Court Report

Articles

Alame v Shell: High Court allows Niger Delta claimants' 'all-spills' causation case

High Court permits claimants' broader oil spill causation case to proceed to 2027 trial.

Entain v Liquidity Trading: High Court strikes out betting group's copyright claim over brand logos

IP judge strikes out Entain's copyright claim over Ladbrokes and Coral logos pending re-pleading.

Grantham v Bournemouth Council: EAT upholds strike out despite autism evidence oversight

EAT finds judge's failure to consider psychologist's letter did not affect unfair dismissal strike out.

Bourlakova v Bourlakov: High Court refuses to halt estate's Ukrainian matrimonial property claim

Chancery Division declines to block Estate's matrimonial property counterclaim amid parallel foreign proceedings.

Court of Appeal overturns special guardianship order in Re E amid threshold criteria failure

Court of Appeal rules judge wrongly bypassed threshold and proportionality tests in special guardianship case.

Commercial Court refuses Conex Oil & Gas bid to stay PSTV Energy guarantee claim

High Court declines to stay $23m guarantee claim despite parallel Liberian proceedings on the same dispute.

Fulmar Contracting Ltd, Re: High Court rejects liquidators' claims against doctors paid via fraudulent umbrella company

Deputy ICC Judge Parfitt dismisses both contractual and transaction-at-undervalue claims brought against two consultant doctors who had declared their earnings to HMRC.

Aramark Limited v HMRC: Upper Tribunal upholds NICs assessment on offshore staffing scheme

The Upper Tribunal declines to depart from its own recent Bilfinger ruling, confirming a £6.8 million secondary Class 1 NICs liability.