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This is a list of judgments given by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom between the court's inception on 1 October 2009 and the most recent judgments. Cases are listed in order of their neutral citation and where possible a link to the official text of the decision in PDF format has been provided. The case summaries below are not official ...
30 October 2020 Mental health law , Medical Negligence , Illegality in English law A NHS Foundation Trust , which had accepted that it has been negligent in respect of the care of a person receiving care for paranoid schizophrenia , was not required to pay compensation to the individual where the individual subsequently incurred a loss as a ...
Disasters and accidents A stampede at a stadium in Jalalabad, Nangarhar, Afghanistan, kills 15 people and wounds 11 others. (Al Jazeera) Health and environment COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 pandemic in Europe COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom COVID-19 pandemic in England, COVID-19 tier regulations in England It is announced that South Yorkshire will move into tier three restrictions at 00: ...
Disasters and accidents 2020 Beirut explosion The state -run National News Agency says that Lebanon's state prosecution has asked Interpol to detain two Russian citizens, the captain and owner of the MV Rhosus, a ship that carried thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate to Beirut in 2013. (Reuters via U.S. News) Eight people are killed and ten others are injured as a series of wildfires sweeps ...
This page lists legal decisions of the House of Lords. Until 30 September 2009, the House of Lords was the highest appellate court for the United Kingdom. Cases were determined not by the House of Lords itself, but by its Judicial Committee, consisting of up to nine legally qualified peers, generally referred to as "Law Lords".
Landmark court decisions, in present-day common law legal systems, establish precedents that determine a significant new legal principle or concept, or otherwise substantially affect the interpretation of existing law. "Leading case" is commonly used in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth jurisdictions instead of "landmark case", as used ...
The case was described at the time as "one of Scotland Yard's most notable triumphs in a century". [3] 1968: Murder of Roy Tutill: 1: Surrey, England: Roy Tutill, 14, was raped and murdered on his way home from school. The case went unsolved for 33 years, until Brian Field was convicted of the crime after DNA evidence surfaced.
1 February – Austria, Germany, and Slovenia confirm they will not extradite their nationals if they are accused of crimes in the UK. [33]4 February – In London, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, naturalist Sir David Attenborough, and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte launch the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26), a major UN climate summit to be held in Glasgow in ...