Legal research · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Business and Property Appeals Watch
A selective, source-led guide to commercially significant appeals arising from the Chancery Division, Commercial Court and Business and Property Courts nationally.
Scope
Selective by design; not a complete appellate listing service.
- Included
- Company, insolvency, commercial, fraud, property, arbitration, financial and closely related appeals with practical specialist relevance.
- Excluded
- Most family, immigration, public-law and general civil appeals, even though they are heard by the Civil Division.
- Source standard
- Original concise summaries linked to Judiciary listings, court recordings and judgments where available.
Forthcoming appeals · checked 31 August 2026
No selected forthcoming appeal can yet be safely listed.
The Court is in the long vacation and the official Civil Division material presently provides daily or near-term listings rather than a dependable term-ahead calendar. This page will add a case only when its hearing date and origin are verifiable from an official listing. The absence of an entry does not mean that no Business and Property appeal is pending.
Check the current official daily list →Last completed term
Trinity Term 2026: two selected completed hearings.
The archive is limited to appeals closely aligned with commercial judgment enforcement, commercial insurance and secured lending. Each entry links directly to the Judiciary’s case record, which controls if a listing, party description or status changes.
ADS Securities LLC v Windhorst
Business and Property Courts / High Court enforcement proceedings
IssueWhether contempt findings and a suspended 18-month sentence should stand after non-attendance at a court-ordered examination intended to obtain financial information for enforcement of a judgment.
Practical significanceA practical commercial-enforcement appeal about examinations, undertakings and contempt proceedings against a person closely connected with a corporate judgment debtor.
Official listing and hearing material →Lloyd’s Insurance Company SA v Oceanus Capital SARL
Commercial Court
IssueWhether a mortgagee could recover under mortgagee’s interest insurance after a vessel struck a naval mine, including the proximate cause of loss, privity and the effect of a forged extension of cover.
Practical significanceA substantial marine-insurance and secured-lending appeal about causation and recovery where the underlying war-risks cover was declined.
Official listing and hearing material →Editorial method and limitations
Appeals are selected for relevance to Alexander's Commercial Chancery practice and its professional audiences. Summaries are independently written from official public records. The page does not reproduce restricted skeleton arguments, does not imply that Alexander appeared in the cases, and is not a substitute for the daily list, judgment or legal advice.