Private Law and the UK Supreme Court Key Cases and Decisions

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 CC 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

Biography

Jenny Russell is Lecturer in Property Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London.

Lewis Graham is Fellow in Christ’s College, University of Cambridge.