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Contract law

Lee Castleton v Post Office Limited & Anor

The Court of Appeal set aside a case-management order for a preliminary trial on settlement and unconscionability issues, finding the hybrid use of assumptions and findings unworkable.

  • Settlement agreements
  • Unconscionability
  • Preliminary issues
  • Pleading requirements
  • Preliminary-issues
  • Settlement-agreements
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Civil procedure [2026] EWCA Civ 577

Castleton v Post Office Ltd & Anor (Rev1)

Castleton v Post Office Ltd & Anor (Rev1) [2026] EWCA Civ 577 (12 May 2026)

The Court of Appeal set aside a case management order that used a hybrid approach to preliminary issues about a settlement deed and unconscionability in the Post Office litigation.

  • Settlement agreements
  • Unconscionability
  • Preliminary issues
  • Pleading requirements
  • Fraudulent misrepresentation
  • Preliminary-issues
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Civil procedure [2026] EWHC 158 (Ch)

Castleton v Post Office Ltd & Anor

Castleton v Post Office Ltd & Anor [2026] EWHC 158 (Ch) (30 January 2026)

The High Court ordered a split trial, with Part A issues about the settlement deed and alleged fraud to be tried before the wider claims.

  • Group litigation order
  • Settlement agreement
  • Fraudulent misrepresentation
  • Unconscionability
  • Abuse of process
  • Preliminary issues
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Tort law [2026] EWHC 38 (KB)

Limbu & Ors v Dyson Technology Ltd & Ors

Limbu & Ors v Dyson Technology Ltd & Ors [2026] EWHC 38 (KB) (14 January 2026)

Case management decision in migrant-worker claims against Dyson: the court orders lead claimants and a liability trial, but excludes unjust enrichment for now.

  • Negligence
  • Intentional torts
  • Unjust enrichment
  • Case management
  • Split trials
  • Preliminary issues
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Medical negligence [2025] EWHC 3056 (KB)

Shaheen & Anor v Daish

Shaheen & Anor v Daish [2025] EWHC 3056 (KB) (28 November 2025)

The High Court found a GP failed to tell a patient about a chest x-ray request, held he would have attended if informed, and rejected contributory negligence.

  • Failure to inform patient
  • Contributory negligence
  • Duty of care
  • Preliminary issues
  • Clinical-negligence
  • Medical-negligence
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Employment law

JP v Spelthorne Borough Council

The Employment Judge did not err in considering whether the appellant was disabled during the relevant period as discerned from the pleadings and submissions, and was entitled to conclude that the relevant period ended at the date of dismissal, as there was no discernible allegation of discrimination after that date.

  • Disability discrimination
  • Practice and procedure
  • Equality act 2010
  • Preliminary issues
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Defamation [2025] EWHC 1784 (KB)

Ness v Miller

Ness v Miller [2025] EWHC 1784 (KB) (15 July 2025)

The High Court decided preliminary defamation issues in Christopher Ness's claim against Jennifer Miller, holding that the YouTube video did not refer to him and that Miller was not shown to have published the emails.

  • Libel
  • False imprisonment
  • Uk gdpr
  • Data protection act 2018
  • Preliminary issues
  • Reference to claimant
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Defamation

Frank Warren v Christopher Livingstone Eubank Jnr

Preliminary issue in a defamation claim about comments made at a boxing press conference. The court held the words meant the claimant had frequently lied and cheated in business dealings.

  • Meaning of defamatory statements
  • Libel
  • Slander
  • Preliminary issues
  • Defamation
  • Meaning-of-words
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Defamation

David Paisley v Graham Linehan (Costs)

The court held the claimant’s unclear defamation pleadings caused a needless second hearing and ordered him to pay 50% of the defendant’s costs, plus a £23,000 payment on account.

  • Libel
  • Pleading requirements
  • Contextual material
  • Costs orders
  • Preliminary issues
  • Defamation
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