Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Bhatt Murphy acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 28 Jan 2014 |
[2014] EWCA Civ 45 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The immigration-detention policy for a person with serious mental illness requires a purposive and pragmatic, fact-sensitive assessment. A diagnosis alone…
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| 28 Jul 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 882 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Delegated legislation made without mandatory prior consultation or a required equality impact assessment should ordinarily be quashed. A later assessment, a…
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28 |
| 27 Feb 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 229 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Article 5(4) of the European Convention on Human Rights does not apply, save perhaps in unusual circumstances, when a determinate-sentence prisoner is recalled…
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21 |
| 10 Oct 2007 |
[2007] EWHC 2605 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The Secretary of State decides whether a life prisoner should be transferred to open conditions. The Parole Board’s recommendation is important and its…
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20 |
| 9 Sep 2008 |
[2008] EWHC 2590 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Procedural fairness is context-sensitive and does not impose a general test of exceptionality for an oral hearing. The court must weigh the importance and…
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19 |
| 25 Aug 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 2249 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Immigration detention pending deportation is lawful only while there is a realistic prospect of removal within a reasonable period. A detainee’s refusal to…
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19 |
| 5 Nov 2003 |
[2003] EWCA Civ 1522 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Article 5(1)(a) of the Convention does not ordinarily require the Secretary of State to provide offending-behaviour treatment to life prisoners. Their…
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17 |
| 22 May 2006 |
[2006] EWHC 980 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Detention under a fast-track asylum procedure is not unlawful merely because an asylum seeker alleges torture. The initial decision must be assessed on the…
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17 |
| 1 Feb 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 29 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A body which determines whether continued imprisonment is lawful must be, and appear to be, independent of both the executive and the parties. This requirement…
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16 |
| 10 Apr 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 244 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A system for administrative decision-making is unlawful where, viewed across the full run of cases, it carries an unacceptable risk of unfairness inherent in…
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16 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 19 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1524 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Closed material supplied to a Special Advocate is subject to the same fundamental restriction on collateral use as material disclosed to a party or solicitor.…
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| 3 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1329 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A policy governing immigration examination and detention is unlawful only if it positively authorises unlawful conduct or misdirects officials about the law. A…
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| 17 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 86 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 imposes a process duty. A claimant must identify the decision or exercise of functions said to…
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| 28 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 448 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Claims combining public-law challenges with statutory discrimination or damages claims should not be treated as academic merely because the challenged decision…
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| 19 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 74 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a process-rationality challenge, the court must rigorously examine the reasoning supporting a decision, particularly where serious interests are affected.…
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| 19 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1843 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971 preserves the substantive rights attached to earlier leave, but does not itself require immediate digital proof of that…
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| 12 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2131 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For an operational duty under article 2 to arise, it must be arguable that there was a foreseeable, significant or substantial, present and continuing risk to…
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| 11 Dec 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 3197 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The ARAP-AFM policy requires an applicant to be a family member of the eligible Afghan principal. “Family member” has no fixed meaning and must be construed…
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| 25 Mar 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 688 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Judicial review of a decision to offer no evidence may be sought without first exhausting the Victims’ Right to Review scheme where that review would occur…
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| 9 Feb 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 211 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A sentence of detention during His Majesty’s Pleasure retains its distinctive nature where the offender committed murder under 18, even if sentenced after…
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| 20 Dec 2023 |
[2023] UKSC 50 · Supreme Court
Under section 12 of the Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995, the court must compare the significance of the factors connecting the…
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| 28 Nov 2023 |
[2023] EWHC 3030 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Judicial review is generally concerned with present and future legality, although past unlawfulness may be relevant to assessing what remedial action is now…
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Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Bhatt Murphy 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 Bhatt Murphy. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.