Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Ashurst Perkins Coie acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 23 Oct 2003 |
[2003] EWCA Civ 1446 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An inspection company which issues a certificate to enable payment under a letter of credit may assume responsibility to the buyer for the accuracy of every…
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27 |
| 11 Jun 2003 |
[2003] EWHC 1319 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An auditor conducting a substantive audit must obtain reasonable assurance that the financial statements are complete and accurate. The procedures required…
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20 |
| 17 Oct 2007 |
[2007] EWHC 2402 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A contractual insolvency trigger incorporating the commercial insolvency test in Insolvency Act 1986 section 123(1) permits consideration of debts falling due…
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18 |
| 12 Mar 2004 |
[2004] EWHC 472 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A governmental guarantee is construed as a whole. Clear language is required before an instrument is treated as imposing primary liability or as a first-demand…
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18 |
| 7 Jun 2007 |
[2007] EWHC 1330 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A contract must be construed from its final terms and admissible background circumstances. Prior drafts and negotiations generally cannot be used to show that…
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17 |
| 18 Dec 2008 |
[2008] EWHC 3436 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
When sanctioning a transfer of general insurance business under Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 Part VII, the court’s central concern is whether…
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17 |
| 17 Jun 2011 |
[2011] EWCA Civ 437 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A prohibition restricting free movement of goods must be appropriate and necessary for its legitimate objective, with disadvantages proportionate to that…
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17 |
| 30 Oct 2019 |
[2019] UKSC 50 · Supreme Court
A bank must refrain from executing an authorised payment instruction while reasonable grounds exist for believing that it is an attempt to misappropriate the…
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16 |
| 11 Oct 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 2739 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Section 68 of the Arbitration Act 1996 provides a limited supervisory jurisdiction. A tribunal fails to deal with an issue only where it has not determined a…
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15 |
| 13 Apr 2005 |
[2005] EWCA Civ 395 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A promise to pay upon a simple demand does not, by itself, create an independent demand bond. Demand bonds are specialised instruments developed principally in…
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12 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 11 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2354 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A D&O policy may make avoidance for fraudulent misrepresentation or non-disclosure conditional on a final decision of a court, tribunal or regulator, or a…
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| 19 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1126 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A claim alleging contractual breach or negligence must identify the relevant defect, breach or negligent act, and explain how it caused the loss. Alternative…
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| 28 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3146 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a multi-stage consenting process, an appropriate assessment must address adverse effects that are known or sufficiently identifiable at the relevant stage.…
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| 6 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1405 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In a planning reasons challenge, a decision-maker need not address every aspect of a policy separately where the policy criteria and underlying spatial…
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| 24 Jun 2025 |
[2025] UKPC 28 · Privy Council
For article 6(1) ECHR, the decisive question is the nature of the proceedings and the measure challenged. The exercise of public-law powers in tax matters lies…
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4 |
| 20 Jun 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1781 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The strengthened duty under section 85(A1) of the Countryside Act 2000 requires a planning decision-maker actively to seek to further the conservation and…
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| 12 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1159 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Summary judgment is inappropriate where a claim turns on disputed allegations of forgery, fraud, knowledge or authority and the evidence requires disclosure…
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| 2 Apr 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 777 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a statutory review of a planning decision, the court must interpret development-plan policies objectively and in context, but must respect the planning…
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| 7 Jan 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 16 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A contractual forfeiture provision incorporating the statutory concept of inability to pay debts on a cash-flow or balance-sheet basis requires that inability…
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| 20 Jun 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1535 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In sanctioning a takeover scheme, the court must independently verify jurisdiction, statutory compliance, proper class constitution, fair representation…
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| 7 May 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1111 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In approving a distribution plan under the Investment Bank Special Administration Regulations 2011, the court must decide for itself whether the plan is fair…
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| 18 Oct 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 2569 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a planning judicial review, an officer’s report is unlawful only where it materially misleads the decision-maker on a matter bearing on the decision, such…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Ashurst Perkins Coie: Ashurst LLP, Ashurst Morris Crisp, Ashursts.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Ashurst Perkins Coie 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 Ashurst Perkins Coie. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.