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17 August 2021EuropeBeatriz San Martin and Shishu Chen

NHS v Servier: unlawful means tort claim fails, but the long-running saga continues

In this article, we summarise the Supreme Court’s judgment which upholds the lower courts’ decisions in refusing to allow the NHS to avail itself of the tort of unlawful means against Servier, and we comment on the reasoning of the Supreme Court.

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