Transferred Loss in Scots Contract Law Requires a Defined Exception, Not General Fairness Case: Forthwell Ltd v Pontegadea UK Ltd Citation: [2026] UKSC 33 Court: United Kingdom Supreme Court Date: 17...
Children’s Views Are Relevant but Not Decisive Across the Article 13(b) Grave-Risk Inquiry Case: In the Petition of DM Citation: [2026] UKSC 32 Court: United Kingdom Supreme Court Date: 9 September...
Failure to Serve a Notice of Invitation to Participate Does Not Defeat an Otherwise Valid Right-to-Manage Claim Case: Avon Freeholds Limited v Cresta Court E RTM Company Limited Citation: [2026] UKSC...
Part-Time Status Need Only Be an Effective Cause of Less Favourable Treatment Case: Augustine v Data Cars Limited Citation: [2026] UKSC 30 Court: United Kingdom Supreme Court Date: 12 August 2026...
Remote Cyber Intrusions into UK Computers Can Constitute “Acts in the United Kingdom” under Section 5 of the State Immunity Act 1978 1. Introduction In The Kingdom of Bahrain v Shehabi and another...
Civil Penalty Notices for Illegal Working Must Identify the Specific Statutory Ground of Liability Introduction In Akbars Restaurant (Middlesborough) Limited v Secretary of State for the Home...
Private Rented Sector Offers Automatically End the Main Housing Duty on Acceptance or Refusal 1. Introduction In R (on the application of Bano) v London Borough of Waltham Forest [2026] UKSC 22, the...
Section 172 Good Faith Requires Loyal Conduct, Not Merely Genuine Belief Introduction In Saxon Woods Investments Ltd & Ors v Costa [2026] UKSC 21, the United Kingdom Supreme Court clarified an...
Salaried Member Rules: Significant Influence Must Come from LLP Legal Rights, Not De Facto Clout Introduction In Commissioners for His Majesty's Revenue and Customs v BlueCrest Capital Management...
Issue Estoppel Confined to Necessary Findings on the Pleaded Case, Not Wider Judicial Reasoning 1. Introduction In Skatteforvaltningen (The Danish Customs and Tax Administration) v MCML Ltd...
Contractual Profit Rights Limit Section 850, but Deferred LLP Awards Can Be Taxed under Section 687 Introduction In Commissioners for His Majesty's Revenue and Customs v HFFX LLP [2026] UKSC 17, the...
Article 5 Deprivation of Liberty Requires a Concrete, Multifactorial Assessment: Cheshire West Acid Test Overruled 1. Introduction In A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland of a...
Sanctions Compliance as a “Wide Net”: Payments Under Confirmed Standby Letters of Credit Are Prohibited When “In Connection With” Aircraft-Lease Arrangements, and SAMLA s44 Shields Against Debt,...
FSMA s.39: Client Category Limits Define “Part of the Business”, Restricting Principal Liability for Appointed Representatives 1. Introduction Kession Capital Ltd (in Liquidation) v KVB Consultants...
ICSID Article 54(1) as a Treaty-Based Submission Waiving Adjudicative State Immunity for UK Registration and Enforcement Case: The Kingdom of Spain v Infrastructure Services Luxembourg S.A.R.L. &...
Section 12(1A) Terrorism Act 2000 Is Article 10–Compatible Without a Freestanding Proportionality “Defence”: Proportionality Is Built Into the Offence’s Knowledge-and-Recklessness Ingredients Case:...
Unfair Prejudice Petitions as “Actions upon a Specialty”: Remedy-Sensitive Limitation Periods under the Limitation Act 1980 1. Introduction THG Plc v Zedra Trust Company (Jersey) Ltd concerns a...
UKSC Aligns Patent-Eligibility for Computer-Implemented Inventions with EPO G1/19: Aerotel Replaced; ANNs Treated as Computer Programs; “Any Hardware” Restored Case: Emotional Perception AI Ltd v...
Dairy UK Ltd v Oatly AB [2026] UKSC 4 — “Designation” Covers Any Use “in Respect of” a Product; “Characteristic Quality” Exception Requires Clear, Unambiguous Description 1. Introduction This Supreme...
Drawing the Line: No “Lost Years” Earnings for an Infant Claimant Absent Evidence of Individual Earning Capacity Case: CCC v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Citation: [2026] UKSC 5...