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Revenue and Customs v Taylor Clark Leisure Plc (Scotland) [2018] UKSC 35

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Goldman Sachs International v Novo Banco SA [2018] UKSC 34

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Belhaj & Anor v Director of Public Prosecutions & Anor [2018] UKSC 33

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R (on the application of Steinfeld and Keidan) v Secretary of State for International Development (in substitution for the Home Secretary and the Education Secretary) [2018] UKSC 32

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JP Whitter (Water Well Engineers) Ltd v Revenue and Customs [2018] UKSC 31

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Project Blue Ltd v Revenue and Customs [2018] UKSC 30

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Pimlico Plumbers Ltd & Anor v Smith [2018] UKSC 29

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Cartier International AG & Ors v British Telecommunications Plc & Anor [2018] UKSC 28

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Human Rights Commission for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland : Abortion) [2018] UKSC 27

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Navigators Insurance Company Ltd & Ors v Atlasnavios-Navegacao LDA [2018] UKSC 26

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Analysis

In the matter of X and Y [2026] UKSC 13: the end of the “inherent jurisdiction” myth in adoption law

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For more than a decade, family practitioners have operated under the comfortable assumption – tracing itself through a line of first instance decisions beginning with Bodey J’s judgment in Re W (Inherent Jurisdiction: Permission Application: Revocation and Adoption Order) [2013] EWHC 1957 (Fam) and crystallised by Sir James Munby P … Read more