“…reliminary issues at two hearings in November 2020. He gave two judgments in favour of the defendants in March 2021 ([2021] EWHC 670 (Ch), [2021] 4 WLR 71, and [2021] EWHC 671 (Ch)). In March 2022 the Court of Appeal dismissed the Brakes’ appeal against the second of those judgments ([2022] EWCA Civ 235).…”
“…I do not propose to recite in any detail the complicated background to this case which is set out at length in the judgment under appeal, reported at [2021] EWHC 671 (Ch). The salient features are as follows.…”
“…The trial judgment, which as stated above is reported at [2021] EWHC 671 (Ch), extended to 305 paragraphs over 88 pages. For the purposes of the appeal, the important points can be summarised as follows.…”