Civil Fraud Case Update: Q2 2026

This quarterly civil fraud update provides a summary of reported decisions handed down in the courts of England and Wales in the period of April – June 2026.

Causation

The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal in Logix Aero Ireland Ltd v Siam Aero Repair Co Ltd. The issue related to whether the intervention of a fraudster broke the chain of causation in a breach of contract claim. The Court of Appeal said that there could be more than one effective cause of loss and that an intervening event would break the chain of causation only if it destroyed the wrongdoing of the defendant. Even where one cause of loss might be considered to have less of an effect, it remains a cause of loss. However, in this case, the fraud occurred before any breach of contract and the fraud had been the cause of not only the loss, but the breach of contract itself. The fraud had therefore destroyed the causative potency of the breach.