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case law update

March 8, 2024

The Federal Republic of Nigeria v Process & Industrial Developments Limited [2023] EWHC 2638

Background: In 2010, the Nigerian government entered a 20-year contract with Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID). In this contract, the government promised to construct a pipeline […]
February 19, 2024

R (Pinochet Ugarte) v Bow St Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate

R (Pinochet Ugarte) v Bow St Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate is a set of three UK constitutional law judgements by the House of Lords. This landmark case […]
January 6, 2024

R (on the application of PACCAR Inc and others) (Appellants) v Competition Appeal Tribunal and others (Respondents) [2023] UKSC 28

Background The dispute arose from applications to bring collective proceedings in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (the Tribunal), under section 49B of the Competition Act 1998, against […]
January 1, 2024

Republic of Mozambique (acting through its Attorney General) (Appellant) v Privinvest Shipbuilding SAL (Holding) and Others (Respondents) [2023] UKSC 32

Introduction On 20 September 2023, Lord Hodge, Lord Lloyd Jones, Lord Hamblen, Lord Leggatt, and Lord Richards delivered the United Kingdom Supreme Court judgement on the […]
December 22, 2023

Fearn and others (Appellants) v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery (Respondent) [2023] UKSC 4

BACKGROUND In addition to the main public viewing gallery, the Tate Modern Art Museum built an extension, a new building named the “Blavatnik Building”. The top […]