Usually Court sessions continue until late June or early July. The Term is divided between "sittings," when the Justices hear cases and deliver opinions, and intervening "recesses," when they consider the business before the Court and write opinions.
Sittings and recesses alternate at approximately two-week intervals. With rare exceptions, each side is allowed 30 minutes argument and up to 24 cases may be argued at one sitting. Since the majority of cases involve the review of a decision of some other court, there is no jury and no witnesses are heard.
For each case, the Court has before it a record of prior proceedings and printed briefs containing the arguments of each side. During the intervening recess period, the Justices study the argued and forthcoming cases and work on their opinions. Each week the Justices must also evaluate approximately petitions seeking review of judgments of state and federal courts to determine which cases are to be granted full review with oral arguments by attorneys.
We also translate our Supreme Court Statistics into interactive visualizations, which can be found below. These visualizations are sourced from The Statistics included in our print issues. The content is also available here on our website as online PDFs. We hope they make the data more accessible and valuable. Nonetheless, to find a more detailed version of The Statistics with extensive explanations of methodology, please see the full PDFs linked above.
In what percentage of cases does Justice Thomas agree with Justice Sotomayor? You can also toggle between viewing alignments within all written opinions or only in cases that were not unanimous.
Detail: Choose a Term from the dropdown menu. Build out your majority by selecting a second Justice, and then a third, as each additional row appears. When the courts are in session, members of the public are more than welcome to sit in the public gallery the rows of benches at the back of the courtrooms , provided they turn off their mobile phones.
If you do not wish to watch a hearing or there are none occurring during your visit, then you are more than welcome to walk around the building and see the courtrooms not currently in use, as well as explore our educational exhibition which is situated on the lower ground floor. However, its doors are opened to the public on Open House London weekend and selected other dates, which are advertised on the front page of this website.
Photography is allowed inside the UKSC but not in any of the courtrooms which are in session or prepared for hearings that day. There is a break at lunchtime from to However, if you are present in a courtroom where the hand-down of a judgment is taking place normally Wednesday mornings at we ask that you remain in the courtroom for the duration of the hand-down normally around 15 minutes.
Not really, other than those relating to the use of cameras covered elsewhere on this page. It is customary to stand and bow to the Justices whenever they enter and leave the courtroom. Please also note that items of clothing or other materials bearing messages that undermine the dignity of the court or which seek to interfere with the proper administration of justice will not be permitted into the building.
Photography is not allowed in courtrooms which are in session or prepared for hearings that day. Further details can be found in our Policy on the use of live, text-based communications from Court on this website.
Visitors can pick up case summaries for the appeals being heard on the day of their visit from the Reception Desk. The UKSC has a cafe on the lower ground floor, which serves a range of hot and cold food and drinks.
Please contact our Security team. More information can be found in our lost property policy on this website. There is a disabled toilet on the lower ground floor, which also has baby changing facilities. A range of souvenirs can be purchased from the cafe on the lower ground floor of the building.
Please see the Shop section of this website for more information. They offer an introduction to the creation and work of the Court and discuss some of our cases. Please see. Please see the visits for schools, colleges and universities. However, those interested can download an audio guide of the outside of the building which highlights its rich architectural features.
For more information please see the audio tour of exterior section of this website. For more information, and for details of our temporary summer exhibitions, please see the Exhibition - what's on section of this website.
We have a quiz sheet aimed at 5 to 10 year olds, which they can complete while exploring the building. Older children may be interested in the interactive educational exhibition on the lower ground floor. As you will appreciate, the Justices spend the bulk of their time in the building sitting in court, preparing for cases and writing judgments, so they are rarely available to address visiting groups.
If the information you require is not available through our Publication Scheme you may send your request to :. Remember that the FOI Act gives you the right to ask for recorded information held by public authorities, and if it is held, to be provided with that information, subject to certain exemptions.
Court records, for example, are exempt from disclosure under section The FOI Act does not give the right to seek opinions, legal interpretation or explanations. If you wish to apply for access to your personal data, known as a "subject access request" under the Data Protection Act, please refer to the relevant part of our Publication Scheme.
The UKSC does not provide a legal information or advice service. Registry staff can only advise on procedural matters in relation to the cases which come before it. Please note that members of the public have received fraudulent e-mails using the UK Supreme Court's name, address and telephone number. This describes the courts by which your case must have already been heard before you can apply for permission to appeal to the UKSC.
In certain circumstances, yes. However, the UKSC does not make decisions about whether or not legal aid should be granted to parties though it may determine the amount of costs to be paid by parties following a hearing. Your legal professional will be able to advise on the process for seeking such aid, the system for which is co-ordinated by the Legal Aid Agency for England and Wales, other bodies are responsible in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
You should contact the Court of Appeal, or the court you wish to appeal from, which will provide you with the required letter. Details of fees payable can be found via the Fees and costs page of this website. Applications for permission to appeal take approximately eight sitting weeks to be determined. Please see the Term dates page of this website for details. Please visit the Court sittings section of this website for the dates and times of forthcoming cases.
The UKSC does not publish parties' cases. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of such papers you are encouraged to contact the parties directly with their request. Parties should note that, generally speaking, the Court has no objection to them releasing their cases skeleton arguments.
Should parties decline a request made of them for disclosure of their case, an application can be lodged with the Registrar seeking such disclosure using Court form 2. As soon as we are aware of the hand-down date for a judgment, it is published on the Future judgments section of this website. As a very broad indication, judgments tend to follow approximately 12 weeks excluding vacation after the conclusion of the appeal hearing.
We are unable to give any indication of the likely hand-down date for judgments not listed on the ' Future judgments ' page, and you may find it more helpful to check that page regularly rather than contacting us about dates.
Please email Enquiries with your request. Most UKSC judgments are published on Wednesday mornings, however they are currently published on Fridays at during term time. Please note that this facility is not currently available for cases heard by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
On the front page of this website there is a link to Supreme Court Live which takes you directly to our live streaming service where you can watch live proceedings of Supreme Court cases. Footage from most hearings is uploaded to the relevant case profile page in our Current cases section the day after the session takes place.
Footage from the Justice's summary in court when handing down judgment is uploaded to the relevant case profile page in our Decided cases section, usually on the day of the judgment itself. Case footage will remain available to watch for approximately one year after the hearing; judgment summary footage will remain available indefinitely.
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