Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases BCLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 15 Mar 2013 |
[2013] EWCA Civ 200 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An implied term restraining arbitrary, capricious or irrational conduct arises where a party has a contractual discretion requiring an assessment or choice…
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44 |
| 11 Dec 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 1303 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Priority given to a first mortgagee’s power of sale may make performance of a leaseback obligation impossible, but it does not without clear words discharge…
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39 |
| 27 Oct 2010 |
[2010] UKSC 44 · Supreme Court
The without prejudice rule broadly protects genuine settlement negotiations from admission in evidence. It does not, however, exclude objective facts…
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36 |
| 3 Jul 2008 |
[2008] EWHC 1530 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Permission to serve proceedings outside the jurisdiction requires a reasonable prospect of success, a good arguable case that a jurisdictional gateway applies…
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29 |
| 31 Jul 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 849 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On an application for permission to serve proceedings outside the jurisdiction, England may be the proper forum even though another country is the natural…
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29 |
| 11 Jan 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 12 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The adequacy of a sustainability appraisal, strategic environmental assessment or habitats assessment is reviewed on conventional Wednesbury grounds. The…
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23 |
| 21 Jun 2011 |
[2011] UKPC 17 · Privy Council
The jurisdiction under section 37(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 is judicially circumscribed but capable of incremental development. A receiver by way of…
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22 |
| 1 Nov 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 1729 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A three-dimensional mark consisting of a product’s shape has inherent distinctive character only if it departs significantly from the norms or customs of the…
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22 |
| 24 Jan 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 12 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A person may be an appellant under CPR r 52.1(3)(d) although they were not a party to the proceedings below. The separate definition of respondent does not…
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20 |
| 30 Jan 2006 |
[2006] EWHC 74 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A mortgagee may exercise a power of sale to recover all or part of the secured debt or to protect its security. Mixed motives do not invalidate the exercise…
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15 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 22 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2259 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A distinct contractual claim for late-completion compensation must be identified in the claim form or particulars of claim and supported by the material facts.…
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| 28 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2240 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A defendant seeking compensation under a cross-undertaking after a freezing injunction has been discharged is ordinarily entitled to an inquiry. There is a…
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| 22 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1311 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Indemnity costs require conduct which takes the case out of the norm. The touchstone is unreasonableness to a high degree, rather than mere error or misguided…
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| 20 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1196 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A challenge under section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996 is a complete rehearing. The court must decide whether the tribunal was correct, rather than whether…
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| 17 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 891 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
In a procurement challenge under the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016, the court’s role is supervisory. It must identify a clear and material error…
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3 |
| 17 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 870 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A seller may serve a notice to complete only if ready, able and willing to perform the substantive obligations falling due on completion. Chattels included in…
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| 16 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 877 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Legal advice privilege is not confined to documents passing directly between lawyer and client. It may extend to intra-client communications and documents…
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| 16 Feb 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 74 (TCC) · Upper Tribunal: Tax and Chancery Chamber
VAT is chargeable when a supplier makes a real supply of availability or access, even if the customer later makes little or no use of it. The correct analysis…
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| 23 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3396 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On an application to sanction an insurance business transfer scheme under Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, the court must first determine whether the…
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| 19 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3425 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Summary judgment may be granted where the defence has no real prospect of success and no other compelling reason for trial. The court need not accept factual…
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| 18 Nov 2025 |
[2025] UKUT 376 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
In compulsory-purchase compensation claims for loss of profits, the claimant must establish the profits or losses in the real world and in the hypothetical “no…
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| 26 Sep 2025 |
[2025] UKUT 312 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
On an appeal concerning a Certificate of Appropriate Alternative Development, the Tribunal must determine the proposed development as if the application had…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, BCLP: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, Bryan Cave, Berwin Leighton, Berwin & Co.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which BCLP 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 BCLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.