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The Supreme Court has launched the first year of its 2023-2026 business plan. The plan details five strategic priorities for the next three years. These priorities are:

The process to appoint a new justice to sit in the UK Supreme Court has begun. As a result of the retirement of Lord Kitchin, applications are being sought for the appointment of a new justice, to take effect later this year.

John MacLeod, senior lecturer in private law at the University of Edinburgh has written a new article on the Supreme Court’s decision in Fearn v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery [2023] UKSC 4.

Ukraine has won a significant hurdle in a seven-year-long English court dispute over a $3 billion Russian loan, with the case now set to proceed to a full trial before the High Court. In an 85-page judgment handed down yesterday morning, the UK Supreme Court unanimously held that the Law Debenture T

The Supreme Court will be sitting at the Manchester Civil Justice Centre next week, from Monday 6 to Thursday 9 March 2023. This visit will be the first time that the court has sat outside of one of the four UK capital cities, having previously sat in Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff.

The Supreme Court has rejected two unionist legal challenges to the lawfulness of the Northern Ireland Protocol. One of the two challenges, which were heard together last year, was brought by a group of senior unionist politicians led by Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister and inclu

Lord Kitchin is to retire from the Supreme Court at the end of the legal year, 29 September 2023. He became a Supreme Court Justice in October 2018, making him the fifth longest serving of the current justices.

The mother of a disabled man who claimed Glasgow City Council had unlawfully discriminated against her son by refusing to increase the deductions it makes when calculating his charges for the community care services provided to him has had her appeal unanimously dismissed by the Supreme Court, which

Two new non-executive directors (NEDs) have been appointed to the Supreme Court. Scottish accountant Iain Lanaghan has been appointed as the lead NED. His appointment comes as Kathryn Cearns stands down after five years as a NED and chair of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee.

Judgment in the following Supreme Court case will be handed down next week: McCue (as guardian for Andrew McCue) (AP) (Appellant) v Glasgow City Council (Respondent) (Scotland). The appellant is the mother and guardian of Andrew McCue. Andrew is disabled and thus entitled to community care serv

"Do you want to keep your brain engaged over the festive season?", asks the Supreme Court (presumably instead of eating your weight in chocolate and letting lingering resentments with siblings boil over). Then you may want to enrol in a free course offered by the court, in which participants will ge

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the Scottish Parliament does not have the inherent power to legislate for the holding of a referendum on Scottish independence, as such a law would relate to a reserved matter. A reference to the court was made by the Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain KC, under Schedule

The Scottish government's indyref2 bill is ultra vires of the Scotland Act, the Supreme Court has ruled.

The Supreme Court will deliver its judgment in the latest independence case next week. The Scotland Act 1998 allows the Lord Advocate to “refer to the Supreme Court any devolution issue which is not the subject of proceedings” (para 34 of Schedule 6 SA).

The Supreme Court will sit in Manchester next March, Lord Reed has announced. The sitting in Manchester will be the first time the court has ever sat outside one of the four UK capital cities. Three cases will be heard when the court, whose permanent home is in central London, sits at the Manchester