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Following the announcement by Lord Reed that he will retire from the Supreme Court in January 2027, applications are now sought for the appointment of a justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.  The UK Supreme Court and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) hear a wide range

The UK Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Bahrain, ruling that the Gulf state cannot rely on state immunity to avoid claims brought by UK-based activists who allege their computers were infected with spyware by Bahraini state agents. The case concerned two Bahraini democracy campaigners who fle

The UK Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by a London investment management firm against HMRC’s decision to treat most of its LLP members as employees for tax and national insurance purposes under the “salaried members” rules, potentially leaving it with a tax bill of around &po

Apple has begun a UK Supreme Court challenge against a ruling requiring it to pay more than $500 million to license mobile technology patents used in iPhones and other devices. The hearing before the court is the latest stage in a long-running dispute with patent owner Optis over the royalties payab

Fresh from the UK Supreme Court's Glasgow sitting, president of the court, Lord Reed of Allermuir, spoke to Kapil Summan, editor of our sister publication Scottish Legal News. Upon his appointment as president of the Supreme Court in 2020, Lady Elish Angiolini recalled that in her practising days sh

UK Supreme Court justice Lord Stephens of Creevyloughgare has announced that he is to retire from the court on 7 April next year. Lord Stephens has served as a justice of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council since 15 November 2017 and as a justice of the Supreme Court since 1st October 2020.

Lord Justice Snowden has been appointed as a justice of the UK Supreme Court.  Richard Snowden grew up and was educated at a state school in Redcar in the North-East of England. He studied law as an undergraduate at Downing College, Cambridge and obtained a master of laws degree from Harvard La

Lord Reed has suggested that the UK Supreme Court should be able to take more criminal appeals from England and Wales as there is currently a risk that the Court of Appeal is "marking its own homework". Criminal appeals from England and Wales or Northern Ireland can only go to the Supreme Court if a

The UK Supreme Court has rejected the Kingdom of Spain’s long-running attempts to invoke state immunity to prevent renewable energy investors registering their 2018 ICSID arbitration award in England. Infrastructure Services Luxembourg and Energia Termosolar, the investors, are owed €120

An oat drink company has lost a UK Supreme Court battle over whether the word “milk” can feature in the branding of its plant-based products, in a ruling likely to influence how dairy alternatives are marketed across the UK. In a unanimous judgment, the court held that Swedish oat drink

The president of the UK Supreme Court, Lord Reed, has announced his intention to retire from the court on 10 January 2027.  Lord Reed became a Supreme Court justice in February 2012. He became deputy president in June 2018 and then president in January 2020.

The UK Supreme Court has upheld an appeal against judgments of the High Court and Court of Appeal in relation to the disclosure in a Troubles-related inquest of “gists” of sensitive information over which public interest immunity was claimed. Delivering judgment for the UK Supreme Court,

Religious education and collective worship in Northern Ireland schools does not comply with fundamental human rights standards, the UK Supreme Court has ruled. The court today handed down its unanimous judgment in an appeal brought by a young girl, anonymised as JR87, and her father, G.

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the practice of the Scottish courts since 2013 in relation to the admission of evidence in trials for sexual offences is liable to infringe defendants’ rights under Article 6 ECHR but dismissed two appeals on that basis presented to the court after finding t

The UK Supreme Court has hosted a delegation from the US Supreme Court.