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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.

Bargain Busting Limited v Shenzhen SKE Technology: Court of Appeal clarifies section 12(3) threshold for unjustified threats injunctions

Court of Appeal holds that the "more likely than not" standard under the Human Rights Act 1998 applies to interim injunctions restraining trade mark threats.

Manolete Partners v Smith: company cash used to fund share sale found to be transaction at an undervalue

A joinery company's cash reserves were used to fund the purchase of its own shares — the High Court finds the payments void under the...

Wilkinson v Kirkham: court construes "the daughter" as gift to both daughters of deceased's cousin

"The daughter of Lily Mason" held to mean both daughters, taking in equal shares, under the rule in Garvey v Hibbert.

Oxford Aviation Services v Civil Aviation Authority: judicial review of RAF Northolt civil flight safety dismissed

High Court upholds CAA's safety framework for civil operations at a government aerodrome.

Fox v Steve Fellows Road Haulage Services: English court retains jurisdiction over Spanish workplace accident claims

England and Wales held to be the appropriate forum where parallel proceedings would risk irreconcilable judgements.