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Private Law and the UK Supreme Court: Key Cases and Decisions

Private Law and the UK Supreme Court: Key Cases and Decisions

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  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781032734811
  • Published In: September 2025
  • Format: Hardback
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This volume brings together expert commentators across different fields of Private Law to comment on a key decision by the UK Supreme Court (UKSC).

Each author explores their case’s content, as well as its broader implications for private law as a field and the Supreme Court as an institution. The work is divided into the following areas: Tort; Contract and Unjust Enrichment; Property Law and Equity. Providing expert commentary on recent authorities of the highest level in one place, the collection will enable readers interested in these areas to conveniently locate analysis that will aid them in their work. Taken together, the contributions enable identification of themes relating to continuity and change; the role of policy in private law; the structure of private law; neglecting differences in bargaining power; and the Court’s relationship with the lower courts.

As such, it will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, practitioners, judges and policymakers.

List of Contributors
Editors’ Preface

Part 1: Tort Law
1. Sienkiewicz v Greif [2011] UKSC 10
Inexorability in Causation
Emily Gordon
2. R(Lumba) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] UKSC 12
Clarifying the Approach to Torts that are Actionable Per Se
Christine Beuermann
3. Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11 and McCulloch v Forth Valley Health Board [2023] UKSC 26
Constructing Medical Disclosure in the Supreme Court
Colm McGrath
4. Robinson v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police [2018] UKSC 4
The Need for a New Landmark?
Stelios Tofaris
5. Stocker v Stocker [2019] UKSC 17
Stocker v Stocker: Defamation by Social Media at the Supreme Court
Fiona Brimblecombe
6. Poole Borough Council v GN [2019] UKSC 25
The Still Waters of Poole
Lauren Devine
7. WM Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12
Precarious Vicarious Liability
James Lee
8. Bloomberg LP v ZXC [2022] UKSC 5
The Public Interest in Non-Publicity
Oliver Butler
9. Fearn v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery [2023] UKSC 4
What is a Private Nuisance?
Sandy Steel
10. Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2024] UKSC 1
Searching for Principle in the Law of Negligently Inflicted Pure Psychiatric Harm
Eleni Katsampouka

Part 2: Contract Law and Law of Unjust Enrichment
11. Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National plc [2009] UKSC 6
Reverse Robin Hood and Banking Charges
Jodi Gardner and Christine Riefa
12. Bank of Cyprus UK Ltd v Menelaou [2015] UKSC 66
The Commissioners for HMRC v The Investment Trust Companies [2017] UKSC 29
Lowick Rose LLP v Swynson Ltd [2017] UKSC 32
The Shortest-Lived Decision in Supreme Court History?
Rory Gregson
13. Cavendish Square Holding BV v El Makdessi
ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis [2015] UKSC 67
Cavendish Square, ParkingEye, and Dunlop
John Enman-Beech
14. Marks and Spencer v BNP Paribas Securities Trust [2015] UKSC 72
Justifying Implied Terms: A Forgotten Dimension
Christopher Hose
15. Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42
The Illegality Defence: Evolution not Revolution
Graham Virgo
16. Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24
Continuity in Contractual Interpretation?
Rohan Havelock
17. One Step (Support) Ltd v Morris-Garner [2018] UKSC 20
Loss’s Edge
Benjamin Teng
18. Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd [2021] UKSC 1
One-off or Blueprint?
Max Evans
19. Pakistan International Airlines Corpn v Times Travel (UK) Ltd [2021] UKSC 40
Lawful Act Duress: Why is the UK Supreme Court So Reluctant to Support the Underdog?
Caroline van Hensbergen and Michelle L Johnson

Part 3: Property Law and Equity
20. Berrisford v Mexfield Housing Co-operative Ltd [2011] UKSC 52
Using Berrisford as ‘Intended’?
Victoria Evans
21. Jones v Kernott [2011] UKSC 53
Jones v Kernott: Beneficial Co-Ownership Revisited
Brian Sloan
22. Pitt v Holt [2013] UKSC 26
Pitt v Holt: The Ambiguity of ‘Breach of Fiduciary Duty’
Lionel Smith
23. Scott v Southern Pacific Mortgages Ltd [2014] UKSC 52
Priorities, Doctrinalism and Policy in Property Law
Amy Goymour
24. AIB Group (UK) Plc v Mark Redler & Co Solicitors [2014] UKSC 58
AIB and Equitable Compensation
Samuel Williams
25. McDonald v McDonald [2016] UKSC 28
(Dis)respecting the Home: The Legacy of McDonald v McDonald in the Supreme Court
Sarah Nield and Emma Laurie
26. Akers v Samba Financial Group [2017] UKSC 6
Samba-Dancing Around the Nature of a Beneficiary’s Interest Under a Trust
Catherine de Contreras
27. Ilott v The Blue Cross [2017] UKSC 17
Debating Disinheritance
Rebecca Probert
28. Regency Villas Ltd v Diamond Resorts (Europe) Ltd [2018] UKSC 57
Regency Villas: Radical Re-imagining or Reasoned Rehearsal of the Law of Easements?
Chris Bevan
29. Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 27
What’s the Point of Proprietary Estoppel?
Alexander Waghorn

Part 4: Conclusion
30. Reflecting Upon Key UK Supreme Court Cases in Private Law
Jenny Russell and Lewis Graham

Index

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