[2016] UKSC 25	12 May		Civil Code of Iraq
PJS v News Group Newspapers	[2016] UKSC 26	19 May	Tort law	Privacy law; Injunctions
McBride v Scottish Police Authority	[2016] UKSC 27	15 June	Labour law	Shirley McKie
McDonald v McDonald	[2016] UKSC 28	15 June	Land law	ECHR article 8
BNY Mellon Corporate Trustee Services Ltd v LBG Capital No. 1 Plc	[2016] UKSC 29	16 June	Banking law
Brown v Stonegale Ltd	[2016] UKSC 30	22 June	Company law
Taiwo v Olaigbe	[2016] UKSC 31	22 June	Labour law	Equality Act 2010
MP (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2016] UKSC 32	22 June	Immigration law
MS (Uganda) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2016] UKSC 33	22 June	Immigration law
In the matter of D (A Child)	[2016] UKSC 34	22 June		Family law
R (Bancoult (No 2)) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs	[2016] UKSC 35	29 June		British Overseas Territories
Goluchowski v District Court in Elblag, Poland	[2016] UKSC 36	29 June		European Arrest Warrant
R (Ismail) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2016] UKSC 37	6 July		Serving foreign judgments
Campbell v Gordon	[2016] UKSC 38	6 July	Labour law	Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969
R (The Public Law Project) v Lord Chancellor	[2016] UKSC 39	13 July		Legal aid
Edwards v Kumarasamy	[2016] UKSC 40	13 July	Land law	Landlord–tenant law
Amoena (UK) Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs	[2016] UKSC 41	13 July		Bras
Patel v Mirza	[2016] UKSC 42	20 July	Contract law	Illegality of contracts
Willers v Joyce (1)	[2016] UKSC 43	20 July	Tort law	Malicious prosecution
Willers v Joyce (2)	[2016] UKSC 44	20 July		Precedent; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Versloot Dredging BV and another v HDI Gerling Industrie Versicherung AG	[2016] UKSC 45	20 July	Commercial law	Marine insurance
Lee-Hirons v Secretary of State for Justice	[2016] UKSC 46	27 July		Mental health law
Bailey v Angove's PTY Ltd	[2016] UKSC 47	27 July	Commercial law	Law of agency
Hayward v Zurich Insurance Company plc	[2016] UKSC 48	27 July	Tort law	The deceitful misrepresentation of a workplace injury
Secretary of State for the Home Department v Franco Vomero (Italy)	[2016] UKSC 49	27 July	Immigration law
Hastings Borough Council v Manolete Partners Plc	[2016] UKSC 50	27 July		Hastings Pier
The Christian Institute v The Lord Advocate	[2016] UKSC 51	28 July	Constitutional law	ECHR article 8 and reserved matters
Moreno v The Motor Insurers' Bureau[11]	[2016] UKSC 52	3 August		Damages
MB v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions[11]	[2016] UKSC 53	10 August		Legal aspects of transgenderism
R (Ingenious Media Holdings plc v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs)	[2016] UKSC 54	19 October	Constitutional law	ECHR article 8
R v Mitchell	[2016] UKSC 55	19 October		Bad character evidence
R (Johnson) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2016] UKSC 56	19 October	Constitutional law	Human Rights Act 1998
Impact Funding Solutions Ltd v AIG Europe Insurance Ltd (formerly known as Chartis Insurance (UK) Ltd)	[2016] UKSC 57	26 October	Contract law
R (Rutherford) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	[2016] UKSC 58	9 November		Under-occupancy penalty
Makhlouf v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Northern Ireland)	[2016] UKSC 59	16 November	Constitutional law	Criminal deportation and ECHR article 8
Hesham Ali (Iraq) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2016] UKSC 60	16 November		Criminal deportation; ECHR Article 8
R v Golds	[2016] UKSC 61	30 November	Criminal law	Murder
R v Docherty	[2016] UKSC 62	14 December		Sentencing
R (Mirza) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2016] UKSC 63	14 December	Immigration law
Habib Khan v General Pharmaceutical Council	[2016] UKSC 64	14 December		Professional ethics
R v Guraj	[2016] UKSC 65	14 December		Confiscation

2017 judgments

Case name	Citation	Date	Legal subject	Summary of decision
Rahmatullah (No 2) v Ministry of Defence	[2017] UKSC 1	17 January	Crown Proceedings Act 1947
Abd Ali Hameed Al-Waheed v Ministry of Defence	[2017] UKSC 2	17 January	Constitutional law	Detention
Belhaj v Straw	[2017] UKSC 3	17 January	International law	Act of state doctrine
FirstGroup Plc v Paulley	[2017] UKSC 4	18 January	Discrimination law	A bus company's duty to provide wheelchair space under the Equality Act 2010.
R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union	[2017] UKSC 5	24 January	Constitutional law	An Act of Parliament, not the Royal Prerogative, was required to send notification under TEU article 50 to negotiate leaving the EU because this would withdraw rights under Acts of Parliament. Decided by 11 judges.
Akers v Samba Financial Group	[2017] UKSC 6	1 February	Conflict of laws	Extinguishing of an equitable interest by transferring legal title to a bona fide purchase for value was not a "disposition" of that equitable interest for the purposes of avoidance under the Insolvency Act 1986.
DB v Chief Constable of Police Service of Northern Ireland	[2017] UKSC 7	1 February	Constitutional law	Bans on processions in Northern Ireland and ECHR article 11.
Re Brewster	[2017] UKSC 8	8 February
R (Hicks) v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis	[2017] UKSC 9	15 February	Constitutional law
R (MM (Lebanon)) v Secretary of State	[2017] UKSC 10	22 February
R (Agyarko and Ikuga) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2017] UKSC 11	22 February
Homes and Communities Agency v JS Bloor (Wilmslow) Ltd	[2017] UKSC 12	22 February
AMT Futures Ltd v Marzillier	[2017] UKSC 13	1 March
Newbigin (Valuation Officer) v SJ & J Monk	[2017] UKSC 14	1 March
EV (A Child), Re (Scotland)	[2017] UKSC 15	1 March
IPCO (Nigeria) Ltd v Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation	[2017] UKSC 16	1 March
Ilott v The Blue Cross	[2017] UKSC 17	15 March
AIG Europe Ltd v Woodman	[2017] UKSC 18	22 March
Financial Conduct Authority v Macris	[2017] UKSC 19	22 March
Gordon v Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (Scotland)	[2017] UKSC 20	22 March
BPE Solicitors v Hughes-Holland	[2017] UKSC 21	22 March
N v ACCG	[2017] UKSC 22	22 March
Plevin v Paragon Personal Finance Ltd	[2017] UKSC 23	29 March
Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd	[2017] UKSC 24	29 March
AB v Her Majesty's Advocate	[2017] UKSC 25	5 April
Volkswagen Financial Services (UK) Ltd v Revenue and Customs	[2017] UKSC 26	5 April
Essop v Home Office (UK Border Agency)	[2017] UKSC 27	5 April	Labour law	A skills test was indirect discrimination, and claimants need not prove why if there is in fact a disparate impact.
Isle of Wight Council v Platt	[2017] UKSC 28	6 April
Revenue and Customs v The Investment Trust Companies	[2017] UKSC 29	11 April
SXH v The Crown Prosecution Service	[2017] UKSC 30	11 April
McCann v The State Hospitals Board for Scotland	[2017] UKSC 31	11 April
Lowick Rose LLP v Swynson Ltd	[2017] UKSC 32	11 April
Times Newspapers Ltd v Flood	[2017] UKSC 33	11 April
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority v EnergySolutions EU Ltd	[2017] UKSC 34	11 April
Gard Marine and Energy Ltd v China National Chartering Company Ltd	[2017] UKSC 35	10 May
Poshteh v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea	[2017] UKSC 36	10 May
Suffolk Coastal District Council v Hopkins Homes Ltd	[2017] UKSC 37	10 May
LB Holdings Intermediate 2 Ltd v Lehman Brothers International (Europe)	[2017] UKSC 38	17 May	Insolvency law
Hartley v King Edward VI College	[2017] UKSC 39	24 May	Labour law	Wage deductions from striking teachers were unlawful by exceeding the proportion of time on strike.
R (Coll) v Secretary of State for Justice	[2017] UKSC 40	24 May
R (A and B) v Secretary of State for Health	[2017] UKSC 41	14 June
R (Kiarie and Byndloss) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2017] UKSC 42	14 June
Globalia Business Travel SAU of Spain v Fulton Shipping Inc of Panama	[2017] UKSC 43	28 June
Lord Advocate v Dean	[2017] UKSC 44	28 June
RFC 2012 Plc v Advocate General for Scotland	[2017] UKSC 45	5 July
O’Brien v Ministry of Justice	[2017] UKSC 46	12 July
Walker v Innospec Ltd	[2017] UKSC 47	12 July
Eli Lilly v Actavis UK Ltd	[2017] UKSC 48	12 July
PNM v Times Newspapers Ltd &	[2017] UKSC 49	19 July
R (Hemming (t/a Simply Pleasure)) v Westminster City Council	[2017] UKSC 50	19 July
R (UNISON) v Lord Chancellor	[2017] UKSC 51	26 July	Constitutional law, Labour law	The Lord Chancellor's Order imposing £1200 fees to bring Employment Tribunal claims violated the rule of law.
McDonald v Newton or McDonald	[2017] UKSC 52	26 July
Birch v Birch	[2017] UKSC 53	26 July
Sadovska v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2017] UKSC 54	26 July
BPP Holdings Ltd v Revenue and Customs	[2017] UKSC 55	26 July
R (Forge Care Homes Ltd) v Cardiff and Vale University Health Board	[2017] UKSC 56	2 August
Goldtrail Travel Ltd v Onur Air Tasimacilik AS	[2017] UKSC 57	2 August
R v M	[2017] UKSC 58	3 August
MT Hojgaard AS v EON Climate and Renewables UK Robin Rigg East Ltd	[2017] UKSC 59	3 August
Armes v Nottinghamshire County Council	[2017] UKSC 60	18 October
Reyes v Al-Malki	[2017] UKSC 61	18 October
Benkharbouche v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs	[2017] UKSC 62	18 October	Labour law, International law	There was no state immunity for breach of employment rights.
Re Loughlin	[2017] UKSC 63	18 October
Taurus Petroleum Limited v State Oil Marketing Company of the Ministry of Oil, Republic of Iraq	[2017] UKSC 64	25 October
P v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	[2017] UKSC 65	25 October
Aberdeen City and Shire Strategic Development Planning Authority v Elsick Development Company Limited	[2017] UKSC 66	25 October
Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd	[2017] UKSC 67	25 October	Criminal law	The test for fraud is objective.
Mitsui & Co Ltd v Beteiligungsgesellschaft LPG Tankerflotte MBH & Co KG	[2017] UKSC 68	25 October
Brown v The Parole Board for Scotland	[2017] UKSC 69	1 November	Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Human Rights Act 1998	The duty to afford prisoners a real opportunity for rehabilitation extends beyond those subject to life sentences and includes prisoners serving the extended part of an extended sentence.[12]
Littlewoods Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs	[2017] UKSC 70	1 November	Tax Law	Littlewoods were not entitled on common law grounds to receive compound interest from HMRC on overpaid VAT. The terms of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 exclude common law restitution claims and compound interest and these provisions were not contrary to EU law.[13]
Michalak v General Medical Council	[2017] UKSC 71	1 November	Judicial Review, Equality Act 2010	A judicial review of conduct relating to a decision by the General Medical Council does not constitute 'proceedings in the nature of appeal' but is instead 'proceedings in which the legality of any decision, to the procedure by which it is reached, is challenge'. As a result claimants complaining of unlawful discrimination by a qualification body can take the complaint to the Employment Tribunal in all cases unless there is a specific alternative right of appeal.[14]
R (C) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	[2017] UKSC 72	1 November	Gender Inequality, Gender Recognition Act 2004, Human Rights Act 1998, Equality Act 2010	Policies in the administration the welfare benefits system which retained the birth gender of a person within a persons records were not unlawful in their application to people of reassigned gender.[15]
R (HC) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	[2017] UKSC 73	15 November	Immigration Law	Regulations introduced to exclude persons from eligibility to social security benefits who qualified to reside in the UK solely as a result of the ruling in Ruiz Zambrano v Office national de l’emploi were not incompatible with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights or Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights.[16]
R (De Silva) v HM Revenue and Customs	[2017] UKSC 74	15 November	Tax Law, Taxes Management Act 1970	Enquiries made by HMRC into elections made by members of a film partnership, in respect of the utilisation of losses made by that partnership, were valid where the enquiry was made into the partnership return rather than specifically into the claims made by the individuals.[17]
Gordon v Campbell Riddell Breeze Paterson LLP	[2017] UKSC 75	15 November	Professional negligence, Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973	The five year time limits in the Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 meant that a claim involving a professional negligence action against a firm of solicitors could only be made for up to five years from the date on which the client incurred the loss, even if the party did not know that they will have a claim during that period.[18]
Scotch Whisky Association & Ors v The Lord Advocate	[2017] UKSC 76	15 November	The Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012, Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union	The Scottish government minimum pricing legislation on alcohol was legal and did not conflict with the requirements for 'open and un-distorted competition' guaranteed by the EU free movement principles.[19]
Tiuta International Ltd (in liquidation) v De Villiers Surveyors Ltd	[2017] UKSC 77	29 November	Professional negligence in English law	Where a lender had made a loan to a property developer based on a valuation from a property surveyor which replaced an existing loan made by the same lender, which was based on a previous valuation (for which not claim for negligence was made), then the loss to the lender arising from the second valuation was limited to the additional monies lent under the second loan rather than the whole of the value of the second loan.[20]
O'Connor v Bar Standards Board	[2017] UKSC 78	6 December	Human Rights Human Rights Act 1998	A barrister who had been charged by the Bar Standards Board for professional misconduct and who had challenged the charge as being a breach of rights under the European Convention on Human Rights was not out of time to make such a challenge. The 12 month time period for making such a claim where there was a continuous course of conduct could start from the end of that continuous period.[21]
Dover District Council v CPRE Kent	[2017] UKSC 79	6 December	Planning permission in the United Kingdom, The Town and Country Planning Act 1990	Where a local planning authority had granted permission against the advice of its own professional advisers it had a common law duty required to provide reasons for the decision under common. Such a duty also existed in statute under the Town and County Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2011.[22]
Four Seasons Holdings Incorporated v Brownlie	[2017] UKSC 80	19 December	Tort law	The term "damange" should be given its ordinary and natural meaning in considering whether the civil procedure rules allow for proceedings to be brought in the English courts where 'damage was, or will be sustained, within the jurisdiction'. Therefore a indirect loss suffered in England as a result of a tort committed abroad may be sufficient to establish the English court's jurisdiction to hear the claim.[23]
R (Black) v Secretary of State for Justice	[2017] UKSC 81	19 December	Smoking ban in England	The Crown, in respect of the operations of Her Majesty's Prison Service is not bound by the provisions of the smoking ban in England as express provision to bind the Crown as not made in the Health Act 2006.[24]
R (Hysaj) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2017] UKSC 82	21 December	British nationality law, British Nationality Act 1981	Misrepresentations made in applications for citizenship render the applicant to be liable to be deprived of citizenship. However, the concept of nullity only applies where a person applies for citizenship by impersonating another real person and does not apply in other cases were a person adopted a false identity. Persons note impersonating another real person will therefore be entitled to the full appeals process.[25][26]

2018 judgments

Case name	Citation	Date	Legal subject	Summary of decision
R (Haralambous) v Crown Court at St Albans	[2018] UKSC 1	24 January	Constitutional law, Search and seizure	Closed material procedures could be used in a judicial review of a Crown Court decision and there was no minimum core of material that the government was required to disclose to the other party where such procedures were used.[27]
R (Gibson) v Secretary of State for Justice	[2018] UKSC 2	24 January	Criminal Law, Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980	The calculation of days to be taken of a prison term in respect of payments made towards a fine should be calculated by reference to the original confiscation order and should not include any interest that had accrued on the amount due.[28]
R (Bancoult No 3) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs	[2018] UKSC 3	8 February	Constitutional law	The establishment of a Marine Protected Area around the Chagos Islands was not unlawful. The decision made by David Miliband was made in his capacity as an MP and the Carltona Principle could not be invoked to impute an improper motive on civil servants.[29]
Robinson v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police	[2018] UKSC 4	8 February	Tort law, Duty of care in English law	An elderly lady who was knocked to the ground during the attempted arrest of a drug dealer by police officers was owed a duty of care by the police officers involved.[30]
B (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2018] UKSC 5	8 February	Immigration law	The power to grant bail and impose bail conditions in respect of a person who is held pending deportation ceases to be lawful if there is no legal basis for detaining that person.[31]
The Advocate General for Scotland v Romein	[2018] UKSC 6	8 February	Immigration law, British nationality law	Individuals born outside of the UK to British mothers between 1949 and 1983 can apply to be registered as British citizens, irrespective of whether their first was registered at a British consulate.[32]
HM Inspector of Health and Safety v Chevron North Sea Limited	[2018] UKSC 7	8 February	Labour law, Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974	A prohibition notice given under section 22 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 given in respect of corrosion to the stairways of a North Sea oil installation was capable of being appealed. In making the appeal the employer was able to take into account expert evidence produced after the date of the inspection.[33]
In the matter of C (Children)	[2018] UKSC 8	14 February	Family law, Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction	Where a child has become habitually resident in England the a mandatory return to Australia could not be invoked under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Where a parent travels temporarily to another state then, should they decide not to return during the temporary period, this may amount of a 'repudiatory retention' for which the courts could order the return of the child.[34]
SM (Algeria) v Entry Clearance Officer, UK Visa Section	[2018] UKSC 9	14 February	Immigration law	The court held that the cases of Sala v SSHD and Khan v SSHD had been wrongly decided. These cases had previously determined that there was no right of appeal against the refusal of an EEA Residence Card for extended family member. A further three questions were referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union in respect of matters relating to the Citizens' Rights Directive.[35]
R (Mott) v Environment Agency	[2018] UKSC 10	14 February	Constitutional law	The Environment Agency had to pay compensation to Mott for restricting his fishing rights under ECHR Prot 1, art 1, on the right to property.
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v DSD	[2018] UKSC 11	14 February	Constitutional law	There was a positive obligation on police under ECHR article 3 to investigate women's allegations of rape against cab driver, John Worboys.
Barton v Wright Hassall LLP	[2018] UKSC 12	21 February	Civil Procedure Rules	By a majority decision, the court confirmed that litigants in person should not be granted a special status in civil litigation where they were seeking relief from sanctions for breaching the Civil Procedure Rules.[36]
Steel v NRAM Ltd (formerly NRAM Plc)	[2018] UKSC 13	28 February	Tort law	Following Hedley Byrne and Caparo it was not reasonable to rely on a statement about a floating charge.
Burnden Holdings (UK) Ltd v Fielding	[2018] UKSC 14	28 February	Trust law, Limitation Act 1980	For the purpose of the Limitation Act 1980 the directors of a company are to be regarded as trustees of company property with the company being regarded as the beneficiary of the trust. Where a distribution in specie was made by the directors acting in this capacity, no period of limitation would apply to a claim brought against the directors.[37]
Iceland Foods Ltd v Berry (Valuation Officer)	[2018] UKSC 15	7 March	Tax law	A supermarket's air handling system was not subject to rates under the Local Government Finance Act 1988.
Reilly v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council	[2018] UKSC 16	14 March	Labour law	A headteacher was fairly dismissed for failing to disclose a relationship with a child sex offender .
Re Maguire	[2018] UKSC 17	21 March	Constitutional law	A criminal defendant was not entitled to be represented by a barrister under ECHR article 6 in a second trial when the barrister was being disciplined by the NI Bar Council .
Dryden v Johnson Matthey plc	[2018] UKSC 18	21 March	Tort law	Claimants who were exposed to chlorinated platinum salts, and had a heightened risk of allergy, had suffered an actionable personal injury .
JSC BTA Bank v Khrapunov	[2018] UKSC 19	21 March	Tort law	The tort of conspiracy would be committed by attempts to evade a freezing order .
Morris-Garner v One Step (Support) Ltd	[2018] UKSC 20	18 April	Contract law	Damages for breach of a restrictive covenant should be measured by the economic value of the right that is breached .
Gavin Edmondson Solicitors Ltd v Haven Insurance Company Ltd	[2018] UKSC 21	18 April	Equitable Lien	A court only has the power to intervene to enforce a solicitors expectation of payment where the solicitor had an enforceable claim for costs against his client and the usual method of enforcement of that claim (a solicitor's lien) was defeated by direct payment. Where such circumstances were met and payments were made directly from an insurer to a claimant, the insurer was required to pay the costs that would otherwise have been due to the solicitor.[38]
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood	[2018] UKSC 22	25 April 2018	Labour law	The notice of dismissal was only effective when an employee actually read a letter .
R v McCool, R v Harkin	[2018] UKSC 23	2 May	criminal law, Proceeds of Crime Act 2002	My a majority verdict, the court held that a confiscation order could not be made under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in respect of offenses which were committed prior to 24 March 2003. However, such orders could be made in respect of offenses occurring after 24 March 2003 even where such offenses were associated with other offenses occurring before that date.[39]
Rock Advertising Ltd v MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd	[2018] UKSC 24	16 May	Contract law	An "entire agreement" clause was binding on a business, so its eviction for rent arrears was lawful despite an alleged oral agreement that it could renegotiate.
R (Gallaher Group Ltd) v Competition and Markets Authority	[2018] UKSC 25	16 May	Constitutional law	The Office of Fair Trading (now CMA) did not act unlawfully by treating different businesses differently in fulfilling its Competition Act 1998 duties.
Navigators Insurance Company Ltd v Atlasnavios-Navegacao LDA	[2018] UKSC 26	22 May	Commercial law, Insurance Law	A vessel that was confiscated following an inspection in Venezuela which found cocaine strapped to the vessel's hull did not give the owner the right to claim as a war loss under their war risk insurance. The loss arose from the infringement of customs regulations which was a risk that was expressly excluded from the insurance policy.[40]
Human Rights Commission for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland : Abortion)	[2018] UKSC 27	7 June	Abortion in the United Kingdom, European Convention on Human Rights, Offences Against the Person Act 1861, Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945	The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission did not have standing to bring proceedings in respect of whether provisions of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 and Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945 which made it a criminal offence to receive or perform an abortion in Northern Ireland (other than in very limited exceptions) were unlawful as a specific victim had not been identified. Despite the court having no standing to give judgement, a review of the law was recommended.[41]
Cartier International AG v British Telecommunications Plc	[2018] UKSC 28	13 June	Intellectual property, Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988,	An internet service provider that incurs compliance costs tied to website blocking injunctions granted against trademark infringing websites is entitled to be indemnified by the trademark holder against certain costs of implementing and maintaining the blocking order.[42]
Pimlico Plumbers Ltd v Smith	[2018] UKSC 29	13 June	Labour law	A plumber for a firm was a "worker" and entitled to the minimum wage and paid holidays despite a written contract asserting he was "self-employed".
Project Blue Ltd v Revenue and Customs	[2018] UKSC 30	13 June	Tax law, Finance Act 2003	The anti-avoidance provisions of the Finance Act 2003 prevented claim for sub-sale relief in respect of Stamp Duty Land Tax from being effective where the transaction was part of a Ijarah financing arrangement and 'alternative property finance relief' had been claimed by the counter party to the transaction.[43]
JP Whitter (Water Well Engineers) Ltd v Revenue and Customs	[2018] UKSC 31	13 June	Constitutional law, Tax Law	HMRC is not required to take into account the consequences to a tax payer when revoking gross payment status in the Construction Industry Scheme under the Finance Act 2004. In particular revoking gross payment status is not incompatible with Article 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights.[44]
R (Steinfeld and Keidan) v Secretary of State for International Development	[2018] UKSC 32	27 June	Constitutional law, ECHR article 8, ECHR article 14	The provisions of the Civil Partnership Act which only allowed for a civil partnership to be between two persons of the same sex was unlawful as the prohibition of different-sex couples was a breach of Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights (prohibition of discrimination) and Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the right to a private and family life).[45]
Belhaj v Director of Public Prosecutions	[2018] UKSC 33	4 July	Criminal law, Justice and Security Act 2013	A judicial review of a prosecution amounted to criminal proceedings and therefore a closed material procedure (by which the material is disclosed to the court and a special advocate but not the appellants) could not be used as matter was not a civil procedure for which closed material procedures were specifically provided for under the Justice and Security Act 2013.[46]
Goldman Sachs International v Novo Banco SA, Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation Fund and others v Novo Banco SA	[2018] UKSC 34	4 July	Insolvency law, European Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive	A loan of $835m made to Banco Espirito Santo in July 2014 was not transferred to Novo Banco following the failure of the former bank. Whilst the loan was governed by English law the banking reorganization was a matter of Portuguese law and the court was bound to recognize the effect of a decision under Portuguese banking law.[47]
Revenue and Customs v Taylor Clark Leisure Plc	[2018] UKSC 35	11 July	Tax law, Value Added Tax	A company was not entitled to the repayment of VAT resulting form a successful reclaim for overpaid VAT from a former member of its VAT group. Instead where VAT had been overpaid by the representative member of the VAT group then only the representative member (or its agent) could make a claim for repayment.[48]
R v Sally Lane and John Letts	[2018] UKSC 36	11 July	Terrorism financing Terrorism Act 2000	A couple charged with funding terrorism could be guilty of an offence under section 17 of the Terrorism Act 2000 even if they did not actually suspect that their money would be used for terrorist purposes. The test was whether a reasonable person would have "reasonable cause to suspect" the money would be used for such purposes.[49]
Williams v London Borough of Hackney	[2018] UKSC 37	18 July	Children Act 1989, Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights	Section 20 of the Children Act 1989 (which allows a local authority to accommodate a child in need who requires accommodation) does not give local authorities any compulsory powers over parents or their children but the accommodation of children under this section may be lawful until such time as the parents make an unequivocal request for the children to be returned.[50]
Mills v Mills	[2018] UKSC 38	18 July	Family law	Maintenance payments due from one former spouse to the other should not be increased where the cost of living of the spouse in receipt of the payments had increased due to a requirement to rents, which arose as a result of financial mismanagement of a lump sum that had previously been paid, which could have been used to acquire a property.[51]
Prudential Assurance Company Ltd v Revenue and Customs	[2018] UKSC 39	25 July	Tax law, Advance Corporation Tax, Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988	A credit for underlying foreign tax on portfolio dividends should be calculated by reference to the nominal tax rate of the foreign jurisdiction rather than the tax which was actually paid. Compound interest was not due from HMRC to the taxpayer in respect of tax levied in breach of EU law.[52]
James-Bowen & Ors v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	[2018] UKSC 40	25 July	Negligence	The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis did not owe a duty of care to officers in respect of safeguarding their economic and reputational interest where the Commissioner issue a public apology and was involved in litigation involving a previous arrest made by those officers.[53]
Owens v Owens	[2018] UKSC 41	25 July	Family law, Matrimonial Causes Act 1973	Mrs Owens had failed to show that Mr Owns behavior had been sufficiently unreasonable for their marriage to have broken down irretrievably. In the absence of no-fault divorce law in England and Wales the court was therefore not able to grant a divorce to Mrs Owens.[54]
R v Mackinlay	[2018] UKSC 42	25 July	Campaign finance, Representation of the People Act 1983	In a pre-trial appeal it was confirmed that property, goods, services or facilities transferred to or provided for the use or benefit of a candidate free of charge or at a discount were not required to be authorised by the candidate in order to be treated as election expenses.[55]
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro SPA v Playboy Club London Ltd	[2018] UKSC 43	26 July	Tort law	BNL owed no duty of care to the Playboy Club when BNL gave a reference of creditworthiness to an associated company about a customer who subsequently gambled and lost large amounts of money .
Totel Ltd v Revenue and Customs	[2018] UKSC 44	26 July	Tax law	It did not breach the EU law principle of equivalence to require companies pay their VAT before appealing against an assessment for it, even the same rule does not occur for other UK taxes .
R (Bashir) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2018] UKSC 45	30 July	Immigration Law, United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, Cyprus Act 1960	In an interim judgement it was confirmed that the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees applied to the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia but did not entitle the respondents to be resettled in the UK. Other matters related to the case were left to be decided in future judgements.[56]
An NHS Trust v Y	[2018] UKSC 46	30 July	Constitutional law	It was not necessary to have a court order before withdrawing medical life support, unless there are conflicts of medical or family opinion .
R (AR) v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police	[2018] UKSC 47	30 July	Human Rights, Human Rights Act 1998, European Convention on Human Rights	The requirement to protect young and vulnerable people outweighed an individuals right to privacy under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights in respect of the ability for a potential employer to obtain an Enhanced Criminal Record Check from the Disclosure and Barring Service and refuse employment as a result of information disclosed in such a check.[57]
Re McLaughlin	[2018] UKSC 48	30 August	Constitutional law	The requirement to be married or a civil partner, as opposed to cohabiting, to get benefits when a partner dies was incompatible with ECHR article 14.
Lee v Ashers Baking Company Ltd and others	[2018] UKSC 49	10 October	Constitutional law	There was no right to require a baker to write a pro-gay marriage message on a cake, under ECHR article 9 and 10, when the bakers' personal religious views opposed this .
Darnley v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust	[2018] UKSC 50	10 October	Tort law	The NHS trust breached a duty of care by failing to see a patient promptly at A&E and properly advising on waiting times .
Nottingham City Council v Parr	[2018] UKSC 51	10 October	Land law, Housing Act 2004	The Housing Act 2004 allowed for a licence of a house in multiple occupation to limit occupation to a particular class of person (in this case students in full-time education).[58]
Warner v Scapa Flow Charters	[2018] UKSC 52	17 October	Commercial law, Limitation Periods	The Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 had the effect of suspending the limitation period under the Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea. As such, individuals perusing claims in Scotland could have three years to make a claim rather than the two years stated in the Athens Convention.[59]
KO (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, IT (Jamaica) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, NS (Sri Lanka) and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Pereira (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent)	[2018] UKSC 53	24 October	Immigration law, Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002	Misconduct by parents of a child should not form part of the assessment in determining whether a child should be removed from the UK under immigration law. Such misconduct should also not form part of the assessment as to whether Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights requires that the parent remain in the UK with the child.[60]
Dooneen Ltd (t/a McGinness Associates) v Mond	[2018] UKSC 54	31 October	Trust law, Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985	A payment protection insurance claim discovered after a former trustee has made a final dividend will re-vest in the debtor and the termination of the trust has the effect of discharging the debtor and re-investing in the debtor with the trust beneficiaries.[61]
Barnardo's v Buckinghamshire	[2018] UKSC 55	7 November	Pensions, Trust Law	The trustees of a pension scheme for the benefit of staff of Barnardo's were not entitled to replace the Retail Price Index with the Consumer Price Index in calculating increases in pension payments. The specific wording of the pension scheme rules prevented such a change from being made.[62]
Warner-Lambert Company LLC v Generics (UK) Ltd	[2018] UKSC 56	14 November	Patent Law, Patents Act 1977, European Patent Convention	Patents registered by Warner–Lambert did not meeting the appropriate test for plausibility and where therefore invalid for insufficiency but gave conflicting opinions on a number of other matters of patent law.[63]
Regency Villas Title Ltd v Diamond Resorts (Europe) Ltd	[2018] UKSC 57	14 November	Property Law, Easement	Comprehensive rights granted to timeshare owners to use any enjoy sporting facilities (including indoor areas) in an adjacent leisure park satisfied the characteristics of easements and could be enforced by the timeshare owners.[64]
Rhuppiah v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2018] UKSC 58	14 November	Immigration Law, Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Human Rights Act 1998, Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002	Anyone who, not being a UK citizen, has the right to reside in the UK but does not have the right to do so indefinitely, has a precarious status for the purpose of section 117B of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.[65]
R (on the application of Stott) v Secretary of State for Justice	[2018] UKSC 59	28 November	Criminal Justice Act 2003, Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights	The extended determinate sentences scheme does not breach Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights, read with Article 5. The differing treatment of EDS prisoners in relation to early release is within the scope of Article 14 on the grounds of "other status".[66]
Secretary of State for Justice v MM	[2018] UKSC 60	28 November	Mental Health Act 1983, Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights	Where a person is hospitalised on mental health grounds, neither the Secretary of State nor the Mental Health Tribunal are able to impost conditions on discharge which would amount to a deprivation of the patient's liberty.[67]
Volcafe Ltd v Compania Sud Americana De Vapores SA	[2018] UK SC 61	5 December	Shipping Law, Hague Rules	Where cargo was shipped in good condition by was discharged damaged the burden of proof was on the carrier to who that it did not beach it obligations under the Hague Rules to take reasonable care of the goods. Where negligence is to be considered then the burden of proof was on the cargo owner to show that the carrier was negligent.[68]
S Franses Limited v The Cavendish Hotel (London) Ltd	[2018] UKSC 62	5 December	Property Law, Landlord and Tenant Act 1954	A landlord could not oppose the grant of a new tenancy under the provisions of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, which allow for new tenancies to be denied on redevelopment grounds, where the works that the landlord intended to carry out have no purpose other than to remove the tenant and would not be done had the tenant left voluntarily.[69]
London Borough of Southwark v Transport for London	[2018] UKSC 63	5 December	Property Law	Where roads had been transferred from individual London borough councils to the Greater London Authority under the GLA Roads and Side Roads (Transfer of Property etc) Order 2000, the effect of the order was to include the entire vertical plane (i.e. all the airspace above and the subsoil below the surface of the road).[70]
The UK Withdrawal From the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill - A Reference by the Attorney General and the Advocate General for Scotland	[2018] UKSC 64	13 December	Brexit, Constitutional Law	A bill in the Scottish Parliament which had been drafted as an alternative to the EU Withdrawal Bill was (other than in section of one section) within the jurisdiction of the Scottish Parliament. However, subsequent legislation passes by the Parliament of the United Kingdom rendered a further 21 sections invalid.[71]
Williams v The Trustees of Swansea University Pension and Assurance Scheme	[2018] UKSC 65	17 December	Anti-discrimination law Equality Act 2010	An individual with a disability has not suffered any unfavorable treatment where an enhancement to his pension was based on the individual's part-time salary at the time of retirement for ill-health rather than a full-time salary as, when considered overall, his pension terms were more favorable than those of an able bodied person.[72]
Welsh Ministers v PJ	[2018] UKSC 66	17 December	Mental Health Act 1983, Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights	Community Treatment Orders under the Mental Health Act 1983 cannot be imposed where effect of the order would be have the effect of a deprivation of liberty contrary to article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights.[73]
UKI (Kingsway) Limited v Westminster City Council	[2018] UKSC 67	17 December	Property Law, Business Rates, Local Government Finance Act 1988	A "completion notice" issued by Westminster City Council which did not identify the property owner, which was left with owner's agents and was subsequently scanned and emailed to the property owner had been validly served. The Electronic Communications Act 2000 allowed for such noticed to be received by email.[74]

2019 judgments

Case name	Citation	Date	Legal subject	Summary of decision
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 (No 2)	[2019] UKSC 1	14 January	Constitutional law, Devolution in the UK
R (Hallam) v Secretary of State for Justice and R (Nealon) v Secretary of State for Justice	[2019] UKSC 2	30 January	Criminal law	Applicants were not entitled to compensation under section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 for criminal convictions which were subsequently quashed for being unsafe.[75]
R (P) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, R (P, G and W) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Re Lorraine Gallagher for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland)	[2019] UKSC3	30 January	Labour Law, Human rights	Held that the requirement for spent minor criminal convictions to be disclosed to potential employers under the multiple convictions rules is incompatible with Article 8 ECHR [76]
Wells v Devani	[2019] UKSC 4	13 February	Contract Law, Estate Agents Act 1979	A binding contract for the payment of commission had been made between an estate agent and property owner despite the absence of a written contract. Amount of commission reduced as a result of the estate agent breaching Estate Agents Act 1979 s 18 requiring certain terms to be explained to a vendor.[77]
Perry v Raleys Solicitors	[2019] UKSC 5	13 February	Tort law, Professional negligence	In considering whether professional negligence was the cause of a loss where the negligence consisted of a potential lost litigation opportunity it was necessary to consider, on the balance of the probabilities, where such litigation would have been undertaken if non-negligently advised and whether such litigation would have been successful.[78][79]
Cameron v Liverpool Victoria Insurance Co Ltd	[2019] UKSC 6	20 February	Tort law, Insurance Law, Road Traffic Act 1988	The Court concluded that a person, who is not just anonymous but cannot be identified, cannot be sued under a pseudonym or description and as such an insurer cannot be held liable for a claim under Part VI of the Road Traffic Act 1988 where the driver of the vehicle involved in the accident cannot be identified.[80]
In the matter of an application by Geraldine Finucane for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland)	[2019] UKSC 7	27 February	Constitutional law, Public inquiry, Article 2 of the ECHR	It was lawful for the government to have refused to hold a public inquiry into the murder of human rights lawyer but the fact that an appropriate inquiry had not taken place breached Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the right to life).[81]
Konecny v District Court in Brno-Venkov, Czech Republic	[2019] UKSC 8	27 February	Human rights, European Arrest Warrant, Extradition Act 2003, Article 8 of the ECHR	The appeal of an individual against extradition under a European Arrest Warrant was dismissed on the basis that the individual was a convicted person despite having an unequivocal right to a retrial after surrender. The court also dismissed that the passage of time prevented extradition under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.[82]
In the matter of an application by Hugh Jordan for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland)	[2019] UKSC 9	6 March	Human rights, Human Rights Act 1998 Article 2 of the ECHR	The court allowed an appeal against a stay on the award of damages under the Human Rights Act 1998 s 8 for breach of Article 2 of the ECHR confirming that a claim for damages can run concurrently with an inquest.[83]
KV (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2019] UKSC 10	6 March	Immigration law, Right of asylum, Istanbul Protocol	An assessment by a medical expert which referred to the consistency of the clinical findings to the statements by the applicant were not beyond the remit of an expert and were in accordance with the Istanbul Protocol. When considering the likelihood that injuries are self inflicted by proxy (SIBP) rather than torture considerable weight should be given to the fact that such injuries which are SIBP are extremely rare.[84]
Robinson (formerly JR (Jamaica)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2019] UKSC 11	13 March	Immigration Law, Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002	A second human rights claim in an immigration case did automatically trigger a right of appeal once the rights to appeal on an original claim had been exhausted.[85]
HMRC v Joint Administrators of Lehman Brothers International (Europe)	[2019] UKSC 12	13 March 2019	Tax Law	Statutory interest paid under the Insolvency Rules 2016 is considered to be yearly interest and therefore subject to a deduction of tax at source under the provisions of the Income Tax Act 2007[86]
Takhar v Gracefield Developments Limited	[2019] UKSC 13	20 March 2019	Criminal law, Fraud	Where on original judgement has been obtained by reason of the fraudulent conduct of a party and an allegation of fraud has not been raised in the original judgement then it is not necessary for the defrauded party to show that the fraud would have been spotted with reasonable diligence in order for the case to proceed to trial.[87]
SAE Education Ltd v HMRC	[2019] UKSC 14	20 March	Tax Law, VAT, Value Added Tax Act 1994	A commercial provider of university education which did not in itself hold degree awarding powers but collaborated with UK universities to award degrees could be considered to be a "college of a university" for the purpose of exemption from VAT.[88]
Actavis Group PTC EHF v ICOS Corporation	[2019] UKSC 15	27 March	Intellectual property, Patent Law, Patents Act 1977, European Patent Convention	The Court of Appeal was within its powers to interfere with the decision in the High Court in assessing whether dosage testing was obvious and therefore the patent was invalid for lack of an inventive test.[89]
R&S Pilling t/a Phoenix Engineering v UK Insurance Ltd	[2019] UKSC 16	27 March	Tort law, Insurance Law, Road Traffic Act 1988	An insurer was not liable for a fire occurring on private land arising from the insured vehicle where the vehicle was not, at the time, being used as a means of transportation. The Road Traffic Act 1988 s 143 was incompatible with EU law.[90]
Stocker v Stocker	[2019] UKSC 17	3 April	Tort law, English defamation law, Defamation Act 1952	An allegation that he "tried to strangle me" on Facebook did not constitute defamation even if the person making the allegation could not demonstrate that he has actually intended to kill her. Context should be given to the nature of spontaneous social media posts when interpreting their meaning.[91]
R (Newby Foods Ltd) v Food Standards Agency	[2019] UKSC 18	3 April	EU law, Food Safety	Meat remaining on an animal carcass after it has been mechanically butchered which is subsequently removed from that carcass using a mechanical process was mechanically separated meat under EU law and therefore subject to the specific hygiene requirements of EU regulation no 853/2004.[92]
R (Derry) v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs	[2019] UKSC 19	10 April	Tax Law, Income Tax Act 2007	HM Revenue & Customs has not followed the correct process into raising an inquiry into a claim for share loss relief by the taxpayer and therefore were out of time to challenge the loss relief claimed by the taxpayer.[93]
Lungowe v Vedanta Resources plc	[2019] UKSC 20	10 April	Company Law, Tort Law, Conflict of laws	A number of Zambian citizens were entitled to be a group action in the UK courts against Vedanta Resources PLC in respect of alleged harm to the health and farming resources arising from the Nchanga Copper Mine which was operated by a Zambian subsidiary of Vedanta Resources (Konkola Copper Mines).[94]
R (DA) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, R (DS) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	[2019] UKSC 21	15 May	Human rights, Article 14 of the ECHR, Housing Benefit, Welfare Reform Act 2012	The revised lower benefit cap in respect of eligibility for Housing Benefit did not discriminate against lone parents, or lone parents with children under school age, and was therefore considered to be lawful.[95]
R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal	[2019] UKSC 22	15 May	Constitutional law, Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000	By majority decision the court held decisions of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal could be subject to judicial review in the High Court and implied that parliament may not use legislation to "oust" the jurisdiction of the courts to undertake judicial review.[96]
Telereal Trillium v Hewitt (Valuation Officer)	[2019] UKSC 23	15 May	Tax law, Business rates in England, Valuation	In considering the rateable value of a premises in a saturated market the valuation hypothesis must assume there remains a willing tenant who is interested in renting the building with the amount of such rent being determined by reference to the general demand derived from similar premises.[97]
Hancock v HMRC	[2019] UKSC 24	22 May	Tax Law, Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992	The cash redemption of loan notes were the redemption of qualifying corporate bonds and therefore a gain subject to tax under the provisions of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 was crystallized on the redemption of the bonds.[98]
Poole Borough Council v GN	[2019] UKSC 25	6 June	Tort law, Negligence, Vicarious Liability, Children Act 1989	Poole Borough Council had not breached their duty of care in respect of children placed in local authority housing where the children had been subject to harassment and abuse by neighbours. The court found that X v Bedfordshire CC was no longer good law.[99]
In the matter of an application by Dennis Hutchings for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland)	[2019] UKSC 26	6 June	Constitutional law, Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007, non-jury trial	The Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland was entitled to file a certificate under the Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007 for a former British Army soldier to be tried in a Diplock court by a judge alone (without a jury) in respect of a killing made by the soldier during the Troubles[100]
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd	[2019] UKSC 27	12 June	Tort law, Defamation, Defamation Act 2013	The court ruled that section 1 of the Defamation Act 2013 imposed a new threshold over the common law interpretation of defamation, being that the harm caused had to be serious. It was found that the damage to reputation of the individual in this case did not cause serious harm.[101]
Samuels v Birmingham City Council	[2019] UKSC 28	12 June	Administrative law, Housing Benefit, Housing Act 1996	An individual had not made herself intentionally homeless due to failing to pay her rent since her income had been less than her reasonable living expenses when living in her last settled accommodation.[102]
Sveriges Angfartygs Assurans Forening (The Swedish Club) v Connect Shipping Inc	[2019] UKSC 29	12 June	Tort law, Insurance Law, Marine Insurance Act 1906	Under the Marine Insurance Act 1906 a ship is a total loss if the costs of repairing the damage exceed the value of the ship. It was held that the costs of repair should include all reasonable costs of salving and safeguarding the ship but would exclude Special Compensation, Protection and Indemnity Clause (SCOPIC) costs.[103]
OWD Ltd t/a Birmingham Cash and Carry v HMRC	[2019] UKSC 30	19 June	Tax Law, Alcohol Duties Liquor Act 1979, Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005	HMRC does not have the power under the Alcohol Duties Liquor Act 1979 or Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 to permit temporary trading in respect of wholesale supplies of alcohol pending an appeal against a refusal to grant approval for such trading under the Alcohol Wholesalers Registration Scheme.[104]
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Gubeladze	[2019] UKSC 31	19 June	EU law, Proportionality, Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006, Citizens’ Rights Directive	An individual was entitled to Pension Credit despite having not been registered for three years under the United Kingdom EU Worker Registration Scheme and that the extension to the registration scheme in 2008 was not proportionate as they only gave small and speculative benefits but could have substantial and series effects on individuals.[105]
Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd	[2019] UKSC 32	3 July	Labour law, Contract law, Restrictive covenants,	A restrictive covenant in an employment contract which prevented the employee from holding any shareholding (of any size) in a competitor following cessation of employment was too broad and was therefore unenforceable. This part of the clause was required to be severed from the covenants.[106]
London Borough of Lambeth v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government	[2019] UKSC 33	3 July	Land law, Planning Law, Town and Country Planning Act 1990	Where planning permission had been granted for retail development subject to restrictions and a subsequent application was made to modify or remove an existing restriction then, even if the subsequent planning permission does not include specific restrictions, this does not necessarily mean there are no restrictions.[107]
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v MM	[2019] UKSC 34	18 July	Administrative law, Welfare Reform Act 2012, Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013	A benefit claimed was entitled to claim personal independence payment partly on the basis that they needed support to engage with other people because of mental health problems. The government's narrow and technical view of the scope of the regulations was rejected.[108]
Secretary of State for the Home Department v Franco Vomero (Italy)	[2019] UKSC 35	24 July	EU law, Citizens’ Rights Directive, Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006	An individual had not acquire a right of permanent residence and was prevented from acquiring such a right following the adoption of the Citizens’ Rights Directive by virtue of serious criminal convictions. (Following referral of questions to the European Court of Justice).[109]
R (Association of Independent Meat Suppliers) v Food Standards Agency	[2019] UKSC 36	24 July	EU law, Food Safety, Food Safety Act 1990, Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013	The court made no decision and referred two questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union being a) Do EU regulations (Nos 854/2004 and 882/2004 preclude certain procedures undertaken pursuant to the Food Safety Act 1990, and b) Whether EU regulation 882/2004 mandates a right of appeal against decisions of Official Veterinarians.[110]
X v Kuoni Travel Ltd	[2019] UKSC 37	24 July	Contract Law, Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tours Regulations 1992	In respect of whether a tour operator was liable for damages for a breach of contract where a hotel guest was sexually assaulted the court referred the questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union on the Package Holiday Directive 90/314/EEC.[111]
Cape Intermediate Holdings Ltd v Dring (for and on behalf of Asbestos Victims Support Groups Forum UK)	[2019] UKSC 38	29 July	Administrative law, Civil Procedure Rules	A person who is not a party to court proceedings may obtain a number of documents that are held in count during proceedings but does not necessarily have a right to every document. The constitutional principle of open justice may require access to be given to further documents than those that are permitted by right under the Civil Procedure Rules.[112]
Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs v Frank A Smart & Son Ltd	[2019] UKSC 39	29 July	Tax law, Value Added Tax	The taxpayer was entitled to recover input VAT under the Principal VAT Directive on costs incurred in respect of the purchase of single farm payment entitlements with the key testing on whether recovery was available being how the subsidy was to be used by the business.[113]
Akçilv Koza Ltd	[2019] UKSC 40	29 July	Company law, Conflict of laws, Legal Jurisdiction, Brussels I Recast Regulation	The English courts did not have jurisdiction in respect of a claim brought by trustee shareholders of Koza Altın (a Turkish company) over changes made to the constitutional documents of a UK subsidiary. Whether the Turkish parent had acted validly was a matter for the Turkish Courts.[114]
R (Miller) v The Prime Minister and Cherry v Advocate General for Scotland	[2019] UKSC 41	24 September	Constitutional law	The Prime Minister's advice to Her Majesty to exercise the prerogative power to prorogue Parliament was unlawful as it prevented Parliament from exercising its constitutional functions, and the resulting prorogation was thus void and of no effect. Decided by 11 judges.[115]
In the matter of D (A Child)	[2019] UKSC 42	26 September	Constitutional law, Liberty, Children Act 1989, Article 5 of the ECHR, Article 8 of the ECHR	Where a 16 or 17 year old lacks capacity to give their own consent, it is not possible for the parents of the individual to give consent to living arrangements which would amount to a deprivation of liberty. Instead an application must be made under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards regime.[116]
Routier v HMRC	[2019] UKSC 43	16 October	Tax law, Inheritance Tax Act 1984	The restriction in the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 for exemptions of legacies to charities to UK charities violated the EU law principle of the freedom of movement of capital.[117]
Gilham v Ministry of Justice	[2019] UKSC 44	16 October	Labour law, Employment Rights Act 1996, Article 10, ECHR, Article 14, ECHR	A district judge was entitled to whistleblower protections by virtue of being a 'worker' despite not being an employee under the Employment Rights Act 1996. Failure to offer such protection would interfere with the right to freedom of expression, protected under Article 10, ECHR.[118]
Shanks v Unilever Plc	[2019] UKSC 45	23 October	Intellectual property, Patent Law, Patents Act 1977	The system for measuring glucose concentration by an employee of Unilever had provided an outstanding benefit to the company and the employee was entitled to a fair share of that benefit.[119]
The Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd v Vauxhall Motors Ltd (Formerly General Motors UK Ltd)	[2019] UKSC 46	23 October	Land law, Equitable Relief from Forfeiture	Relief from forfeiture can be given in respect of possessory rights over land where the contract grants either proprietary or possessory rights over land and the termination provision was included in the contract as security of the payment of a sum.[120]
Sequent Nominees Ltd v Hautford Ltd	[2019] UKSC 47	30 October	Land law, Leasehold Reform Act 1967	A landlord had not unreasonably refused consent for a tenant to apply for planning permission where refusing to grant such consent was an additional safeguard to protect the landlord against the risk of enfranchisement under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967[121]
Travelers Insurance Company Ltd v XYZ	[2019] UKSC 48	30 October	Administrative law, Costs in English law, Insurance Law, Senior Courts Act 1981	An insurance company which was not a party to the original case but was the insurer of one of the parties was not liable for costs under section 51 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 where it did not engage in 'unjustified intermeddling'.[122]
In the matter of NY (A Child)	[2019] UKSC 49	30 October	Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985	An appeal under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales was set aside.[123]
Singularis Holdings Ltd (In Official Liquidation) (A Company Incorporated in the Cayman Islands) v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd	[2019] UKSC 50	30 October	Tort law, Duty of Care, Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945	A bank which executes a fraudulent instruction to transfer funds out of a company's account can be held as liably for a breach of its duty of care even if the instruction to transfer the money was made by the controlling shareholders and directors of the company.[124]
R v Reeves Taylor	[2019] UKSC 51	13 November	Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996, Criminal Appeal Act 1968	In order for a person to be guilt of torture under section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 the defendant must be acting in an official capacity for a regime or government and the regime must have some kind of control over the area in which the alleged crime took place.[125]
RR v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	[2019] UKSC 52	13 November	Human rights, Housing Benefit, Housing Benefit Regulations 2006, Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017	Housing benefit should be calculated without deduction of the 'bedroom tax'. Following R (Carmichael) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, making such a deduction would be incompatible with Article 14 of the ECHR and a public authority would be required to disregard a legislative provision where its application would result in a breach of the convention.[126]
R (Wright) v Resilient Energy Severndale Ltd and Forest of Dean District Council	[2019] UKSC 53	20 November	Land law, Planning Law, Town and Country Planning Act 1990, Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004	Local authorities must expressly satisfy the Newbury Principles when granting planning permission. In order for consideration to be 'material' it must be for a planning purpose and not an ulterior purpose and be both fair and reasonable in relation to the development. Upholds the wider principle that planning permission cannot be bought or sold.[127]
Edwards on behalf of the Estate of the late Thomas Arthur Watkins v Hugh James Ford Simey Solicitors	[2019] UKSC 54	20 November	Tort law, Professional Negligence	The Bwllfa principle was not relevant to the after date evidence that had been provided to the court and the case was remitted back to the lower courts to determine the value of the loss of opportunity.[128]
Royal Mail Group Ltd v Jhuti	[2019] UKSC 55	27 November	Labour law, Employment Rights Act 1996, Whistleblowing	If an employee is dismissed by virtue of a false reason given to the person responsible for making the dismissal then, even if the person responsible has a genuine belief in the false reason, then the actual reason for dismissal is in face the hidden reason that was not disclosed to the decision maker.[129]
R (Hemmati) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2019] UKSC 56	27 November	Immigration law, Illegal immigration, Right of asylum	The policy to detain persons who had sought asylum in another EU State where the claims were referred to an EU State under the Dublin III Regulation under the Immigration Act 1971 failed to comply with the Dublin III Regulation as it lacked adequate certainty and predictability.[130]
MacDonald v Carnbroe Estates Ltd	[2019] UKSC 57	4 December	Insolvency law, Gratuitous alienations on insolvency, Insolvency Act 1986	Where a property had been sold for £550,000 but only £470,000 had been paid and a higher price could have been achieved with a proper marketing process then there had been a gratuitous alienation prior to insolvency. In considering the available remedy, a flexible approach can be taken to take account of the consideration which a bona fide purchaser would have paid.[131]
R (Lancashire County Council) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, R (NHS Property Services Ltd) v Surrey County Council	[2019] UKSC 58	11 December	Land law, Statutory Incompatibility	The specific public interest contained in the statutory purpose for which the land was actually held outweighed the public interest in registering the land as a town or village green under the Commons Act 2006.[132]
Patel v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Secretary of State for the Home Department v Shah	[2019] UKSC 59	16 December	Immigration Law, Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006, TFEU, Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU	The Zambrano principle applied to allow a parent of a dependent child who was a resident to a non EU member state to reside in the UK as the primary carer of a British citizen but did not provide the same rights for another individual in respect of their elderly parent as there was not a 'relationship of dependency'.[133]
Miller v Ministry of Justice	[2019] UKSC 60	16 December	Labour law, Part-time Work Directive 1997, Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000	Judges who had held one or more appointments as fee-paid part-time judges had been subject to less favourable treatment in respect of the provision of a pension and were entitled to pensions in respect of their former part-time service.[134]

2020 judgments

Case name	Citation	Date	Legal subject	Summary of decision
FMX Foods Merchants Import Export Co Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs	[2020] UKSC 1	29 January	Tax law, Customs Code of the EU	HMRC could issue a post-clearance demand (in respect of customs duty) after the expiry of the normal three year time limit where criminal proceedings were relevant. However, HMRC cannot issue demands unitarily without any time limit as this would be in breach of the fundamental principle of legal certainty under EU law.[135]
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	[2020] UKSC 2	5 February	Constitutional law, Devolution in the UK	Providing postcode lists to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions was not a "devolution issue" or capable of being incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. Therefore, the Supreme Court refused to accept the application by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland.[136]
R (on the application of Samuel Smith Old Brewery (Tadcaster)) v North Yorkshire County Council	[2020] UKSC 3	5 February	Land law, Planning Law, Town and Country Planning Act 1990	Planning permission granted by North Yorkshire County Council for the expansion of a quarry did not breech the National Planning Policy Framework in respect of mineral extraction in the green belt as the "openness" of the green belt would be preserved.[137]
R (on the application of Jalloh (Liberia)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2020] UKSC 4	12 February	Immigration Law, False Imprisonment	Conditions of bail under the provisions of the Immigration Act 1971 which required an individual who lacked immigration status to stay at home for eight hours a day constituted false imprisonment.[138]
Micula v Romania	[2020] UKSC 5	19 February	International law, Arbitration	The English courts have the power to stay execution of an award by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the UK's enforforcement of obligations under and the ICSID Convention are unaffected by the EU Treaties.[139]
In the matter of an application by Deborah McGuinness for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland)	[2020] UKSC 6	19 February	Administrative law, Jurisdiction	The supreme court did not have the jurisdiction to hear appeals in respect of when Ulster loyalist Michael Stone can be released from prison.[140]
R (on the application of DN (Rwanda)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2020] UKSC 7	26 February	Immigration Law, False Imprisonment	An order to detain and individual prior to deportation under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 was unlawful and the individual could due for damages for false imprisonment.[141]
R v Copeland	[2020] UKSC 8	11 March	Criminal law, Explosive Substances Act 1883	A person was not guilty under section 4(1) of the Explosive Substances Act 1883 where the explosives were being used for experimentation and self-education and did not have an ulterior unlawful purpose.[142]
MS (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2019] UKSC 9	18 March	Human rights, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery	Immigration tribunals can make findings of fact and are not bound by a Home Office decision in determining whether Article 4 of the ECHR would be breached. The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings requirements can form part of the positive obligations owed by the State under Article 4 of the European Convention.[143]
Elgizouli v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2020] UKSC 10	25 March	Human Rights, Death Penalty, Data Protection Act 2018	A decision by the government to co-operate with US law enforcement over the prosecution was two alleged Islamic State members was unlawful without assurance from the US that the individuals would not face the death penalty.[144]
Aspen Underwriting Ltd v Credit Europe Bank NV	[2020] UKSC 11	1 April	Conflicts of laws, Insurance law, Jurisdiction	The High Court of England and Wales did not have jurisdiction to hear claims relating to fraudulent misrepresentation following the loss of an insured vessel. Since Credit Europe Bank was domiciled in the Netherlands, the case should be heard in the courts of the Netherlands.[145]
WM Morrisons Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants	[2020] UKSC 12	1 April	Tort law, Vicarious Liability, Data Protection	Morrisons were not vicariously liable in respect of actions taken by a vengeful employee who posted the personal data of 100,000 employees online, an action which was in breach of duties imposed the by Data Protection Act 1998.[146][147]
Barclays Bank plc v Various Claimants	[2020] UKSC 13	1 April	Tort law, Vicarious Liability	Barclays Bank PLC was not vicariously liable for the acts of a self-employed doctor who was engaged to carry out medical examinations of its staff and was accused of sexual assault.[148]
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust v XX	[2020] UKSC 14	1 April	Tort Law, medical negligence	Damages payable by Whittington Hospital NHS Trust to a woman who could not bear children following earlier medical negligence could include the costs of surrogacy through commercial agreements abroad.[149]
Zipvit Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs	[2020] UKSC 15	1 April	Tax Law, Value Added Tax	The court referred a case relating to whether a trader can deduct input VAT in the absence of a VAT invoice and whether a trader has an entitlement to deduct VAT on supplies which are carried out by another entity to the Court of Justice of the European Union[150]
R (Palestine Solidarity Campaign Ltd) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government	[2020] UKSC 16	29 April	Labour law, Pensions, Public Service Pensions Act 2013	Ministerial guidance to administering authorities of Local Government Pension Scheme funds on how to discharge their investment powers was unlawful as the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 did not allow central government to impose policy on administering authorities.[151]
AM (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2020] UKSC 17	29 April	Human rights, Criminal deportation, Article 3 of the ECHR	The deportation of an individual who had come to the UK as a teenager from Zimbabwe and was subsequently convicted of a number of serious offences was blocked amid concerns his life would be shortened by HIV and suitable medical care was not available in Zimbabwe. This upheld the position established in Paposhvili v Belgium.[152]
Duval v 11-13 Randolph Crescent Ltd	[2020] UKSC 18	6 May	Land law	A landlord was in breach of its obligations to enforce tenant covenants where the landlord had granted a licence to a tenant to undertake structural works as the granting of such a licence had put the landlord out of its power to enforce an absolute covenant preventing structural works.[153]
R v Adams (Northern Ireland)	[2020] UKSC 19	13 May	Unlawful Detention, Detention of Terrorists (Northern Ireland) Order 1972	The detention of Gerry Adams for his attempts to escape from the Maze Prison in the 1970s was unlawful as the custody order had not been authorised personally by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and therefore did not meet the requirements of the Detention of Terrorists (Northern Ireland) Order 1972.[154]
Dill v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and another	[2020] UKSC 20	20 May	Land law, Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990	The status of two lead urns placed on limestone plinths which had been classified as listed buildings were able to be revisited by a planning inspector in considering whether or not they were in face 'buildings'.[155]
Cardtronics UK Ltd v Sykes (Valuation Officers)	[2020] UKSC 21	20 May	Tax Law, Business Rates	Cash machines located inside and outside of retail stores were not separate hereditaments from the stores or shops and as such should not have been subject to separate business rates on top of normal store rates.[156]
Fowler v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs	[2020] UKSC 22	20 May	Tax Law, Income tax, Labour law	Despite the presence of a deeming provision in the Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 which treated a deep-sea diver as being self-employed for UK tax purposes, the actual relationship was that of employment and the diver should be considered to receive the income in respect of an employment when applying the tax treaty between the UK and South Africa.[157]
Serafin v Malkiewicz	[2020] UKSC 23	3 June	Tort law, Libel	A libel case was overturned after the court found that Justice Robert Jay had not allowed a claim to be properly presented. Further, he had harassed and intimidated the claimant therefore the original trial was unfair. A retrial was ordered.[158]
Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd v Visa Europe Services LLC and Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd v MasterCard Incorporated	[2020] UKSC 24	19 June	Competition Law, Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union	Interchange fees levied by Visa Inc. and Mastercard infringed Competition Law (namely article 101(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union). The judgement could have significant implications with potentially billions in damages being due.[159]
Bresco Electrical Services Ltd (in liquidation) v Michael J Lonsdale (Electrical) Ltd	[2020] UKSC 25	17 June	Insolvency law, Adjudication	Adjudication on the application of a liquidator of a company is not incompatible with the insolvency process and the existence of the insolvency set-off does not result in a claim ceasing to exist. The fact that an adjudication award cannot be enforced immediately does not mean that the adjudication process is futile.[160]
ABC v Principal Reporter and another and In the matter of XY	[2020] UKSC 26	18 June	Human rights, Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011, Article 6 of the ECHR, Article 8 of the ECHR	It is not a breach of the right to family life for a child's siblings to be denied "relevant person" status (being a person who has had significant involvement in the upbringing of the child and is therefore entitled to be notified of and attend any children's hearing).[161]
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc v Kymab Ltd	[2020] UKSC 27	24 June	Intellectual property, Patent Law, European Patent Convention	The claims by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc in respect of patents registered for a new type of genetically modified mouse which included a hybrid version of the gene that produces antibodies was invalid as the patents failed to adhere to the rule of sufficiency (being that documents filed with the patent need to be detailed enough to enable scientifically skilled readers to recreate the invention).[162]
HMRC v K E Entertainments Ltd	[2020] UKSC 28	24 June	Tax Law, Value Added Tax, Value Added Tax Regulations 1995	A change in calculating a price apportionment for a bingo promoter between the stake (outside of the scope of VAT) and a participation fee (subject to VAT) did not result in a decrease in the total consideration that enabled the taxpayer to claim a VAT adjustment under the Value Added Tax Regulations 1995.[163]
R v Hilton	[2020] UKSC 29	1 July	Criminal law, Proceeds of Crime Act 2002	There is no automatic right for third party with an interest in property to make representations at the first stage confiscation proceedings in respect of that property under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 where such representations could be made later at the enforcement stage.[164]
Villiers v Villiers	[2020] UKSC 30	1 July	Family law, Jurisdiction, Matrimonial Causes Act 1973	A maintenance claim could be pursued in England, where the claimant was now residing, rather than Scotland, despite the fact that the petition for divorce was filed in Scotland and the couple had lived in Scotland for most of their marriage. It was considered that the judgement might encourage 'divorce tourism' where differing settlements arise under English Law and Scots Law.[165]
Sevilleja v Marex Financial Ltd	[2020] UKSC 31	15 July	Company law, Tort Law, Reflective loss	The reflective loss principle should be strictly limited to cases where claims are brought by a shareholder in respect of a loss suffered by in their capacity as a shareholder and should not apply to claims by creditors.[166]
Sutherland v Her Majesty’s Advocate	[2020] UKSC 32	15 July	Human Rights, Article 8 of the ECHR	A covert investigation by paedophile hunters and the use by authorities of evidence collected from this investigation did not breach an individuals right to a private life under Article 8 of the ECHR.[167]
Lehtimaki and others v Cooper	[2020] UKSC 33	29 July	Company law, Trust Law, Charity Law	The courts were able to dictate to the directors of The Children's Investment Fund Foundation, a charitable company, in how to exercise their powers absent a breach of fiduciary duty.[168]
Shagang Shipping Company Ltd v HNA Group Company Ltd	[2020] UKSC 34	5 August	Administrative law, Evidence, Civil Evidence Act 1995	It would permissible for a trial judge, in determining whether a bribe had been paid, to have regard to the possibility that a forced confession of bribery had been obtained by way of torture (and would therefore be inadmissible), even if actual torture had not been proved.[169]
Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs v Parry and others	[2020] UKSC 35	19 August	Tax Law, Inheritance Tax Act 1984	A transfer between pensions was not a 'transfer of value' for the purpose of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 as the motive for the transfer was not to confer a benefit on another. However, the failure by an individual to take up their rights to pension benefits was a 'transfer of value' which would be subject to Inheritance Tax.[170]
Peninsula Securities Ltd v Dunnes Stores (Bangor) Ltd	[2020] UKSC 36	19 August	Contract law, Restraint of trade, Property Law	A restriction on a property owner from allowing further retail units from being built in a shopping center which would be in direct competition with an anchor tenant was a reasonable and proportionate restrictive covenant and therefore was enforceable by the anchor tenant.[171]
Unwired Planet International Ltd and another v Huawei Technologies (UK) Co Ltd and another, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and another v Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL, ZTE Corporation and another v Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL	[2020] UKSC 37	26 August	Intellectual property, Patent law, Jurisdiction	The English courts have the jurisdiction to settle a global licence on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms in respect of a multinational standard essential patents portfolio. The grant of an injunction of against an infringing party that declines a FRAND licence is both appropriate and proportionate.[172]
Enka Insaat Ve Sanayi A.S. v OOO Insurance Company Chubb	[2020] UKSC 38	9 October	Insurance Law Arbitration	Where an arbitration agreement does not specify a governing law then the law of the underlying main contract will ordinarily govern the arbitration agreement. Where the main contract does not specify a governing law then it is for the courts to determine the law with which the arbitration agreement is most closely connected.[173]
R (on the application of Highbury Poultry Farm Produce Ltd) v Crown Prosecution Service	[2020] UKSC 39	16 October 2020	Animal welfare, Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (England) Regulations 2015	Offences incurred under the Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (England) Regulations 2015 are strict liability offences and as such there was no requirement to prove negligence by the business operating a slaughterhouse where a breach of the regulations had occurred.[174]
R (on the application of Z and another) v Hackney London Borough Council and another	[2020] UKSC 40	16 October 2020	Equality, Equality Act 2010	The practices of a charity which provided social housing available primarily to the Orthodox Jewish community was proportionate to meet the needs or alleviate the disadvantages suffered by a particular group and therefore constituted permissible direct discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. The exemptions from the Act which allow charities to restrict the provision to benefits for the purpose of preventing or compensating for a disadvantage linked to the protected characteristic is not subject to a further test for proportionality.[175]
R (on the application of Pathan)v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2020] UKSC 41	23 October 2020	Immigration Law	The treatment by the Home Office of an individual who had applied for an extension of his skilled worker visa in good time and which had been refused on the basis that the Secretary of State had revoked the licence of his sponsoring employer without informing the individual, was unfair.[176]
Stoffel & Co v Grondona	[2020] UKSC 42	30 October 2020	Illegality in English law, Professional Negligence	Despite the illegality of her actions, a person who had engaged in mortgage fraud was not barred from bringing a claim for professional negligence against her solicitors for negligently failing to register the forms for the transfer of the property.[177]
Ecila Henderson v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust	[2020] UKSC 43	30 October 2020	Mental health law, Medical Negligence, Illegality in English law	A NHS Foundation Trust, which had accepted that it has been negligent in respect of the care of a person receiving care for paranoid schizophrenia, was not required to pay compensation to the individual where the individual subsequently incurred a loss as a result of committing a serious criminal act.[178]
Secretary of State for Health v Servier Laboratories Ltd	[2020] UKSC 44	6 November 2020	EU law, Res judicata	The doctorine of Res judicata (preventing a party from re-litigating any claim) did not mean that decision of the General Court of the European Union was binding on domestic proceedings as not all rights of appeal had been exhausted.[179]
Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust v Housing Solutions Ltd	[2020] UKSC 45	6 November 2020	Property Law, Law of Property Act 1925	A developer who was seeking to develop land in breach of a restrictive covenant which prevented the development of land adjoining a children's cancer hospice could not rely on the covenant being "contrary to public interest" where it had already breached the covenant by its own actions.[180]
R (on the application of Maughan) v Her Majesty's Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire	[2020] UKSC 46	13 November 2020	Standard of Proof, Coroners and Justice Act 2009	The standard of proof required in order to reach determinations of suicide and unlawful killing at inquests is the civil standard of proof (the balance of probabilities) rather than the criminal standard of proof (beyond reasonable doubt).[181]
Test Claimants in the Franked Investment Income Group Litigation & Others v Commissioners of Inland Revenue	[2020]UKSC 47	20 November 2020	Tax Law, Advance corporation tax, Limitation Act 1980	The Limitation Act 1980 applies to claims for restitution of monies paid under a mistake of law. The six year period allowed under the Limitation Act applies from the date on which the claimant has discovered the mistake (or could have reasonably discovered it) rather than the date on which the loss was made. When relying on another judgement to determine whether a claim is possible, the date on which a claimant could reasonable have discovered a loss may be earlier than the date of that other judgement if, using reasonable diligence, the claimant could have discovered that they had a worthwhile claim.[182]
Halliburton Company v Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd	[2020] UKSC 48	27 November 2020	Insurance Law, Arbitration	An arbitrator has a duty to make disclosures of matters that might reasonably be considered to give rise to doubts as to their impartiality in respect of a matter they are seeking to resolve. In the specific circumstances of the case in hand, the court found that there were not justifiable doubts as to the arbitrators impartiality.[183]
Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs v London Clubs Management Ltd	[2020] UKSC 49	27 November 2020	Tax Law, Gaming Duty	Non-negotiable gaming chips and free bet vouchers issued by a casino as promotional tolls in order to encourage customers to gamble did not have any monetary value and therefore are not required to be taken into account in computing the profits of the casino for the purpose of calculating gaming duty.[184]

2021 judgments

Case name	Citation	Date	Legal subject	Summary of decision
Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd & others	[2021] UKSC 1	15 January		Determining whether commercial insurance for "business interruption" covers claims due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[185]

See also

• Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
• English law
• Scots law
• Northern Irish law
• Stare decisis
• UK constitutional law
• English criminal law
• UK tax law
• UK labour law
• UK company law
• UK insolvency law
• English tort law
• English contract law
• English trusts law
• English land law

Notes and References

1. Procedural issue before the main appeal reported at UKSC 15
2. This issue was heard by a diminished panel of 3 judges
3. An augmented panel of 7 judges sat in this case
4. An augmented panel of 9 judges sat in this case
5. This was an application made to the court to temporarily suspend the operation of an order made at [2010] UKSC 2
6. The court was asked to extend the terms of an anonymity order made at [2010] UKSC 24
7. The court made an order regarding the distribution of costs, main judgment at [2010] UKSC 14
8. This judgment was simply a clarification of details of an order made in the previous judgement at [2010] UKSC 45
9. The Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger also sat in on this case and gave a judgment that formed the unanimous majority.
10. Lord Rodger died before judgment was given in this case. He indicated that he would join the majority.
11. Judgment given outside of term time
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180. "Supreme Court Dismisses Developers' Appeal In Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust v Housing Solutions Limited". Irwin Mitchell LLP. 9 November 2020.
181. "Dispute Resolution Blog". LexisNexis.
182. "Supreme Court restricts limitation period for mistake of law claims". Simmons & Simmons. 4 December 2020.
183. "From Deepwater to clear water? Has the Supreme Court clarified when an arbitrator is apparently biased?". Stewarts Law LLP. 27 November 2020.
184. "Free betting vouchers and gaming chips issued by casinos not liable to gaming duty". The Times. 8 December 2020.
185. "Insurers must pay small firms for Covid lockdown losses". BBC News. 15 January 2021.

External links

• Official website for UK Supreme Court decided cases