Banks Kelly Solicitors: court cases and practice areas

Banks Kelly Solicitors

Banks Kelly Solicitors is named as solicitors in at least 11 UK judgments from 2012 to 2026, most often in trusts, wills and private client and public and administrative law.

judgments

in the last five years

in the Supreme Court or Privy Council

in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

Trusts, wills and private client2
Public and administrative law2
Tax2
Insolvency and restructuring1
Company and partnership1
Media, defamation and privacy1
Family and children1

Courts

Privy Council1
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)4
High Court6

Counsel most often instructed

Philip Coppel3

Judgments by year

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20190
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20160
20152
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20130
20121

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Banks Kelly Solicitors acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date	Case	Cited by
23 May 2014	Hone & Ors v Abbey Forwarding Ltd & Anor [2014] EWCA Civ 711 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Compensation under a cross-undertaking in damages is normally assessed by analogy with contractual damages. A defendant may recover loss naturally flowing from…	19
29 Sep 2017	HM Revenue and Customs v Citibank NA & Anor [2017] EWCA Civ 1416 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) A taxable person may be denied deduction of input VAT where it knew or should have known that its transaction was connected with fraudulent VAT evasion.…	14
6 Feb 2015	Abbey Forwarding Ltd (In Liquidation) v HM Revenue & Customs [2015] EWHC 225 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division An undertaking in damages given on the appointment of a provisional liquidator does not automatically terminate when a winding-up order is later made. The…	4
29 Sep 2021	SULEYMAN JAVADOV AND IZZAT KHANIM JAVADOV (R on the application of) v WESTMINSTER MAGISTRATES’ COURT [2021] EWHC 2751 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court A magistrates’ court may hear an application for an account freezing order in private where the application is made without notice under section 303Z1(4) of…	3

Recent cases

Date	Case	Cited by
30 Sep 2026	Satish Jamnadas Chatwani & Ors v Chirag Mehta & Ors [2026] EWHC 2455 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division A charitable constitution is construed using ordinary contractual principles, read against the background reasonably available to users of the public document.…
30 Jul 2025	B & Ors, R (on the application of) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2025] EWHC 1984 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court The Investigatory Powers Tribunal’s privacy orders do not determine the confidentiality or publicity of separate proceedings in the Administrative Court. The…
4 Apr 2022	Nature Resorts Ltd v First Citizens Bank Ltd (Trinidad and Tobago) [2022] UKPC 10 · Privy Council Undue influence is a single doctrine. Actual and presumed undue influence are different methods of proof. A presumption requires a relationship of influence…	2
29 Sep 2021	SULEYMAN JAVADOV AND IZZAT KHANIM JAVADOV (R on the application of) v WESTMINSTER MAGISTRATES’ COURT [2021] EWHC 2751 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court A magistrates’ court may hear an application for an account freezing order in private where the application is made without notice under section 303Z1(4) of…	3
23 Nov 2017	CCA Distribution Ltd v The Commissioners for HMRC [2017] EWCA Civ 1899 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) On an appeal on a point of law, an appellate tribunal may interpret an unclear decision below, but a fact-finder assessing circumstantial evidence must…	1
29 Sep 2017	HM Revenue and Customs v Citibank NA & Anor [2017] EWCA Civ 1416 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) A taxable person may be denied deduction of input VAT where it knew or should have known that its transaction was connected with fraudulent VAT evasion.…	14
6 Feb 2015	Abbey Forwarding Ltd (In Liquidation) v HM Revenue & Customs [2015] EWHC 225 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division An undertaking in damages given on the appointment of a provisional liquidator does not automatically terminate when a winding-up order is later made. The…	4
2 Jul 2014	Hone & Ors v Abbey Forwarding & Anor [2014] EWCA Civ 899 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Costs in complex litigation may be determined by a broad-brush assessment of the parties’ conduct and the issues on which they succeeded or failed. The court…
23 May 2014	Hone & Ors v Abbey Forwarding Ltd & Anor [2014] EWCA Civ 711 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Compensation under a cross-undertaking in damages is normally assessed by analogy with contractual damages. A defendant may recover loss naturally flowing from…	19
11 Dec 2012	Abbey Forwarding Ltd & Anor v Hone & Ors [2012] EWHC 3525 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division Compensation under a cross-undertaking is assessed by analogy with contractual damages, applying principles of causation, remoteness and mitigation, while…

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Banks Kelly Solicitors 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 Banks Kelly Solicitors. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.