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UK Supreme Court
Judgment
27 July 2026
Akbars Restaurant (Middlesbrough) Limited (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent)
Lord Sales,
Lord Leggatt,
Lady Rose,
Lord Richards,
Lady Simler
This appeal concerns the validity of a civil penalty notice issued by the Secretary of State for the Home Department under section 15 of the Immigration Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. In view of the requirement under s.15(6)(a) that a notice must “state why the Secretary of State thinks the employer is liable to the penalty”, is the penalty notice invalid if it does not identify which of the grounds in s.15(1) applies (i.e. by specifying the circumstances in which a person subject to immigration control has no right to work)?
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
27 July 2026
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?
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
27 July 2026
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
(1) Did the Prudential test case determine the date on which the limitation period starts to run for the purposes of section 32(1)(c) of the Limitation Act 1980 for all claims within the in the GLO? (2) Was the Court of Appeal correct to exercise its discretion under CPR 19.23(1)(a) to order that the determination in the Prudential test case of the Set-Off issue was not binding on the appellants’ claims?
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
27 July 2026
Tesla, Inc and others (Respondents) v InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc and another (Appellants) No 2
Lord Sales,
Lord Briggs,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Burrows,
Lord Kitchin
Do the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction to determine, at the request of an implementer, what terms are fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) for a licence to patents which have been declared as essential to a technological standard (called “SEPs”) where the relevant licence is offered by an intermediary as part of a pool or platform of SEPs?
Linked cases
UKSC/2025/0058 Tesla, Inc and another (Appellants) v InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc and others (Respondents)
Cross Appeal
UK Supreme Court
Judgment
27 July 2026
Tesla, Inc and another (Appellants) v InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc and others (Respondents)
Lord Sales,
Lord Briggs,
Lord Hamblen,
Lord Burrows,
Lord Kitchin
Do the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction to determine, at the request of an implementer, what terms are fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) for a licence to patents which have been declared as essential to a technological standard (called “SEPs”) where the relevant licence is offered by an intermediary as part of a pool or platform of SEPs?
Linked cases
UKSC/2025/0058/A Tesla, Inc and others (Respondents) v InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc and another (Appellants) No 2
Cross Appeal