The latest legal cases from across the courts, covering significant rulings, ongoing proceedings and decisions that shape the law
A split Supreme Court holds the section 5 personal injury exception removes Bahrain's immunity where spyware was remotely installed on UK computers, Lords Leggatt and Burrows dissenting.
The Supreme Court holds that English courts can declare whether patent pool licence terms are FRAND at an implementer's request, reversing the…
Two Court of Appeal rulings in Sucden v TMT Metals [2026] EWCA Civ 1080 confirm the tort gateways for nickel fraud claims…
The Supreme Court in Augustine v Data Cars [2026] UKSC 30 holds part-time status need only be an effective cause of less…
In CYK v Davis [2026] EWHC 2093 (Ch), HHJ Johns KC refused to strike out a £20m negligence counterclaim for warehousing but…
The EAT has dismissed the University of Bristol's appeal, confirming the pleaded anti-Zionist belief as protected under the Equality Act 2010, while…
The iniquity exception does not bite merely because a claimant instructed enquiry agents who ended up holding the other side's confidential material,…
An unfair prejudice petition under section 994 succeeded in Peter Waddell HoldCo v Bluebell Cars Holding [2026] EWHC 2028 (Ch), against a…
Small claims track costs are harder to recover after Orton v Barclays, in which the Court of Appeal held the CPR 27.14(2)(g)…
Pre-action disclosure was refused in UBP v L Catterton even though every CPR 31.16 threshold condition was satisfied, because the requests made…