The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[2025] AC 738
Supreme Court
Zavarco plc
v
Nasir
[2025] UKSC 5
2024 July 9; 2025 Feb 19
Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Hamblen, Lord Leggatt, Lord Stephens, Lady Rose JJSC
Judgment— Doctrine of merger— Declaratory judgment— Court granting claimant’s application for declaration that shares allotted to defendant unpaid for— Claimant bringing claim in debt to recover sum payable— Whether claimant’s cause of action in debt extinguished by merging in declaration— Whether doctrine of merger capable of applying to declarations—
Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c 27), s 34[1]