UK Supreme Court considers ex turpi causa in Bilta

Simon Konsta and Justin Fredrickson, Clyde & Co

Despite the simplicity of Lord Mansfield's statement, made in 1775, that “no court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action on an immoral or an illegal act", it has been, in the words of Lord Sumption, among the most heavily litigated rules of common law, "encrusted with an incoherent mass of inconsistent authority".