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Note the highly interesting penultimate para from the judgment!

"Conspiracy
Although proof of conspiracy is logically the first step in the applicant's case, we have deferred dealing with it until now because it calls for detailed consideration only if GWM can persuade the court that they have a real prospect of success on other essential aspects of its case. Since we do not think they can, we propose to say no more than this: that, if this were the only issue to which the appeal gave rise, we would have been willing to grant permission to appeal, at least in relation to the allegation that Thompsons acted in conjunction with others to ensure, so far as it lay within their power to do so, that the application was heard by Sir Michael Turner. That is not by any means to say that we think an appeal on that ground would succeed; simply that the prospects of success on that narrow issue are sufficient to justify giving permission. We have greater doubts in respect of an appeal in relation to procuring a breach of contract on the part of Templeton. In paragraphs 224 to 237 the judge set out the evidence relating to that issue (which was almost entirely oral) and gave reasons for preferring the evidence of one witness to that of another. He clearly formed a very unfavourable impression of Mr. Brunswick, Templeton's chairman and managing director, and a favourable view of Mr. Shears, the partner of Thompsons who had primary responsibility for the litigation. We think the court would be very reluctant to overturn his findings of fact on that question, but in the event nothing turns on that."