Private Law and the UK Supreme Court

Part I: Tort Law 1. Sienkiewicz v Greif [2011] UKSC 10 Inexorability in Causation 2. R(Lumba) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] UKSC 12 Clarifying the Approach to Torts that are Actionable Per Se 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 4. Robinson v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police [2018] UKSC 4 The Need for a New Landmark? 5. Stocker v Stocker [2019] UKSC 17 Stocker v Stocker: Defamation by Social Media at the Supreme Court 6. Poole Borough Council v GN [2019] UKSC 25 The Still Waters of Poole 7. WM Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12 Precarious Vicarious Liability 8. Bloomberg LP v ZXC [2022] UKSC 5 The Public Interest in Non-Publicity 9. Fearn v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery [2023] UKSC 4 What is a Private Nuisance? 10. Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2024] UKSC 1 Searching for Principle in the Law of Negligently Inflicted Pure Psychiatric Harm Part II: 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 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? 13. Cavendish Square Holding BV v El Makdessi; ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis [2015] UKSC 67 Cavendish Square, ParkingEye, and Dunlop 14. Marks and Spencer v BNP Paribas Securities Trust [2015] UKSC 72 Justifying Implied Terms: A Forgotten Dimension 15. Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42 The Illegality Defence: Evolution not Revolution 16. Wood v Capita Insurance Services Ltd [2017] UKSC 24 Continuity in Contractual Interpretation? 17. One Step (Support) Ltd v Morris-Garner [2018] UKSC 20 Loss's Edge 18. Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd [2021] UKSC 1 One-off or Blueprint? 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? Part III: Property Law and Equity 20. Berrisford v Mexfield Housing Co-operative Ltd [2011] UKSC 52 Using Berrisford as 'Intended'? 21. Jones v Kernott [2011] UKSC 53 Jones v Kernott: Beneficial Co-Ownership Revisited 22. Pitt v Holt [2013] UKSC 26 Pitt v Holt: The Ambiguity of 'Breach of Fiduciary Duty' 23. Scott v Southern Pacific Mortgages Ltd [2014] UKSC 52 Priorities, Doctrinalism and Policy in Property Law 24. AIB Group (UK) Plc v Mark Redler & Co Solicitors [2014] UKSC 58 AIB and Equitable Compensation 25. McDonald v McDonald [2016] UKSC 28 (Dis)respecting the Home: The Legacy of McDonald v McDonald in the Supreme Court 26. Akers v Samba Financial Group [2017] UKSC 6 Samba-Dancing Around the Nature of a Beneficiary's Interest Under a Trust 27. lott v The Blue Cross [2017] UKSC 17 Debating Disinheritance 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? 29. Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 27 What's the Point of Proprietary Estoppel? Part IV: Conclusion 30. Reflecting Upon Key UK Supreme Court Cases in Private Law