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

On Wednesday 29thnd June, the Court will hand-down judgment in the case of Hastings v Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd and another [2022] UKSC 19. This case concerns the meaning of the term ‘defective’ within the terms of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 in the context of a hip replacement. The Court will be particularly concerned with whether the lower courts erred in law by not holding that the hip replacement was defective. Hand-down will take place at 09:45 in Courtroom One.

The following Supreme Court judgments remain outstanding: (As of 29/6/22)

  • The Law Debenture Trust Corporation plc v Ukraine (Represented by the Minister of Finance of Ukraine acting upon the instructions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine) Nos. 2 and 3, heard 9-12 December 2019
  • BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA and Ors, heard 4 May 2021
  • East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust v Flowers and Ors, heard 22 June 2021
  • Basfar v Wong, heard 13th-14th October
  • Harpur Trust v Brazel, heard 9th November 2021
  • Guest and another v Guest heard 3rd December 2021
  • Fearn and others v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery heard 7th December 2021
  • Stanford International Bank Ltd (in liquidation) v HSBC Bank PLC, heard 19th January 2022
  • Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs v NCL Investments Ltd and another, heard 25th January 2022
  • DCM (Optical Holdings) Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (Scotland), heard 8th February 2022
  • HA and RA (Iraq) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, heard 17th May 2022
  • AA (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, heard 17th May 2022
  • R v Luckhurst, heard 7th June 2022
  • Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs v NHS Lothian Health Board, heard 8th June 2022
  • Canada Square Operations Ltd v Potter, heard 14th June 2022
  • R v Andrewes, heard 21st June 2022.