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The Role of Policy and What It Means for the Conduct of Claims for Building Safety Disputes

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In URS Corporation Ltd v BDW Trading Ltd [2025] UKSC 21, the Supreme Court has dismissed URS' appeal on all four grounds in its decision handed down on 21 May 2025. The case will be remitted to the TCC to determine the...more

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UK Supreme Court ruling in ZXC: radical curtailment of press freedoms or a principled restatement and alignment of existing law...

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On 16 February 2022, in its judgment in Bloomberg LP v ZXC, the UK Supreme Court unanimously held that in general, and as a legitimate starting point, a person under criminal investigation has, prior to being charged, a...more

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UK Supreme Court Upholds First Successful Claim for Breach of Quincecare Duty

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In a leading case, the Court examined the extent of the duty of care that a bank owes to its customers when executing their orders. On 30 October 2019, the UK Supreme Court dismissed Daiwa’s appeal in the case of...more

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English High Court Applies New “Range of Factors” Test to Defence of Illegality

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New “range of factors” test suggests broad use in future civil matters and fairer, more nuanced outcomes. The High Court has applied the new fact-sensitive “range of factors” test in Harb v Aziz to determine whether a...more

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High Court Willing to Set Aside Arbitral Awards on Public Policy Grounds

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On 6 June 2017, the High Court held that there was sufficient evidence that an award of over US$500 million in damages against the Republic of Kazakhstan may be tainted by fraud and that this should be examined at trial...more

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UK Supreme Court Adopts New “Range of Factors” Approach to Defence of Illegality

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The UK Supreme Court has rejected a formal “reliance” test to determine whether a defendant to a civil claim can rely on the claimant’s wrongdoing to defeat the claim, replacing it with a more fact-sensitive “range of...more

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