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Mr Justice Constable refused to strike out claims by about 5,000 Dieselgate claimants whose solicitors, Bingham Long, served the claim form after the cut-off in the Peugeot, Citroën and DS group litigation order. He gave them 21 days to serve particulars of claim and stayed the claims outside the group litigation, but ordered them to pay their share, nearly £1 million, of the adverse costs order that followed July's liability ruling.
Mrs Justice Ellenbogen, a High Court judge and presiding judge of the Northern Circuit, has been reprimanded for serious misconduct after delays of up to 13 months in delivering five judgments, three of which were still outstanding when the decision was made in October. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Chief Justice accepted a nominated judge's recommendation, according to a Judicial Conduct Investigations Office statement.
The High Court of England and Wales ruled on October 27, 2026, that solicitors cannot avoid the common-law bar on acquiring clients' claims by transferring them to a company in which they hold shares. Master Sullivan held invalid the assignment of an £11 million loan claim to MSV Estates, whose directors had advised the original claimant, and said the rule applies before proceedings begin.
The High Court in London on October 19, 2026, held that unlawful means conspiracy claims by nearly 13,300 London black cab drivers, and by the assignee of two dissolved private hire operators, against Uber are time-barred. Mr Justice Birt, deciding a preliminary limitation issue in White v Uber London Ltd, found the claimants could with reasonable diligence have discovered the alleged fraud and concealment before June 2018, more than six years before they sued.
A two-day High Court hearing over control of the Mariana dam litigation began on October 5, 2026, after the claimant committee voted to drop Pogust Goodhead and instruct Bailey Glasser International. Pogust Goodhead argued the committee had no contractual right to terminate its agreements and that the switch could leave claimants liable for costs it estimates at £2 billion.
The Divisional Court on September 25, 2026 dismissed Sex Matters’ judicial review of CPS guidance on deception as to sex in sexual-offence charging. Dame Victoria Sharp P and Mrs Justice Heather Williams held deception as to gender identity is not incapable of vitiating consent under section 74 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, and that the draft guidance did not misstate the law, while criticising a trans/non-binary experiences passage as surprising in charging guidance.
Mr Justice Butcher in the High Court (King’s Bench) held on September 21, 2026 that a Solicitors Regulation Authority notice under s.44B of the Solicitors Act 1974 cannot require solicitors to produce documents subject to a client’s unwaived legal professional privilege. The Part 8 claim by Carter-Ruck and Mohamed Amersi followed three production notices in an SRA investigation of the firm’s work for Amersi; the SRA said it will seek permission to appeal.