UKSC

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UKSC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the highest appellate court in the UK for civil cases and most criminal cases.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
UKSC canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf abbreviation
court of last resort
judicial body
supreme court
address Parliament Square
surface form: Parliament Square, London
appealsFrom Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland
Court of Appeal of England and Wales
High Court of Justice of England and Wales
surface form: High Court of England and Wales

High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland
High Court of Justiciary
surface form: High Court of Justiciary (in limited cases)

College of Justice
surface form: Inner House of the Court of Session

certain tribunals
canIssue declarations of incompatibility under the Human Rights Act 1998
coordinates 51.4995°N 0.1293°W
country United Kingdom
createdTo separate the UK’s highest court from the legislature
decidesOn points of law of general public importance
establishedBy Constitutional Reform Act 2005
governingStatute Constitutional Reform Act 2005
hasAbbreviation UK SC
UKSC self-linksurface differs
hasDeputyPresident Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
hasOfficialLanguage English
hasOfficialWebsite https://www.supremecourt.uk
hasPredecessor Judicial Committee of the House of Lords
surface form: Appellate Committee of the House of Lords
hasPresident President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
hears civil appeals
criminal appeals
highestCourtFor civil cases in the United Kingdom
criminal cases in England and Wales
criminal cases in Northern Ireland
inception 2009-10-01
independentFrom British Parliament
surface form: Parliament of the United Kingdom

UK government
surface form: UK Government
jurisdiction United Kingdom
legalCitationPrefix UKSC self-linksurface differs
locatedIn Middlesex Guildhall
location London, England
surface form: London
notHighestCourtFor criminal cases in Scotland
numberOfJustices 12
openedBy Elizabeth II
surface form: Queen Elizabeth II
openingDate 2009-10-16
partOf courts of the United Kingdom
surface form: judiciary of the United Kingdom
postcode SW1P 3BD
replaced Judicial Committee of the House of Lords
surface form: Appellate Committee of the House of Lords
standsFor Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
styleOfJudges Supreme Court justices
surface form: Justices of the Supreme Court

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Supreme Court abbreviation UKSC
subject surface form: Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
EWCA distinguishedFrom UKSC
UKSC hasAbbreviation UKSC self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
UKSC legalCitationPrefix UKSC self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Supreme Court of the United Kingdom