The new filtering rules for convictions/cautions have already been passed by Parliament and are official legislation. However, the Government chose to appeal the decision by the Court of Appeal which forced them into enacting the legislation in the first place. The case is going to be heard soon by the Supreme Court: https://www.supremecourt.gov.uk/current-cases/CCCaseDetails/case_2013_0048.html.

My question is, what happens if the court decides in the Governments favour? Isn't it true that they could just simply re-legislate against the filtering rules and we'd be stuck at square 1 again? What is the Governments actual position on this: do they actually agree with the changes they introduced or just did so because they were forced to?