Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

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• UK Supreme Court

  Hearing

  26 November 2025

  The Kingdom of Bahrain (Appellant) v Shehabi and another (Respondents)

  Lord Lloyd-Jones,

  Lord Hamblen,

  Lord Leggatt,

  Lord Burrows,

  Lady Simler

  Is a foreign State whose agents, located abroad, cause spyware to be installed remotely on the computers of individuals located in the United Kingdom, causing those individuals psychiatric injury when they discover that the State has been spying on them in this way, entitled to immunity from civil proceedings under section 5 of the State Immunity Act 1978?

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• The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

  Hearing

  26 November 2025

  A and 6 others (Appellants) v C and 13 others (Respondents)

  Lord Reed,

  Lord Briggs,

  Lord Stephens,

  Lady Rose,

  Lord Richards

  In exercising the Consent Powers, do the Protectors have the Wider Role or the Narrow Role?

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• The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

  Judgment

  27 November 2025

  Aquapoint LP (in Official Liquidation) (Appellant) v Xiaohu Fan (Respondent) (Cayman Islands)

  Lord Sales,

  Lord Leggatt,

  Lord Burrows,

  Lord Richards,

  Dame Janice Pereira

  1) Whether the just and equitable winding-up jurisdiction may be used to alter, amend or supplement the normal effect of the law of contract in circumstances where the parties have entered into a contract regulating their relationship and where that contract expressly makes provision for the matter or matters giving rise to the Respondent’s complain. (2) Whether the Respondent’s complaint is governed exclusively by the law of contract. (3)Whether it was a breach of the duty to act in good faith for the General Partner to rely on entire-agreement clause in the 2017 Agreement to decline to give effect to assurances made outside of that Agreement. (4) Whether the reliance by the General Partner on the terms of the 2017 Agreement in not transferring the shares was misconduct in the management and affairs of the Partnership giving rise to a loss of trust and confidence as to justify the making of a winding up order on the just and equitable ground. (5) Whether the General Partner has breached its duty to act in good faith by refusing to transfer the shares in Legend Cayman to the Respondent so as to justify the making of a winding up order on the just and equitable ground. (6) Whether there is an adequate alternative remedy available to the Respondent by bringing an action for breach of duty under Section 19(1), Exempted Limited Partnership Act.

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• UK Supreme Court

  Hearing

  1 December 2025

  Republic of Zimbabwe (Appellant) v Border Timbers Ltd and another (Respondents)

  Lord Lloyd-Jones,

  Lord Briggs,

  Lord Sales,

  Lord Leggatt,

  Lady Simler

  (1) Did the Court of Appeal err in law by finding that Article 54(1) of the ICSID Convention, properly interpreted, constitutes a submission to the jurisdiction by prior agreement for the purposes of s2(2) State Immunity Act 1978 (“SIA”). (2) (For the First Appellant only): Did Fraser J err in law by finding that there was a valid arbitration agreement between Spain and the First Respondents for the purposes of s9(1) SIA, such that Spain was not immune from the adjudicative jurisdiction of the English courts pursuant to s1(1) SIA.

  Linked cases

  UKSC/2024/0155 Infrastructure Services Luxembourg S.A.R.L and another (Respondents) v The Kingdom of Spain (Appellant)

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• The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

  Hearing

  8 December 2025

  Marie Josiane Lisette Saint-Avit (Appellant) v Farhad Beeharry and Beebee Sultana Beeharry (Respondents)

  Lord Lloyd-Jones,

  Lord Briggs,

  Lord Richards

  Did the Court of Appeal err in holding that (1) the Respondents’ occupation period was not interrupted, and (2) the Appellant’s trial was fair?

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