9 October Case Updates Sara & Hossein Asset Holdings Ltd v Blacks Outdoor Retail Ltd [2023] UKSC 2 05. Alternative Dispute Resolution, Expert Determination, Manifest Error The case concerned the non-payment by a tenant of a commercial service charge. In considering the tenant’s permitted contractual defences of “manifest or mathematical error or fraud”, the Supreme Court construed the meaning of “manifest error” narrowly.
13 June Case Updates Setting The Goal Posts in Expert Determination Cases For “Manifest Error” Exceptions Alternative Dispute Resolution, 16. Criticism and Complaints, 17. Maintaining your professional edge, ADR, Expert Determination, Manifest Error Within this update we feature the well-publicised case of WH Holding Limited and E20 Stadium LLP [2025] EWHC 140 (Comm). The case concerns a successful challenge of an expert’s decision in the context of a concession agreement for sporting events. The claim was initiated as a High Court claim for declaratory relief under Part 8 of the Civil Procedure Rules. The judgment was released in January of this year having been heard by Paul Mitchell KC last December.