United Kingdom: Trials & Appeals & Compensation

In R (University of Sussex) v Office for Students [2026] EWHC 984 (Admin), the High Court quashed the decision of the Office for Students (the OfS) to find the University of Sussex (the UoS)...

From landmark cases in the House of Lords to decades of helping families navigate life's most challenging transitions, Christopher Monro reflects on a legal career spanning nearly five decades. What drives a solicitor to shift from landlord-tenant litigation to family law, and what lessons emerge from representing clients at the highest levels of the UK court system?

The London Commercial Court has granted a final anti-suit injunction in a dispute over an arbitration clause, rejecting arguments based on Louisiana law and ordering the defendants to pay damages for legal fees incurred in resisting US proceedings. The case centered on whether an arbitration agreement requiring disputes to be resolved in London under English law could be challenged based on mandatory Louisiana statutes.

The Court of Appeal refused to grant an anti-suit injunction to restrain Russian proceedings, underscoring the Court's reluctance to grant such relief where disputes have a strong connection to a foreign forum

The decision underscores the court's reluctance to grant such relief where disputes have a strong connection to a foreign forum - here the security was governed by Russian law and an exclusive Russian jurisdiction clause

The Commercial Court has considered the implications of an asymmetric English jurisdiction clause where the borrower brought proceedings in England and the lender brought parallel proceedings in Singapore: Spec 1 Ltd v The Export-Import Bank of China [2026] EWHC 1162 (Comm).

When a share purchase agreement's price adjustment mechanism requires payment for balance sheet entries that don't correspond to actual assets, can the buyer be forced to pay twice for the same money?

The Court of Appeal examines whether fixed costs apply when a claimant accepts a Part 36 offer after a personal injury claim exits the Pre-action Protocol and is allocated to the multi-track.

The decision confirms that a third party's voluntary intervening act will normally break the chain of causation between a defendant's breach of contract and a claimant's loss.