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UK Supreme Court
Judgment
12 November 2025
Keir (Appellant) v His Majesty's Advocate (Respondent) (Scotland)
Lord Reed,
Lord Hodge,
Lord Hamblen,
Lady Rose,
Lady Simler
1. Is the Scottish courts’ current approach to the admission of evidence concerning the complainer’s sexual history in trials for sexual offences liable to infringe defendants’ rights to a fair trial under article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights? 2. Were Mr Keir’s rights under article 6 infringed at his trial?
Linked cases
UKSC/2023/0107 Daly (Appellant) v His Majesty's Advocate (Respondent) (Scotland)
Legal issue
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
12 November 2025
Daly (Appellant) v His Majesty's Advocate (Respondent) (Scotland)
Lord Reed,
Lord Hodge,
Lord Hamblen,
Lady Rose,
Lady Simler
1. Is the Scottish courts’ current approach to the admission of evidence concerning the complainer’s credibility or reliability in trials for sexual offences liable to infringe defendants’ rights to a fair trial under article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights? 2. Were Mr Daly’s rights under article 6 infringed at his trial?
Linked cases
UKSC/2023/0123 Keir (Appellant) v His Majesty's Advocate (Respondent) (Scotland)
Legal issue
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
12 November 2025
King Crude Carriers SA and others (Appellants) v Ridgebury November LLC and others (Respondents)
Lord Reed,
Lord Hodge,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Burrows,
Lord Stephens
(1) Whether there is a principle in English law that a condition in a contract, which would give rise to a debt owed by a party if fulfilled, should be treated as fulfilled (or dispensed with or waived) where that party wrongfully prevents the condition from being satisfied? (2) If this principle is not part of English law, does contractual interpretation or an implied term lead to the same result on the facts? (3) At what point do the deposits accrue as a debt under the contracts concerned?
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Hearing
17 November 2025
Uniform Building Contractors Ltd (Respondent) v The Water and Sewerage Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (Appellant) (Trinidad and Tobago)
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Leggatt,
Lady Rose,
Lord Richards,
Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Coulson
Whether compliance with conditions precedent to payment in a FIDIC contract is essential in order to enable a contractor to recover payment for variations alleged to have been made.
UK Supreme Court
Hearing
18 November 2025
AXA Insurance UK PLC and another (Appellants) v Commissioners of Inland Revenue and another (Respondents)
Lord Hodge,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Leggatt,
Lady Rose,
Lord Richards
Was the Court of Appeal correct to hold that (A) whether the claims are time-barred has not been finally determined in the Prudential test case, and should be determined in the present proceedings by applying the law as it stands now (“Limitation Issue”); (B) GREA is not entitled to a claim in restitution for payment of unlawful advance corporation tax utilised against lawful tax or repaid before the issue of its claim (“Set-off Issue”); and (C) by 1 April 2010, the Appellants had not pleaded a claim in restitution for the recovery of unlawful tax paid as a result of their inability to offset unused double taxation relief credit (“Pleading Issue”)?