The Court of Appeal has applied existing law and held that parties' solicitors' written communications did not establish a binding contract for settlement of a dispute. Where negotiations were stated as "subject to contract", there was a binding agreement only when a formal contract was entered into by the parties. The case involved disagreement over a loan and charge over property. The parties compromised existing legal proceedings by agreeing that the property could be sold

The High Court rejected a jurisdiction challenge, holding that England was the appropriate forum for a malicious falsehood claim brought by the owner of Qatar Airways (QAG). The judgement dealt with several matters and included a particularly interesting finding regarding the principle of forum non conveniens. Given the difficulty in establishing a real risk of substantial injustice before a foreign court, the judge regarded the political context as being most important in we