Law firm

Ben Hoare Bell

Ben Hoare Bell is named as solicitors in at least 39 UK judgments from 2003 to 2026, most often in family and children and public and administrative law.

39
judgments
16
in the last five years
9
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Family and children18
  • Public and administrative law18
  • Crime8
  • Immigration and asylum6
  • Social welfare and education3
  • Media, defamation and privacy1
  • Civil liberties and human rights1
  • Court of Protection and mental health1

Courts

  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)9
  • High Court30

Counsel most often instructed

  • Maggie Jones4

Judgments by year

  • 20264
  • 20254
  • 20242
  • 20231
  • 20225
  • 20211
  • 20202
  • 20190
  • 20180
  • 20170
  • 20162
  • 20150
  • 20141
  • 20130
  • 20122
  • 20113
  • 20103
  • 20091
  • 20081
  • 20071

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
15 Jul 2016
[2016] EWHC 1771 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A prosecutorial decision is for the prosecuting authority, and the court will intervene only on established public-law grounds. The court must nevertheless…
1
1 Aug 2012
[2012] EWHC 2222 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A social services authority may ordinarily assume that no specific housing-cost allowance is required when a community care user lives with parents, close…
29 Jun 2012
[2012] EWHC 2131 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The threshold for reviewing a Pensions Appeal Tribunal decision is low, and “relevant change of circumstances” has a wide meaning. However, a later decision…
14 Apr 2011
[2011] EWCA Civ 671 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The power under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 is accommodation-based. It permits the Secretary of State to provide or arrange accommodation…
2
17 Mar 2011
[2011] EWCA Civ 276 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A judicial review claim for which permission has been granted cannot be finally determined without an oral hearing unless all parties agree. The requirement in…
2
30 Jul 2010
[2010] EWHC 1988 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A common-law duty of care cannot be imposed on a public authority where it would be incompatible with the statutory scheme governing the authority’s functions.…
20 Apr 2010
[2010] EWHC 1002 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 confers an accommodation-based power. It does not authorise subsistence support, such as vouchers, without the…
2
19 Feb 2003
[2003] EWHC 195 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Section 55 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 requires an individualised assessment of whether an asylum claim was made as soon as reasonably…
2

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