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Dillon and others v Secretary of State for Northern Ireland: Supreme Court rules on the Legacy Act's compatibility with the Windsor Framework and ECHR

The Supreme Court upholds key legacy incompatibility declarations but overturns the Court of Appeal on next-of-kin participation and Windsor Framework disapplication.

Deckers v Up & Running: Court of Appeal clarifies the test for competition restrictions by object

The Court of Appeal overturns a finding that Deckers's termination of a distributor amounted to resale price maintenance.

Tripwire South LLC v Astor International: freezing order survives material change challenge

Eight alleged changes of circumstances fail to unseat a continued freezing order in a high-value explosives contract dispute.

BPA v NXT: High Court gives claimant opportunity to amend in sexual assault and harassment claim

A High Court judgement illustrating the limits of striking out and the threshold for defendant anonymity in sensitive civil proceedings.

Williams v Wilkison: High Court refuses late amendment in cauda equina clinical negligence claim

Late pleading changes could not overcome unexplained delay and a weakly formulated counterfactual

Crest Nicholson v Ardmore: building liability orders, adjudication and the limits of a stay

Building liability orders under the Building Safety Act 2022 can attach to adjudicator's decisions, and financial opacity will not satisfy the test for a stay...

Ziga v Yarnold: Upper Tribunal clarifies litigant in person costs and the two-thirds rule

When unchallenged evidence of financial loss must be taken at face value — and how the two-thirds cap should be calculated.

Guerrilla Marketing Ltd v NGM Advertising: how email chains can escalate from investigation to fraud allegation

A High Court ruling on defamatory meaning in a B2B email dispute over student advertising screens.