Practice areas
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Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Acuity Law acted in that later judgments cite most often.
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| 24 Feb 2021 |
[2021] EWCA Civ 227 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The restraint of trade doctrine has no single exhaustive threshold test. A court must first identify a practical restraint and then assess, by reference to…
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| 14 Jul 2023 |
[2023] EWCA Civ 837 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A respondent requires permission to appeal where it seeks to challenge or vary the lower court’s order. Permission is unnecessary where it seeks only to uphold…
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| 24 May 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 1291 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A contracting authority has a broad discretion to abandon a procurement before contract award. That discretion does not, without clear statutory authority…
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| 30 Jan 2024 |
[2024] EWCA Civ 39 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For Francovich damages in public-procurement litigation, a claimant must separately establish a sufficiently serious breach. Proof that, but for an error, the…
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Recent cases
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| 3 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2279 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
An application for pre-action disclosure cannot be served out of the jurisdiction against a foreign respondent for documents located abroad unless the…
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| 31 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2025 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
An interim injunction restraining a credit reference agency from publishing or linking county court judgments requires a serious issue to be tried. Where the…
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| 23 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1446 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where a purchaser fails to complete a land sale, the vendor’s loss is ordinarily measured by the contract price less the price obtained on a subsequent resale.…
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| 21 Apr 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 139 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
A restrictive covenant may be discharged where its original purpose has been fulfilled and substantial changes have made it obsolete. A use supported by…
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| 1 Apr 2026 |
[2026] UKSC 11 · Supreme Court
Under section 39 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, an authorised person may accept responsibility for only part of a prescribed business carried…
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| 3 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2491 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A Part 36 offer is construed in its contractual and procedural context. A payment previously made on account of an alternative claim may be treated as included…
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| 30 Sep 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2462 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An interim anti-suit injunction may be granted to restrain foreign proceedings brought in breach of an exclusive jurisdiction clause where the applicant…
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| 26 Sep 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1206 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A contractual provision deeming a shareholder to have served a transfer notice after a material or persistent breach must be construed according to its wording…
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| 4 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1889 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A contractual notice clause must be construed by its own wording and commercial purpose. A notice need not identify every warranty by number where it…
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| 12 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 553 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Post-termination restrictions in an employment contract are prima facie unlawful. The employer must establish a legitimate business interest, show that the…
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| 10 Jan 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 25 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where limitation is the sole basis of challenge, expiry of the limitation period does not mean that a claim discloses no reasonable grounds under Civil…
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| 5 Aug 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2035 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where a settlement agreement requires the deletion of confidential documents in a party’s possession or control, the obligation is not confined to documents…
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