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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 2634 (TCC)
Case No: HT-2025-000079
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
KING'S BENCH DIVISION
BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES
TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION COURT
Royal Courts of Justice, Rolls Building
Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1NL
Date: 20th October 2025
Before :
Mr Justice Eyre
Between :
International SOS Assistance UK Limited | Claimant |
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SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE | Defendant |
Joseph Barrett KC (instructed by Pinsent Masons LLP) for the Claimant
Rhodri Williams KC And Jonathan Lewis (instructed by Government Legal Department) for the Defendant
Hearing date: 2nd October 2025
Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.00am on 20th October 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.
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MR JUSTICE EYRE
Mr Justice Eyre :
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- Introduction
- The Factual Background in Outline
- The Issues on the Pleadings
- The Procedural History
- The Approach to be taken
- The Adequacy of Damages for the Claimant
- Difficulties in the Calculation of Damages
- The Effect on the Claimant’s Prospects of obtaining other Contracts and on the Claimant’s Operation more generally
- The Effect of the Defendant’s pleaded Defence that the Breaches alleged are not sufficiently serious to warrant an Award of Damages
- The Adequacy of Damages for the Defendant
- The Claimant’s Cross-undertaking in Damages
- The Balance of Convenience
- Conclusions