Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Addleshaw Goddard acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 10 Mar 2010 |
[2010] UKSC 14 · Supreme Court
Contract formation depends on an objective assessment of the parties’ words and conduct. The court asks whether they intended legal relations and agreed every…
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128 |
| 14 May 2021 |
[2021] UKSC 16 · Supreme Court
For liability to non-domestic rates on unoccupied property, the statutory owner is normally the person with the immediate legal right to possession. In an…
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62 |
| 18 May 2005 |
[2005] EWCA Civ 595 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Protection for private information is afforded through the action formerly called breach of confidence, now focused on misuse of private information. The…
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47 |
| 15 May 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 488 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where substantive proceedings have fallen away but costs remain disputed, the court may determine costs by a summary assessment of the likely merits. It need…
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32 |
| 30 Sep 2024 |
[2024] EWCA Civ 1109 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For a freezing injunction, a good arguable case on the merits is a case which is more than barely capable of serious argument. It does not require the court to…
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27 |
| 15 May 2014 |
[2014] EWCA Civ 658 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The reason for dismissal is the factor operating on the mind of the person who made the decision. An employer’s enthusiasm for dismissing an employee does not…
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25 |
| 16 Oct 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 1567 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A counterparty which secretly and dishonestly assists a fiduciary adviser to procure a transaction by abusing its duty of undivided loyalty may be unable to…
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24 |
| 15 Apr 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 1178 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A representation of law can in principle found an estoppel by representation. The position remains subject to reasonable reliance, the nature of the statement…
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18 |
| 28 Feb 2018 |
[2018] UKSC 14 · Supreme Court
For limitation purposes, company directors are treated as trustees and as having received company property through their fiduciary stewardship. A director who…
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17 |
| 25 Jul 2003 |
[2003] EWCA Civ 1058 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A signed document can create an immediate binding contract when, construed purposively against its factual background, it manifests an intention to be…
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17 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 7 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2298 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Costs ordinarily follow the event where a claimant succeeds in a fully contested judicial review, but the recoverable proportion may be adjusted for a distinct…
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| 18 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2184 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A transaction at an undervalue may be established where a company transfers valuable intellectual property for a licence that is effectively worthless to it.…
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| 20 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1651 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Where the NPPF requires a Sequential Test, it must be undertaken before any Exception Test; mitigation cannot be used to bypass that sequence. A failure to…
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| 17 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2300 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A post-termination restraint is enforceable only if objectively reasonable in the parties’ interests and not contrary to the public interest. Where a holding…
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| 29 Jun 2026 |
City Outdoor Media Limited v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government & Anor
[2026] EWCA Civ 829 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A discontinuance notice under regulation 8 of the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England) Regulations 2007 is valid where the authority…
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| 24 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1555 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The Financial Ombudsman Service’s jurisdiction depends on an identifiable act or omission within the applicable time limit in DISP 2.8.2 R. An unfair credit…
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| 21 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1228 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A withdrawal of withdrawable share capital by a registered society may be a transaction for the purposes of Insolvency Act 1986, but it is not necessarily a…
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| 8 May 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 553 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A restriction by object under section 2 of the Competition Act 1998 must reveal a sufficient degree of harm to competition. The inquiry is strict and requires…
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| 6 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1057 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Part 8 proceedings are unsuitable where the validity and interpretation of contractual payment notices depend materially on disputed or incomplete factual…
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| 6 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1056 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
On a summary judgment application, the unsuccessful applicant will ordinarily pay the respondent’s costs. That starting point may be adjusted where the…
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| 1 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1029 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Permission to amend a statement of case should be assessed by applying the merits test to any genuinely new case advanced by the proposed amendments. The…
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| 4 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 228 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
An intervener directly affected by an injunction application may obtain its reasonable costs where it is properly joined and materially assists the court. The…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Addleshaw Goddard: Theodore Goddard, Addleshaw Booth & Co, Booth & Co.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Addleshaw Goddard is named as solicitors, counted under the firm's current name. The figures are minimums: not every judgment names the solicitors, and a judgment is counted only when we are confident who acted. The selection of cases listed here is limited, and does not include family, criminal or anonymised cases. Firm details include data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. zoomLaw is independent and not connected with Addleshaw Goddard. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.