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When your career path forks, which way will you go – the Supreme Court or Strictly Come Dancing? Two new-ish books will help you decide.
First, what is going through the mind of Lord Sumption, the appellate answer to Craig Revel Horwood? A crack team of academics and practitioners investigate – in the commercial law sphere anyway, as
Challenging Private Law from Hart Publishing pre-dates the Covid restrictions which rile him so.
From contract damages to piercing the corporate veil, his contribution on the Supreme Court bench is analysed in a hefty critique stemming from a Cambridge Private Law Centre conference in 2019.
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The court also concluded that the Orient Express case, which insurers relied on during the hearing, was wrongly decided and should be overruled.
The Supreme Court has ruled largely on the side of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and policyholders, according to the judgment in the business interruption test case appeal published today (15 January).
Both policyholders and insurers lodged appeals on certain aspects of the original judgment.
The Supreme Court said in the judgment: “Although we have accepted some of the insurers’ arguments on their appeals, in no case has that affected the outcome of the appeal. It follows that the insurers’ appeals are dismissed.”