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26 decisions turning on jurisdiction.
Aerotron Limited applied to resist the recognition and enforcement in England of two Maltese judgments obtained by Hermes Aviation Limited. Hermes had served an Article 53 certificate, demanded payment and threatened a winding up…
CG is a 36 year old woman with a chronic severe psychiatric illness, principally anorexia nervosa, complicated by emotionally unstable personality disorder and features consistent with complex trauma. She has undergone repeated…
The claimants are creditors under two arbitration awards made in London-seated arbitrations. The first claimant, the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan ("SOCAR"), is the direct or indirect parent of the other…
Tesla, Inc, a Texas company, and its English subsidiary Tesla Motors Ltd wished to launch 5G-enabled vehicles in the United Kingdom, their fourth largest market. Implementing the 5G standard set by the European Telecommunications…
The appellant, Collette Chadda, complained to the Information Commissioner on 9 August 2025 about alleged systematic data protection failures by Computershare Investor Services Plc in connection with the administration of the GAM…
The applicant, H, aged 84 and a dual British and Russian citizen living at the parties' family home in Odintsovo near Moscow, brought financial remedy proceedings against W, aged 52 and also a dual British and Russian citizen who…
TE is a young person, aged 19 at the date of the First-tier Tribunal's decision, with complex social, emotional and mental health needs and a longstanding Education Health and Care plan. His mother lives in the London Borough of…
Float Capital Limited was in creditors' voluntary liquidation, with Mr Bouchier and Mr Woodthorpe appointed as joint liquidators. On 24 July 2026 Chief ICC Judge Briggs handed down a judgment, [2026] EWHC 1891 (Ch), and made two…
HI Health Ltd appealed to the First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) against a Fixed Penalty Notice issued by the Pensions Regulator on 4 February 2026 in the sum of £400. Before the substantive appeal could proceed…
P is a little girl born in England in August 2024, who holds United States, Lithuanian and British nationality. Her mother, M, is a dual Lithuanian-United States national who pursued a ballroom dancing career across the USA…
P provides intelligence gathering services and analysis in support of legal proceedings. A US law firm, C, engaged P in connection with a dispute involving the Claimants — A1 and A2, companies incorporated in Country 1, and A3, a…
The applicant mother (M), a British national serving as a senior diplomat, and the respondent father (F), a dual British and American national, are the parents of two boys, N (12) and S (10). The children were born in England and…
Sucden Financial Limited, an English derivatives and commodities broker, provided TMT Metals AG, a Swiss metal trader, with a futures and options trading facility governed by English law. When TMT failed to meet margin calls in…
The claimant, Perseus Ventures Limited, is a British Virgin Islands company owned and directed by Martin Walsh, who conducted the litigation on its behalf having been granted rights of audience by Freedman J in July 2024. The…
FGF applied for naturalisation as a British citizen in January 2020. The Home Secretary refused his application in February 2022 on good character grounds under section 6(1) of the British Nationality Act 1981, certifying that…
FA is a 67-year-old Palestinian woman resident in Gaza who wished to travel to the United Kingdom for private medical treatment for spinal stenosis, staying with her daughter, who has lived in the United Kingdom since 2006 and…
Premium Contractor Solution LLC, a company established in Ohio in the United States, brought proceedings in the King's Bench Division against Mrs Ying Kang, a Chinese national domiciled in China who owns a property in…
The applicant, Janet D'Sa, was the defendant to possession proceedings brought against her by Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council in the Wandsworth County Court. Following an earlier hearing on 21 July 2025 which gave…
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…
On Tower UK Limited, a wholesale infrastructure provider, and AP Wireless II (UK) Limited, a site aggregator, are parties to expired agreements relating to telecommunications mast sites. On Tower served notices under paragraph 33…
The appellant, Mr Sohail Tasib, is a Pakistani national who came to the United Kingdom with his family in 1998 aged six and held indefinite leave to remain from June 2006. He married a British citizen, and his parents and…
The appellant, Daytona Surf Limited, a wholesaler of optical wear, was registered for VAT with effect from 19 August 2007. Its VAT return for the period 10/07 claimed a repayment of £15,260.18 of input tax with no output tax…
The appellant, Truebell plc, is an importer and distributor of household goods in the United Kingdom, including compact fluorescent lamps ("CFLs") sourced from Ecopak in Pakistan. Following a complaint by the European Lighting…
Grattan plc appealed to the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) against decisions of HMRC. By a decision released on 12 January 2011, [2011] UKFTT 31 (TC), the tribunal decided to refer to the Court of Justice of the European Union…
Kidease Ltd applied to be registered for VAT from 1 February 2001, describing its main business activity as childcare and the provision of workplace nurseries. Its only employees were its two directors, Mr Atkey and Mrs Pattrick…
Mr Bernard Lunkowsky carries on business in Germany selling health products. He started in that business as a sole trader in 2003 and imported goods from the United Kingdom, incurring UK value added tax of £1034.23 during the…