Established in 2009, the Supreme Court only judges on cases where the meaning of the law is uncertain. The decisions that it reaches set precedents for future cases. Some of its most important cases have involved the court upholding the Human Rights Act 1998, thus frustrating the will of the government. However, some cases are unrelated to government and see individuals attempting to clarify whether laws are being correctly interpreted.
The government wished to freeze the assets of suspected terrorists. The court ruled that the government did not have the legal power to do this, as it infringed the presumption of innocence inherent in common law and the Human Rights Act.
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