List of judgments of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom delivered in 2025

This is a list of the judgments given by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in the year 2025.

In 2025, Lord Reed is the President of the Supreme Court, Lord Hodge is the Deputy President.

The table lists judgments made by the court and the opinions of the judges in each case. Judges are treated as having concurred in another's judgment when they either formally attach themselves to the judgment of another or speak only to acknowledge their concurrence with one or more judges. Any judgment which reaches a conclusion which differs from the majority on one or more major points of the appeal has been treated as dissent.

All dates are for 2025 unless expressly stated otherwise.

2025 case summaries

Unless otherwise noted, cases were heard by a panel of 5 judges.

Cases involving Scots law are highlighted in orange. Cases involving Northern Irish law are highlighted in green.

Case name	Citation	Date	Legal subject	Summary of decision
The Father v Worcestershire County Council	[2025] UKSC 1	29 January 2025	Family law, Habeas corpus	Applying for a writ of habeas corpus in respect of children who are subject to a care order is not the correct legal process because the children are not detained.
Royal Bank of Canada v Commissioners for His Majesty's Revenue and Customs	[2025] UKSC 2	12 February 2025	Corporation tax	The rights that BP paid for did not amount to the "right to work" under Article 6(2) of the UK/Canada double taxation Convention.
El-Khouri v Government of the United States of America	[2025] UKSC 3	12 February 2025	Extradition, Double criminality	The order for the extradition of El-Khouri was quashed. The correct test of double criminality in this case was from s.137(4)(b) of the Extradition Act 2003 because all the relevant conduct occurred outside the United States.
El-Husseiny v Invest Bank PSC	[2025] UKSC 4	19 February 2025	Insolvency	A "transaction" under section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 is not confined to a dealing with an asset owned by the debtor.
Nasir v Zavarco Plc	[2025] UKSC 5	19 February 2025	The doctrine of merger	The doctrine of merger is confined to judgments involving the payment of money or enforcing a right of property by ordering the return of the property (“coercive judgments”) and therefore does not apply to declaratory judgments.
N3 v Secretary of State for the Home Department	[2025] UKSC 6	26 February 2025	British nationality law	If an order that deprives a person of their British citizenship is withdrawn by the Home Secretary then it is treated as having no effect on an individual’s citizenship during the period it was in force.
Brown v Ridley	[2025] UKSC 7	26 February 2025	Adverse possession	Paragraph 5(4)(c) of Schedule 6 to the Land Registration Act 2002 allows any ten years of reasonable belief of ownership to be sufficient for adverse possession.
JR123 (Judicial Review App.)	[2025] UKSC 8	6 March 2025	Rehabilitation, Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights	The Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 strikes a fair balance and does not breach Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia (Cultural Bureau) v Costantine	[2025] UKSC 9	6 March 2025	State immunity	The embassy was not entitled to state immunity because the conduct was not carried out in the exercise of sovereign authority.
Rukhadze v Recovery Partners GP Ltd	[2025] UKSC 10	19 March 2025	Fiduciaries, English tort law	The Court rejected the appellant's invitation to amend the test for liability to account for profits and reiterated that a fiduciary to bound to account for any profit made as a result of their position as a fiduciary.
For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers	[2025] UKSC 16	16 April 2025	Human rights	The terms 'sex', 'man' and 'woman' in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological sex.

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• Supreme Court decided cases (2025)