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The Court of Appeal has found that a buyer gave sufficient notice of a claim for breach of warranty under a share purchase agreement where the notice specified a different basis for assessing loss than was ultimately pursued: Drax Smart Generation Holdco Ltd v Scottish Power Retail Holdings Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 477.
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In a judgment out today, the Supreme Court has unanimously overturned the Court of Appeal’s decision that a shipowner was not entitled to rely on a force majeure clause in a shipping contract when its charterer’s parent company became subject to US sanctions. It found that, contrary to the Court of Appeal’s decision, the shipowner

The High Court has held that a foreign government body did not have control, for the purposes of its disclosure obligations, of documents held by various other government bodies and professional services providers, as the documents of those third parties were not within its practical control: The Public Institution for Social Security v Al-Wazzan [2024]

The High Court has determined questions of case management and disclosure following on from its previous ruling (considered here) that group claims against Shell Plc and its Nigerian subsidiary relating to oil contamination in the Niger Delta must proceed as “global claims”, in light of the claimants’ failure to identify the particular spills said