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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.

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.