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Mex Group Worldwide v Ford: High Court orders inquiry into losses from discharged freezing order

A worldwide freezing order, weaponised on the eve of its collapse, triggers a damages inquiry.

Hughes v Kirklees Council: Court of Appeal upholds dementia care home sale despite outdated cost figures

Court of Appeal confirms Council acted lawfully in selling two specialist dementia care homes, rejecting irrationality challenge.

Sculfor v MGN: when does the limitation clock start ticking in phone hacking claims?

The High Court's preliminary issue judgement in five Mirror newspaper hacking claims clarifies how section 32 of the Limitation Act 1980 applies to claimants who were misled, living abroad, or advised by solicitors not to proceed.

YC v Secretary of State for the Home Department: implied power to correct erroneous grants of indefinite leave to remain

Court of Appeal confirms the Home Office may withdraw an ILR grant issued through clerical error.

BHP v Município de Mariana: when foreign anti-suit proceedings can constitute criminal contempt

Court of Appeal clarifies the narrow circumstances in which procuring foreign injunctive relief may cross into contempt of court.

VTB Bank v Kuanyshev: freezing order thresholds, fortification and third-party property disputes

High Court dismisses respondents' bid to raise asset disclosure threshold but orders £500,000 payment into court as fortified cross-undertaking.

McGowan v Potter: county court jurisdiction to enforce charging orders clarified

County court's equity jurisdiction — not ancillary LPA 1925 powers — governs enforcement of charging orders up to £350,000.

LXLP v St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: causation fails despite admitted negligence in cerebral palsy claim

Cerebral palsy claim dismissed where antibiotic omissions admitted but causal link to PVL unproven.