Supreme Court Watch · Term archive
Hilary Term 2026
Selected hearings from January to March 2026, with original issue summaries, practical significance, judgments, press summaries and session-by-session official recordings.
Reviewed 16 September 2026 against Alexander’s practice areas. Two commercial-litigation and cross-border civil-fraud appeals, with seven archived hearing sessions, are retained.
Each entry is an original, concise research summary based on the Court’s official case record. Hearing dates may change. After a hearing, the official case page normally adds recordings; when judgment is delivered, it adds the judgment, neutral citation and press summary. Those materials remain on the Court’s website and are linked here rather than reproduced.
Gatwick Investment Ltd and others v Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe SE
Question before the Court
Whether Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme payments received by policyholders should be deducted from sums otherwise payable for insured business-interruption losses.
Why it matters
A leading commercial-insurance decision on the construction of savings clauses and the treatment of government support when quantifying covered losses.
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Official archived sessions
Skatteforvaltningen v MCML Ltd (formerly ED&F Man Capital Markets Ltd)
Question before the Court
Whether a later fraud claim by the Danish tax authority was barred by issue estoppel following the dismissal of an earlier negligence claim against the same defendant.
Why it matters
A significant cross-border civil-fraud and procedure decision on the scope of issue estoppel, foreign-state claims and successive allegations arising from the same tax-refund scheme.
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Official archived sessions
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