The High Court refused TMS Legal’s strike-out and summary judgment applications in Vanquis’s unlawful means tort claim arising from mass irresponsible lending complaints.
Vanquis Bank Ltd v TMS Legal Ltd [2025] EWHC 1599 (KB) (25 June 2025)
The High Court refused TMS Legal’s strike out and summary judgment applications in Vanquis Bank’s unlawful means tort claim over mass irresponsible lending complaints.
MA Fastmove Ltd v Global Billpay Private Ltd & Ors [2024] EWHC 2922 (Comm) (14 November 2024)
The High Court granted summary judgment for Fastmove against Billpay and FMC on contract issues, and for Billpay on trust. The claim against Mr Salamat was adjourned.
The Court found that none of the defendants engaged in anti-competitive collusion or concerted practices in breach of competition law; all decisions to withdraw from Phones 4U were taken independently and were commercially rational in the context of market developments, particularly the Dixons/CPW merger. The evidence did not support any unlawful exchange of confidential information or commitments between the MNOs. EE did not breach its contract with Phones 4U, as its decision not to renew was taken in accordance with its commercial interests and not in bad faith. Parent company liability and…
The court held that post-resignation, the defendants did not owe free-standing fiduciary duties beyond those codified in section 170(2) of the Companies Act 2006. Claims based on breach of contract, misuse of confidential information, and breaches of statutory fiduciary duties during directorship were fit for trial, except where the pleadings were unsustainable or insufficiently linked to actionable wrongs. Claims based solely on forming an intention to compete, preparatory steps post-employment, or indefinite restraints were struck out. Claims for economic torts and knowing assistance were a…
The Defendants, in particular FEC UK, EHFL, Mr Connolly, and Mr Alford, were found liable for breach of contract (NDA), misuse of confidential information, and conspiracy. Mr Alford was found to owe and breach fiduciary duties to the Claimant. The Court awarded damages of £2 million, representing a reasonable release fee for the Claimant's position, but declined to order an account of profits against the corporate Defendants. The Court found no liability for dishonest assistance or procuring breach of contract against Mr Connolly, EHFL, or FEC UK, as the requisite knowledge or intent was not…
Phones 4U Ltd v EE Ltd & Ors [2023] EWHC 2826 (Ch) (10 November 2023)
The High Court rejected claims that mobile operators colluded over Phones 4U’s exit and that EE breached contract. It also declined adverse inferences from missing material.
Ensign House Ltd v Ensign House (FEC) Ltd & Ors [2023] EWHC 1563 (Ch) (27 June 2023)
High Court Chancery judgment on the Ensign House dispute, involving alleged misuse of confidential information, fiduciary breach, conspiracy, and damages.
Kew Green Group Ltd & Anor v Lamb & Ors [2023] EWHC 1289 (KB) (30 May 2023)
Strike-out and summary judgment application in a hotel-management dispute. The court allowed some claims to proceed to trial and struck out others that were unsustainable.