Limitation and section 994 revisited: normality resumed?
Following the Supreme Court judgment in THG Plc v Zedra Trust Company (Jersey) Ltd: [2026] UKSC 6, which was handed down on 25 February 2026, please join us for a Breakfast Talk on “Limitation and section 994 revisited: normality resumed?”
Practitioners of company law gave a collective gasp of surprise when the Court of Appeal ruled in February 2024 that unfair prejudice petitions were subject to statutory limitation.
It was an outcome which flew in the face of “received wisdom”: for 40 years everyone – judges, academics and practitioners – had been proceeding on the assumption that no statutory limitation period applied.
2 years later, and 1 year after the appeal was heard, the Supreme Court has now overturned the Court of Appeal’s 2024 ruling and decided that the received wisdom was right all along.
But was the received wisdom right for the reasons we thought? And what does the Supreme Court’s decision mean, not just for unfair prejudice petitions, but for statutory causes of action more generally?
George McPherson acted for the successful appellant in the Supreme Court, Zedra Trust Company (Jersey) Limited.
Join him to hear about the case, what it decided, what it has left for another day, and how it might influence the bringing of unfair prejudice complaints in the future.
Date: Thursday 12 March 2026
Timings:
8:15am: Registration
8:30am – 9:15am: Seminar
Venue: 3 Verulam Buildings, Gray’s Inn, London, WC1R 5NT
RSVP: events@3vb.com
