15 decisions turning on contractual construction.
Tax LawFirst-tier Tribunal (Tax)22 Apr 2026[2026] UKFTT 1128 (TC)Added 6 Aug 2026
Tapi Carpets Limited is a flooring retailer operating 220 stores in the United Kingdom, selling carpets, vinyl, laminate and engineered wood, largely to domestic customers. Where a customer bought flooring, the customer could…
Property / Real Estate LawUpper Tribunal (Lands Chamber)5 Aug 2026[2026] UKUT 295 (LC)
Mrs Reshma Tachkani holds the long lease of flat 10 at Thornfield Green, Camberley, a development of 24 residential units divided between four blocks set in their own gardens and grounds. She holds two leases, described by the…
Family LawThe Family Court20 Jul 2026[2026] EWFC 224Added 6 Aug 2026
The applicant husband, in his early 40s and Head of Investor Relations at an investment equity finance partnership, and the respondent wife, also in her early 40s and largely a child-carer and homemaker who is now studying at a…
Commercial LawThe Business and Property Courts (Technology and Construction Court)4 Aug 2026[2026] EWHC 2054 (TCC)
The claimant, a civil engineering and groundworks contractor, was subcontracted by ISG Construction Ltd to carry out groundworks on a school extension project in Penarth for the defendant, Vale of Glamorgan Council. The Main…
Property / Real Estate LawThe Business and Property Courts (Business List)4 Aug 2026[2026] EWHC 1934 (Ch)
Hawridge Strategic Land Limited, a land promoter, sued Millen Homes Limited, a developer, over an option agreement affecting land at Bicknacre Road, East Hanningfield, Chelmsford. On 14 June 2019 the defendant entered an Option…
Civil ProcedureThe Business and Property Courts (Technology and Construction Court)24 Apr 2026[2026] EWHC 1497 (TCC)Added 3 Aug 2026
Atlantic Projects Company (UK) Limited, referred to as APC, was engaged by EP NI Energy Limited, a special purpose vehicle incorporated for the development of a power station in Northern Ireland, as contractor for the design…
Commercial LawHigh Court (Commercial Court)31 Jul 2026[2026] EWHC 1996 (Comm)
FW Aviation (Holdings) 1 Limited ("FWA"), a Jersey aircraft leasing company within the FitzWalter Capital group, leased four Airbus A321 aircraft — two New Engine Option ("NEO") and two Current Engine Option ("CEO") — to the…
Company LawThe Court of Appeal of England and Wales (Civil Division)31 Jul 2026[2026] EWCA Civ 1023
Glint Pay Ltd (GPL) and its subsidiaries Glint Pay Services Ltd and Glint Pay UK Ltd operate a gold-backed debit card app. In January 2019 GPL borrowed £1.65 million from Brahma Finance (BVI) Ltd, secured by a debenture granting…
Company LawHigh Court (Business and Property Courts)30 Jul 2026[2026] EWHC 2004 (Ch)
Mr Philip Gamett and Mr Paul Hughes have known each other since childhood and began a wholesale t-shirt business, Hardwear Inc, together in about 1994. Continental Clothing Company Limited was incorporated in July 1998 as its…
Company LawThe Business and Property Courts (Insolvency and Companies List)25 Jun 2026[2026] EWHC 1868 (Ch)Added 30 Jul 2026
Green Parks (Holdings) Limited owned the freehold of the intended Westbeach Holiday Resort at Westward Ho! near Bideford, Devon, which it proposed to develop in seven blocks. On 4 April 2016 it granted a 999-year headlease to…
Commercial LawThe Business and Property Courts (Commercial Court)30 Jul 2026[2026] EWHC 1914 (Comm)
The claimant, Trafigura PTE Limited, a Singapore-incorporated commodities trader, sold gasoil and gasoline to the defendant, Société Nationale de Raffinage (SONARA), an oil refining company 96% owned by the Republic of Cameroon…
Civil ProcedureHigh Court (Circuit Commercial Court)30 Jul 2026[2026] EWHC 1856 (Comm)
Onecom Partners Limited, a leading UK provider of telecommunications and cloud-based services, supplied telecoms and cloud services to resellers known as Reseller Partners, who in turn sold to their own end customers. Yello Voice…
Tax LawFirst-tier Tribunal (Tax)2 Oct 2009[2009] UKFTT 256 (TC)Added 6 Aug 2026
The appellant, Airtours Holiday Transport Limited (formerly My Travel Group PLC), appealed against assessments totalling just over £1 million issued by the respondents to recover what they said was over-claimed input tax; the…
Tax LawVAT and Duties Tribunal26 May 2006Added 6 Aug 2026
The appellant, Redcats (Brands) Ltd, formerly Empire Stores Limited, sells clothing and household goods by mail order through bi-annual catalogues such as Empire, The Store, La Redoute, Verbaudet and Daxon, and is the…
Tax LawSpecial Commissioners of Income Tax23 May 2006Added 6 Aug 2026
SCA Packaging Limited, an international paper company with manufacturing plants across Great Britain, made a number of employees redundant at its Histon, Lydbrook and Edinburgh branches between 1996 and 2001. The severance…