I doubt there is a word to describe the joy of discovering a tort you have not heard of before (five possible words are “need to get out more”), but if there is, I experienced it recently.
The tort in question is the snappily-named “inducing or procuring another to act in wrongful violation of rights under a judgment”. The first judge affirmatively to recognise the existence of this tort was Knowles J in Marex Financial Ltd v Sevilleja, and in view of the full name he gave it, it is perhaps not surprising that it has become known as “the Marex tort” (which is also how I will refer to it in this blog).
Marex of course became much better known as the leading modern authority on the principle of reflective loss, following the decision of the Supreme Court on that aspect of the case. But this other, lesser-known contribution it made to the legal landscape is arguably the more far-reaching.
