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Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website.

On Wednesday 10th May the Court will hand-down judgment in Jalla and another v Shell International Trading and Shipping Company and another [2023] UKSC 16. The Court will determine whether pollution caused to land and waterways by an offshore oil spill constitute a continuing nuisance with fresh causes of action accruing until such time as the oil is cleared up, or it eventually disappears of its own accord, in circumstances where the event causing the pollution occurs only once? The hand-down will take place at 9:45am in Courtroom 1.

On Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th May the Court will hear the case of McCulloch and others v Forth Valley Health Board (Scotland), on appeal from [2021] CSIH 21. In Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11, the Supreme Court held that a doctor “is under a duty to take reasonable care to ensure that the patient is aware of any material risks involved in any recommended treatment, and of any reasonable alternative or variant treatments.” In this appeal, the Supreme Court is asked to decide what test should be applied when assessing whether an alternative treatment is reasonable. It is also asked whether the courts below erred in their approach to the issue of causation. The hearing will begin in at 10:30am in Courtroom 1.

The following Supreme Court judgments remain outstanding: (As of 05/05/23)

  • East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust v Flowers and Ors, heard 22 June 2021
  • Canada Square Operations Ltd v Potter, heard 14th June 2022
  • Unger and another (in substitution for Hasan) v Ul-Hasan (deceased) and another, heard 20th October 2022
  • Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and another v Agnew and others (Northern Ireland), heard 14th-15th December 2022
  • Smith and another v Royal Bank of Scotland, heard 12th January 2023
  • Republic of Mozambique (acting through its Attorney General) v Privinvest Shipbuilding SAL (Holding) and others, heard 24-25th January 2023
  • R (PACCAR Inc and others) v Competition Appeal Tribunal and others, heard 16th February 2023.
  • Lifestyle Equities C.V. and another v Ahmed and another, heard 20th February 2023
  • JTI POLSKA Sp. Z o.o. and others v Jakubowski and others, heard 28th February 2023
  • Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, heard 2nd March 2023
  • The Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd v United Utilites Water Ltd No 2, heard 6th March 2023
  • London Borough of Merton Council v Nuffield Health Ltd, heard 7th March 2023
  • R (on the application of Palmer) v Northern Derbyshire Magistrates Court and another, heard 8th March 2023
  • R (on the application of Toraane and another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, heard 9th March 2023
  • R (on the application of Officer W80) v Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct and others, heard 13th March 2023
  • Secretary of State for Transport v Curzon Park Ltd and others, heard 19th April 2023
  • Independent Workers Union of Great Britain v Central Arbitration Committee and another, heard 25th April 2023
  • R (on the application of Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, heard 27th April 2023
  • R (on the application of Imam) v London Borough of Croydon, heard 3rd May 2023
  • R (on the application of Wang and another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, heard 4th May 2023
  • McCulloch and others v Forth Valley Health Board (Scotland), heard 10th May 2023.