Patel v Mirza | |
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Court | Supreme Court |
Citation | [2016] UKSC 42 |
Case history | |
Prior action | [2014] EWCA Civ 1047 |
Keywords | |
Illegality, insider trading |
Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42 is an English contract law case concerning the scope of the illegality principle relating to insider trading under section 52 of the Criminal Justice Act 1993.[1] In 2020, the Supreme Court described this case as having set out a "a significant development in the law relating to illegality at common law".[2]