Commercial weekly highlights—15 February 2024

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This week's edition of Commercial weekly highlights includes: commentary on the Supreme Court decision to allow the appeal in Armstead v Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Company where the court held that the amount of a contractual liability that the claimant owes to a third party, when the contractual liability results from the defendant negligently damaging the claimant’s property, is not pure economic loss, and can be recovered in the tort of negligence, analysis of the challenges manufacturers of small products in the UK may face once the UK product security regime comes into force, and news that the Competition and Markets Authority has announced that it will not recommend the renewal of a block exemption to replace the existing Liner Shipping Consortia Block Exemption Regulation.