Law firm

Birchall Blackburn

Birchall Blackburn is named as solicitors in at least 14 UK judgments from 2004 to 2019, most often in public and administrative law and commercial disputes.

14
judgments
0
in the last five years
7
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Public and administrative law3
  • Commercial disputes2
  • Civil liberties and human rights2
  • Real estate2
  • Family and children1
  • Crime1
  • Professional discipline and regulation1

Courts

  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)7
  • High Court7

Judgments by year

  • 20260
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  • 20220
  • 20210
  • 20200
  • 20191
  • 20181
  • 20170
  • 20160
  • 20152
  • 20140
  • 20131
  • 20121
  • 20110
  • 20100
  • 20091
  • 20083
  • 20073

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Birchall Blackburn acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
1 Apr 2004
[2004] EWCA Civ 392 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A guarantee is interpreted in the same way as any other contract. The court must ascertain what the document would convey to a reasonable person possessing the…
16
24 Apr 2009
[2009] EWHC 1061 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
At the GMC’s initial screening stage, the Registrar must decide whether an allegation, if established, is capable of supporting a finding that fitness to…
5
5 Nov 2008
[2008] EWCA Civ 1211 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The Fairchild exception to ordinary causation applies only where the claimant has proved all that can be proved, but current scientific knowledge makes it…
3

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
22 Feb 2018
[2018] EWHC 303 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
A genuine agency arrangement does not justify implying a contract of employment between a supplied worker and the end-user. Such a contract may be implied only…
23 Jan 2013
[2013] EWHC 218 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
When deciding whether to transfer a prisoner to open conditions, the Parole Board must conduct a balanced assessment of risk and benefit. Risk reduction has…
24 Apr 2009
[2009] EWHC 1061 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
At the GMC’s initial screening stage, the Registrar must decide whether an allegation, if established, is capable of supporting a finding that fitness to…
5
5 Nov 2008
[2008] EWCA Civ 1211 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The Fairchild exception to ordinary causation applies only where the claimant has proved all that can be proved, but current scientific knowledge makes it…
3
19 Aug 2008
[2008] EWCA Civ 1014 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a claim form contains claims governed by different service periods, service outside the period applicable to one claim does not invalidate the form for…
29 Jan 2008
[2008] EWCA Civ 18 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The meaning of an assignment is determined objectively, by asking what it conveyed to a reasonable person with the background knowledge reasonably available to…
1 Apr 2004
[2004] EWCA Civ 392 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A guarantee is interpreted in the same way as any other contract. The court must ascertain what the document would convey to a reasonable person possessing the…
16

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