In 2021 Lady Hale is the President of the Supreme Court, Baron Mance is the Deputy President.
The table lists judgments made by the court and the opinions of the judges in each case. Judges are treated as having concurred in another's judgment when they either formally attach themselves to the judgment of another or speak only to acknowledge their concurrence with one or more judges. Any judgment which reaches a conclusion which differs from the majority on one or more major points of the appeal has been treated as dissent.
All dates are for 2021 unless expressly stated otherwise.
2021 case summaries
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.
On the scope of extraterritorial application of the Serious Fraud Office, the SFO does not have the power to compel a foreign company to produce documents held outside of the United Kingdom.[citation needed]
Registration of land as a green does not criminalize pre-existing activities and local people have to exercise their rights over a town or village green in a fair and reasonable way.[citation needed]
Drivers for Uber were "workers" within the definition in section 230(3)(b) of the Employment Rights Act 1996, and were thus entitled to the minimum wage and holiday pay.[citation needed]
For ship collision avoidance regulations, the crossing rules ought to be applied wherever possible and strictly enforced because they tend to secure safe navigation.[citation needed]
The Home Secretary appealed an earlier decision by the Court of Appeal in the case of Shamima Begum whose citizenship had been removed and who currently resides in a detainment camp in Syria.[citation needed]
A return order in child abduction proceedings cannot be implemented until the appeal in any asylum claim made by the child or with the child as a dependant has been determined.[citation needed]
Employees working in Asda's stores can use as comparators employees working in Asda's distribution centres for the purposes of an equal pay claim.[citation needed]
Land granted to a county council under the School Sites Act 1841 for use as a school did not cease to be used for that purpose, and therefore did not revert to the donor's estate, when the school moved to a new site and the land was sold with vacant possession, with the intention that the proceeds of sale would be used towards paying off the costs of acquiring the new site.[citation needed]
The lawyer committed criminal contempt of court by leaking a draft of the UKSC's judgment backing Heathrow Airport's expansion plans a day before the ruling was officially released.[citation needed]
In a 'midnight deadline' case, the limitation period starts on the day rather than the following day and thus the appellant's claim was time barred.[citation needed]
The Manchester Building Society could bring a claim for damages against Grant Thornton as a result of negligent accounting advice which ultimately resulted in MBS closing a number of hedges at a loss.[2]
The burden of proof in discrimination claims lies with the claiment, in this case the employee, who must provide facts from which a tribunal could draw an inference of discrimination.[5]
The decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union determined that an employee of hotel which is booked through a package travel organiser is not himself a 'supplier of services' but that a travel organiser may still be liable for the acts of the employee if they constitute improper performance under the contract. Following this judgement the supreme court found that the deliberate acts of a hotel employee, in sexually assaulting a guest, constituted an improper performance of the tour operator's obligations and therefore the operator was liable for breach of contract.[6]
The High Court's inherent jurisdiction can be used to authorise the deprivation of liberty in order to keep a child safe from harm where no alternative route for safeguarding the child is available (in this case a lack of resource in the child care system). The court's may cut across relevant provisions of the Children Act 1989 when using their inherent jurisdiction in such cases and in doing so are not in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.[7]
Where defendants and an interested party each incurred costs of preparing acknowledgments of service and summary grounds then there was no general rule in planning cases limiting the number of parties that can recover such costs.[8][9]
Test for a police force, when approached for information regarding a person about whom concerns are raised relating to their contact with children, is obliged in law to seek representations from the person before disclosing any information.[10]
Review when a taxpayer is prevented from challenging the validity of an enquiry into their tax return by HMRC where both parties have proceeded, for nearly a decade, on the mistaken assumption that the enquiry was validly initiated by a letter sent to the taxpayer.[12]
The UNCRC Bill and ECLSG Bill passed by the Scottish Parliament were outside its legislative competence; the Bills are to return to the Scottish Parliament for further consideration.[15]
The government did not breach its obligations under the relevant EU directives to provide effective interim protection for successful workplace discrimination and harassment claims.[17]
Where the directors of a company had exploited their position and were in breach of their fiduciary duties to the company of which they were directors (in this case by making a secret profit of $4.55m) then another company to whom the proprietary rights were assigned could seek to recover the funds from the directors. As the directors had acted in breach of their fiduciary duties then the proceeds from their criminal acts were held on constructive trust for the company of which they were directors.[22]
↑ The 2021 judgement in X v Kuoni Travel Ltd is a further judgement to the case heard in 2019 (X v Kuoni Travel Ltd (UKSC 34)) following a decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union
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This is a list of the judgments given by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in the year 2017.
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