Law firm

Berry Smith LLP

Berry Smith LLP is named as solicitors in at least 15 UK judgments from 2003 to 2026, most often in real estate and trusts, wills and private client.

15
judgments
3
in the last five years
6
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Real estate3
  • Trusts, wills and private client2
  • Planning and environment2
  • Public and administrative law2
  • Construction and engineering2
  • Employment2
  • Intellectual property1
  • Commercial disputes1

Courts

  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)6
  • High Court9

Judgments by year

  • 20261
  • 20250
  • 20241
  • 20230
  • 20221
  • 20211
  • 20201
  • 20191
  • 20182
  • 20171
  • 20160
  • 20150
  • 20143
  • 20130
  • 20121
  • 20111
  • 20100
  • 20090
  • 20080
  • 20070

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Berry Smith LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
7 May 2014
[2014] EWCA Civ 734 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An employment tribunal deciding whether an employer failed to make reasonable adjustments must identify the relevant provision, criterion or practice and the…
8
25 Jun 2003
[2003] EWCA Civ 873 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A party seeking proprietary estoppel or other equitable relief must come with clean hands. Where the asserted equity depends upon expenditure and the claimant…
6
8 Apr 2022
[2022] EWCA Civ 481 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appellate court should refuse a new point where it would change the nature of the claim, require different evidence and argument, and necessitate a retrial.…
4
30 Jul 2014
[2014] EWHC 2604 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Security for costs is discretionary. The court must balance the claimant’s ability to pursue a proper claim against the defendant’s risk of unrecovered costs…
4

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
8 Apr 2022
[2022] EWCA Civ 481 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appellate court should refuse a new point where it would change the nature of the claim, require different evidence and argument, and necessitate a retrial.…
4
29 Jul 2021
[2021] EWHC 2137 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
At the relief stage following summary judgment, a defendant cannot reopen issues conclusively determined by the liability judgment. Damages for harassment may…
29 Apr 2019
[2019] EWHC 983 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
In construing a conveyance, the conveyance and its plan are the starting point. The physical condition of the land at the date of the conveyance may assist in…
15 Nov 2018
[2018] EWHC 3060 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Adjudication decisions will ordinarily be enforced by summary judgment. The court should intervene for breach of natural justice only where the question…
6 Jul 2018
[2018] EWCA Civ 1571 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In Wales, Planning Policy Wales imposes a discrete requirement to establish need for retail development outside defined centres. If need is absent, the policy…
1
16 Nov 2017
[2017] EWHC 2922 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On a statutory review of a planning inspector’s decision, the court must read the decision fairly, flexibly and as a whole. It must not subject individual…
1
22 Aug 2014
[2014] EWHC 2845 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
Patent claims must be construed by giving effect to their language and limitations. The word “toy” limited the claims to products of a scale that a child might…
30 Jul 2014
[2014] EWHC 2604 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Security for costs is discretionary. The court must balance the claimant’s ability to pursue a proper claim against the defendant’s risk of unrecovered costs…
4
7 May 2014
[2014] EWCA Civ 734 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An employment tribunal deciding whether an employer failed to make reasonable adjustments must identify the relevant provision, criterion or practice and the…
8
22 Mar 2012
[2012] EWHC 716 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Statutory implication of an easement under Law of Property Act 1925, section 62, requires proof that the claimed right was enjoyed with the conveyed land at…
20 Dec 2011
[2011] EWCA Civ 1589 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The jurisdiction of an employment tribunal under the Equal Pay Act 1970 depends on a contravention of a contractual term modified or included by an equality…
1
25 Jun 2003
[2003] EWCA Civ 873 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A party seeking proprietary estoppel or other equitable relief must come with clean hands. Where the asserted equity depends upon expenditure and the claimant…
6

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