Patel v Mirza

Patel v Mirza
CourtSupreme 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. 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".