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Lady Justice Simler will join the Supreme Court on 14 November, it has been announced. His Majesty The King made this appointment on the advice of the Prime Minister and Lord Chancellor, following the recommendations of an independent selection commission.

New evidence alleging a conflict of interest in a Supreme Court justice's involvement in legal cases over the collapse of Rangers Football Club has emerged. Lord Hodge, 70, led a panel of three judges who dismissed an appeal made by the businessman David Grier, who had been appointed as an administr

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The Supreme Court's Ask a Justice programme returns for the 2023/24 academic year, giving schools the opportunity to have a live question and answer session with a justice from their own classroom. The sessions provide a unique insight into the work of the justices and is excellent for pupils and st

The UK Supreme Court has received and determined applications for permission to cross-appeal in the following cases, often referred to as the Rwanda appeals: No further applications for permission to appeal are expected to be received.

The Supreme Court has ruled that an agreement by a third party to fund litigation in exchange for a percentage of damages recovered in the event of success constitutes a “damages-based agreement” for the purposes of statute. The issue arose in the context of applications to bring collect

The Supreme Court has ruled that litigation funders must redraft their agreement terms. In PACCAR Inc & Ors v Competition Appeal Tribunal & Ors, four out of five justices declared that these types of agreements fall under the statutory definition of damages-based agreements (DBAs).

A valedictory was held for Supreme Court justice Lord Kitchin yesterday, ahead of his retirement in September. Lord Kitchin has been a justice since October 2018. Remarks were made by Lord Reed, Iain Purvis KC, Daniel Alexander KC and Lord Kitchin himself who thanked his family and colleagues for th

The Supreme Court has has signed up to the Black Talent Charter. The court joins over 20 signatories who have already signed up to the charter.

ALBA Westminster Leader Neale Hanvey MP has published a legal opinion from Professor Robert McCorquodale on “matters relating to international legal issues concerning the right to self-determination for the people of Scotland”. The opinion published is the first of two legal documents to

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.