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March 8, 2026

The last 12 months have provided us with an unusually rich crop of influential cases. From high-stakes constitutional questions to everyday commercial disputes, judgments from the UK’s senior courts illustrate how quickly and significantly the legal landscape can shift. In fields as diverse as public law, immigration, environmental planning, consumer … Read more

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February 15, 2026

Veale v Scottish Power: mesothelioma settlements, statutory releases, and relatives’ claims after discharge

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In Veale (and others) v Scottish Power UK Plc, the UK Supreme Court was asked a tight but commercially significant question: where an injured person settles (and thereby discharges the defender’s liability) before developing mesothelioma, can the statutory “mesothelioma exception” still allow the person’s relatives to pursue the non‑patrimonial head of claim after the person later dies of mesothelioma?

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February 15, 2026

No vicarious liability for judicial misconduct: X v The Lord Advocate

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In X v The Lord Advocate, the Supreme Court held the Crown cannot be vicariously liable for delicts allegedly committed by a Scottish sheriff because stage 1 fails: the relationship is not akin to employment. The key driver is constitutional structure – executive “control” is incompatible with judicial independence.

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Evans v NatWest Markets Plc and others (UKSC/2023/0173) FX markets screen

February 14, 2026

Evans: Supreme Court tightens the route to opt-out competition collective proceedings

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In Evans v NatWest Markets Plc the UK Supreme Court allowed the banks’ appeal and reinstated the specialist tribunal’s refusal to certify Phillip Gywn James Evans’ application for opt-out collective proceedings in a follow-on foreign exchange (FX) damages claim, emphasising the breadth of the Tribunal’s discretionary case-management role and the limited proper scope of appellate intervention.

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February 14, 2026

JCT termination after Providence v Hexagon: the Supreme Court closes the ‘repeat default’ shortcut

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In Providence Building Services Limited v Hexagon Housing Association Limited the UK Supreme Court has resolved a narrow but high-impact question of contractual interpretation in the JCT Design and Build Contract 2016 termination regime: can a contractor terminate under clause 8.9.4 for a repeated “specified default” where the earlier default was cured within the 28‑day period, so that the clause 8.9.3 right to terminate never arose?