Supreme Court Watch · Term archive
Michaelmas Term 2024
Selected hearings from October and December 2024 on beneficial ownership of private-company shares, fraudulent trading and limitation after company restoration.
Reviewed 10 October 2026 against the Court’s official case and judgment records. Two completed appeals and seven archived hearing sessions are retained.
Each entry is an original, concise research summary based on the Court’s official case record. Hearing dates may change. After a hearing, the official case page normally adds recordings; when judgment is delivered, it adds the judgment, neutral citation and press summary. Those materials remain on the Court’s website and are linked here rather than reproduced.
Frenkel v LA Micro Group (UK) Ltd and others; LA Micro Group Inc v LA Micro Group (UK) Ltd and others
Question before the Court
Whether an oral agreement to transfer a 51% beneficial interest in private-company shares to their legal owners was ineffective for want of signed writing under section 53(1)(c) of the Law of Property Act 1925.
Why it matters
A leading company and equity decision confirming that the specifically enforceable bargain created a vendor-purchaser constructive trust, so the beneficial interests passed notwithstanding the absence of signed writing.
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Official archived sessions
Bilta (UK) Ltd (in liquidation) and others v Tradition Financial Services Ltd; Nathanael Eurl Ltd (in liquidation) and another v Tradition Financial Services Ltd
Question before the Court
Whether liability under section 213 of the Insolvency Act 1986 is confined to those managing or controlling the fraudulent business, and how limitation under section 32 applies to companies restored after dissolution.
Why it matters
A major insolvency and civil-fraud decision confirming the breadth of fraudulent-trading liability and clarifying the evidential burden on restored companies seeking postponed limitation for fraud-based claims.
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Official archived sessions
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