For masochists like me who actually enjoy reading all the sort of stuff - the original judgement can be read in full here:
Brewer v Mann & Ors (14-Oct-2010) and the full appeal hearing here:
Brewer v Mann & Ors (07-Mar-2011) ... and good luck!
To my mind, the most sensible comment on the whole affair is the very last paragraph of the appeal transcript...
We would also express our regret, even if in so doing we are ignorant of everything there might be to know about the course of these proceedings, that the parties did not manage to settle their disputes without litigation, or at least prior to trial.
The sums at issue were not large, at any rate when once the car had been bought back by SMRL, something which Mr Mann had offered from an early stage.
In these circumstances it seems a shame that the parties could not have found for themselves a solution which sufficiently satisfied them all, so as to avoid much trouble, distress and risk. Litigation of this kind is or ought to be a matter of last resort.
~iw
