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Not easily, because I don't have access to the legal databases, and much of what I've said about decisions has come from discussions with friends and some of that will have come from personal experience, not case histories. They DO have access to the databases, though, so I'll see what they can (and will) look up. But as I said, in small claims cases, the opinion of the factory may well never come into it because they may well not be consulted. The whole point of the small claims track is to keep cases about s,all claims small and cheap, and that means the court limits evidence by "experts" to ensure that private claimants and buried by corporate legal muscle and hordes of experts. And most small cases, unless there are complex legal issues, or where the claim is over £5000, end up in the small claims track.
I think you will find that any such cases are actually to settle a dispute between customer and supplier. I have yet to hear of any case where a court has overturned the verdict of a manufacturer. The point I'm trying to make is that while a court does have the authority to overturn the rulings of a factory you will find that they do not have the ability to do so. While related, authority and ability being 2 different things. By default the factories rulings will always stand for the sheer reason of lack of any credible higher authority.