Law firm

Bermans

Bermans is named as solicitors in at least 18 UK judgments from 2005 to 2026, most often in commercial disputes and insolvency and restructuring.

18
judgments
5
in the last five years
7
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Commercial disputes12
  • Insolvency and restructuring3
  • Real estate2
  • Company and partnership1
  • Civil fraud and asset recovery1
  • Trusts, wills and private client1
  • Intellectual property1
  • Employment1

Courts

  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)7
  • High Court11

Judgments by year

  • 20261
  • 20251
  • 20242
  • 20231
  • 20220
  • 20212
  • 20202
  • 20190
  • 20180
  • 20172
  • 20160
  • 20152
  • 20141
  • 20131
  • 20120
  • 20111
  • 20100
  • 20090
  • 20080
  • 20070

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Bermans acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
12 Oct 2011
[2011] EWCA Civ 1115 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A clear notice of resignation or dismissal ordinarily takes effect according to the ordinary meaning of its terms. Once given, it cannot be unilaterally…
8

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
30 Apr 2026
[2026] EWCA Civ 513 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In construing a parent-company guarantee, the court must read the instrument objectively as a whole and against its commercial background. A liquidator’s…
20 Jun 2025
[2025] EWHC 1510 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An indemnity covering costs and liabilities arising from an authorised guarantee agreement applied only where those costs and liabilities also arose from the…
28 Jun 2024
[2024] EWHC 1636 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where a company is insolvent or likely to enter insolvent liquidation, a director must give proper consideration to the interests of creditors. The duty is…
17 Jul 2023
[2023] EWHC 1822 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
On a summary judgment application, the court may decide that a defence previously found arguable on an interlocutory application has no real prospect of…
8 Dec 2021
[2021] EWHC 3296 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
A composite sign containing a registered word mark is not identical to that mark where the additional elements form part of the sign perceived by the average…
17 Mar 2021
[2021] EWHC 622 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A court hearing a claim for delivery up at a fixed-date hearing may determine the issue summarily where the evidence discloses no realistic defence or…
24 Nov 2020
[2020] EWHC 3273 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Norwich Pharmacal relief is exceptional and confined to disclosure of necessary information, rather than evidence or material sought to explore whether a claim…
1
20 Nov 2020
[2020] EWHC 3139 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An order under paragraph 71 of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 is discretionary. The court must be satisfied both that the proposed sale is likely to…
1
13 Nov 2017
[2017] EWHC 2796 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Commercial loans advanced to a company may be legally binding even where later advances are undocumented. The court may infer their terms from the parties’…
6 Sep 2017
[2017] EWHC 2215 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
When a commercial running account governed by foreign law must be restated, the court must apply the governing contractual provisions and the relevant…
17 Dec 2015
[2015] EWCA Civ 1908 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An assignee of a debt takes subject to an equitable set-off where the debtor’s cross-claim is so closely connected with the assigned claim that it would be…
1
24 Jun 2014
[2014] EWCA Civ 870 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where an intermediary is authorised to submit a customer's hire proposal to a finance company, that authority ordinarily includes authority, at least…

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