Father and son had farmed land together for decades; they had formed a successful partnership in 1983.

Dispute Resolution analysis: Deputy ICCJ Schaffer has dismissed an application brought by the Respondents to a claim brought by the Joint Liquidators of BHS Group Ltd for wrongful trading.

Dispute Resolution analysis: In a case where a bankruptcy was annulled on the basis that the alleged tax liability was ill-founded and misconceived, HMRC has been ordered to bear the OR's and the trustees' costs of the bankruptcy.

Dispute Resolution analysis: The Commercial Court has rejected an assertion by Cs of litigation privilege in respect of a category of documents in proceedings coming shortly to trial.

Dispute Resolution analysis: A long-standing judgment creditor has failed in largely undefended claims for unlawful means conspiracy and the Marex tort in a judgment which shines significant light...

Dispute Resolution analysis: An admitted contemnor subject to a suspended warrant for committal has been ordered to attend in person for cross examination in relation to the assets of a company he controlled.

Dispute Resolution analysis: The Court of Appeal has upheld the decision at trial that a Cypriot property development company is liable for losses caused to individual investors by way of misrepresentation...

Dispute Resolution analysis: The Court of Appeal has overturned a decision of ICC Judge Jones in which he found in favour of an individual who claimed that the share in a company...

The Secretary of State for Transport obtained an injunction in March 2020 which prohibited "persons unknown" from trespassing on land held for the purposes of the HS2 rail project.

Dispute Resolution analysis: The High Court has granted default judgment on part of a counterclaim against the Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority in a long-running set of proceedings, following the decision...

Colin White, Frances White v Merwin Amirthan Amirtharaja, Jennifer Shiromi Amirtharaja [2022] EWCA Civ 11, 13 January 2022...

The changes extending fixed recoverable costs (FRC) to most civil litigation claims with a value of up to £100,000 are now here and were implemented on 1 October 2023.

Dispute Resolution analysis: The Court of Appeal has drawn a distinction between late applications to adduce factual evidence and late applications to rely upon expert evidence.

The question does not specify who the proposed Claimant is in this example or their relationship to the contractual parties. This note proceeds on the assumption that they are connected...

Dispute Resolution analysis: On appeal, it has been held that a master should have struck out a claim brought by a victim of authorised push payment (‘APP') fraud against a recipient bank...

Dispute Resolution analysis: Permission given to a party to rely on a witness statement served well after the deadline imposed by the Court directions in circumstances where it became clear to that party ...

The recent judgment of Pepperall J in Martlet Homes Ltd v Mulalley and Co Ltd [2021] EWHC 296 emphasised the point that a new case or new allegations should not be pleaded in the Reply, but in an Amended Particulars of Claim instead.

The Court of Appeal (Henderson LJ, with whom Asplin and Birss LJJ agreed) has handed down judgment in HMRC v IGE USA Investments and others, an important appeal about the scope of the ...

The tenant appellants had applied for rent repayment orders naming two parties they understood to be their landlords, for managing an unlicensed house in multiple occupation.

On 8th July 2025 Mr Justice Fancourt handed down his long awaited judgment in Cooper v Ludgate House Ltd [2025] EWHC 1724 (Ch).