Supreme Court Watch · Term archive
Trinity Term 2026
Selected hearings from June and July 2026, with the legal question, practical significance and direct routes to the Court’s recordings, judgments and press summaries.
Reviewed 16 September 2026 against Alexander’s practice areas. Five appeals concerning commercial contracts, company law, arbitration and cross-border insolvency are retained; public-law, criminal, family and specialist patent matters are omitted.
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.
Great Asia Maritime Ltd v Orion Shipping and Trading LLC
Question before the Court
Whether a contractual promise to pay ‘due compensation’ following cancellation under the Norwegian Saleform 2012 permits recovery of loss-of-bargain damages without a repudiatory breach.
Why it matters
A commercially important decision on contractual termination, agreed compensation and damages in ship-sale contracts, with wider significance for the construction of express remedial provisions.
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Star Hydro Power Ltd v National Transmission and Despatch Co Ltd
Question before the Court
Whether the English court may restrain foreign proceedings which ostensibly seek partial recognition and enforcement of a London-seated award under the New York Convention.
Why it matters
A significant arbitration appeal at the boundary between supervisory jurisdiction, anti-suit relief and the international enforcement regime.
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Saxon Woods Investments Ltd and others v Costa
Question before the Court
What standard of conduct section 172 of the Companies Act 2006 requires from a director who genuinely disagrees with fellow directors about the course most likely to promote the company’s success.
Why it matters
A leading company-law decision on directors’ loyalty and good faith in the setting of an agreed exit process, shareholder arrangements and an unfair-prejudice petition.
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Kingdom of Spain v London Steam-Ship Owners’ Mutual Insurance Association Ltd (No 2)
Question before the Court
Whether section 13 of the State Immunity Act 1978 prevents an arbitrator from awarding an injunction, equitable damages or equitable compensation against a state for breach of an obligation to arbitrate.
Why it matters
A significant appeal on arbitral remedies and state immunity arising from the long-running Prestige enforcement litigation.
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Drelle v Servis-Terminal LLC
Question before the Court
Whether a bankruptcy petition can be founded on a foreign judgment that has not first been recognised in England and Wales.
Why it matters
A leading cross-border insolvency decision on the use of foreign judgments as petition debts. Alexander appeared in the Court of Appeal consequential hearing; this entry comments on the later Supreme Court proceedings and does not suggest that he appeared there.
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