This is a list of the judgments given by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in the year 2024.
In 2024Lady 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 2024 unless expressly stated otherwise.
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.
Case name | Citation | Date | Legal subject | Summary of decision |
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Paul & Anor v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust | [2024] UKSC 1 | 11 January 2024 | Tort law, Nervous shock | A person cannot claim compensation for a recognised psychiatric illness caused by witnessing the death or injury of a close family member or other loved one due to medical negligence. Such an event is not discrete enough to qualify as a recognisable accident that incurs liability. [1] |
Herculito Maritime Ltd and others v Gunvor International BV and others | [2024] UKSC 2 | 17 January 2024 | Admiralty law, Insurance law | That decision had held that the contracts of carriage contained in or evidenced by a series of bills of lading did not preclude the shipowner, and thus its subrogated insurers (the respondents), from seeking a contribution in General Average from Cargo Interests and their subrogated insurers (the appellants) after a piratical seizure of the POLAR in the Gulf of Aden had necessitated the payment out of a US$7 million ransom. [2] |
In the matter of an application by Stephen Hilland for Judicial Review | [2024] UKSC 4 | 7 February 2024 | Parole | A person on release from prison can have conditions applied to their parole which are not applied to prisoners on similar sentences. [3] |
Jersey Choice Ltd v His Majesty’s Treasury | [2024] UKSC 5 | 14 February 2024 | Value-added tax | A company in the Channel Islands has no claim to loss and damage as a result of removing low value consignment relief from mail order imports into the UK from the Channel Islands. [4] |
Armstead v Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Company Ltd | [2024] UKSC 6 | 14 February 2024 | Tort law, Remoteness, Burden of proof | A victim is entitled to recover damages for contractual liabilities to third parties resulting from the tortfeasor's physical damage to property. This loss does not constitute pure economic loss. The burden of proof lies with the defendant to demonstrate that the claim is not a reasonable pre-estimate of the actual loss and is thus too remote. If the claim is deemed unreasonable, only the actual foreseeable loss of use can be recovered. [5] |
In the matter of an application by RM (a person under disability) by SM, his father and next friend (AP) for Judicial Review | [2024] UKSC 7 | 21 February 2024 | Mental Health Act 1983 | A patient in Northern Ireland mental healthcare can rely on relevant case regarding the England and Wales where the legislative language in the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986. [6] |
Lifestyle Equities CV and another v Amazon UK Services Ltd and others | [2024] UKSC 8 | 21 February 2024 | Trade Marks Act 1994 | A seller can not sell goods that infringe on UK trade marks, by delivering to the UK, while selling goods with USA marks and using a US website. [7] |
Bertino v Public Prosecutor's Office, Italy | [2024] UKSC 9 | 6 March 2024 | European Arrest Warrant, Extradition Act 2003 | A criminal defendant has the right to be present at trial as guaranteed by article 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights. [8] |
Merticariu v Judecatoria Arad, Romania | [2024] UKSC 10 | 6 March 2024 | European Arrest Warrant, Extradition Act 2003 | A criminal defendant has the right to be present at trial as guaranteed by article 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights. [9] |
Hassam and another v Rabot and another | [2024] UKSC 11 | 26 March 2024 | Tort law | In determining the damages payable for pain, suffering and loss of amenity due the Civil Liability Act 2019 should be used in the case of whiplash injuries and common law awards should be applied in non-whiplash injuries. [10] |
Secretary of State for Business and Trade (Respondent) v Mercer | [2024] UKSC 12 | 17 April 2024 | Labour law | Section 146 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 is incompatible with article 11 of the ECHR. [11] |
RTI Ltd v MUR Shipping BV | [2024] UKSC 18 | 15 May 2024 | Commercial law, Force majeure | A reasonable endeavours proviso in a force majeure clause does not oblige a contractual party to accept an offer of non-contractual performance, unless expressly stated otherwise. This principle is based on the freedom of contract, which includes the freedom not to contract, and the importance of legal certainty. [12] |
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Oceanbulk Shipping & Trading SA v TMT Asia Ltd [2010] UKSC 44 is an English contract law case concerning the interpretation of contracts, raised on appeal from a Commercial Court hearing in 2009.
Lucasfilm Limited v Ainsworth[2011] UKSC 39 was a 2011 court ruling by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The case concerned an intellectual property dispute over the production of Lucasfilm's Stormtrooper costumes by model maker Andrew Ainsworth. Mr Ainsworth argued that the helmets, which he continues to manufacture and sell, were functional props covered only by design right legislation, as opposed to Lucasfilm's assertion that they were sculptures or art which fall under copyright law. Design right protection is retained for 15 or 10 years, whereas copyright protection in this case would last 70 years after the death of the author.
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Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v Yunus Rahmatullah [2012] UKSC 48 is a UK constitutional law case concerning the detention of Yunus Rahmatullah, a Pakistani citizen detained in Iraq, and later Afghanistan, who is alleged to have travelled to Iraq to fight for Al-Qaeda during the Second Iraq War.
FHR European Ventures LLP v Cedar Capital Partners LLC[2014] UKSC 45 is a landmark decision of the United Kingdom Supreme Court which holds that a bribe or secret commission accepted by an agent is held on trust for his principal. In so ruling, the Court partially overruled Sinclair Investments (UK) Ltd v Versailles Trade Finance Ltd in favour of The Attorney General for Hong Kong v Reid (UKPC), a ruling from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on appeal from New Zealand.
Re B (A Child) or In the matter of B (A child) [2016] UKSC 4 was a 2016 judgment of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom concerning the habitual residence of a child under English law.
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