Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Birketts LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 29 Mar 2017 |
[2017] UKSC 24 · Supreme Court
Contractual interpretation is a unitary and iterative exercise directed to the objective meaning of the parties’ language. The court reads the disputed wording…
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| 16 May 2005 |
[2005] EWCA Civ 578 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Section 35(1) of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 permits the Employment Appeal Tribunal to exercise powers or remit a case only when it finally disposes of…
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38 |
| 16 Mar 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 517 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
An adjudicator’s decision within jurisdiction and reached in broad accordance with natural justice must ordinarily be enforced, despite errors of fact or law.…
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24 |
| 3 Feb 2005 |
[2005] EWCA Civ 77 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Rectification for unilateral mistake is an exceptional remedy. The claimant must prove that it mistakenly believed the instrument contained or omitted a…
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22 |
| 3 Dec 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 4007 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
Under a construction contract providing interim payments through a defined notice regime, the contractor’s entitlement during the project arises only through…
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14 |
| 21 Mar 2005 |
[2005] EWHC 455 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A person entitled to enforce rights arising under an insurance contract takes those rights subject to the contract’s arbitration clause, whatever the mechanism…
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8 |
| 20 Jan 2021 |
[2021] EWCA Civ 32 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A national planning policy stating that permission “should be refused” indicates refusal but does not compel it. Where proposed retail development is likely to…
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7 |
| 1 Feb 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 345 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An English court may restrain an arbitration seated in another EU Member State where the arbitration falls outside the scope of the jurisdiction regime and the…
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6 |
| 13 Mar 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 276 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A residential occupier who has no domestic law defence to a public authority’s possession claim may invoke article 8 proportionality. The court must, however…
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6 |
| 4 Jul 2007 |
[2007] EWHC 1584 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
The court has an inherent, discretionary jurisdiction to stay proceedings brought in breach of a binding agreement to adjudicate. Where such an agreement…
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6 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 19 Aug 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 309 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
Service-charge liability depends on the lease’s words. A tribunal must not enlarge a tenant’s liability to achieve a commercially convenient result or an equal…
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| 21 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1837 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
At renewal, an insured must disclose material circumstances that remain relevant to the risk and unknown to the insurer, even if they should have been…
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| 8 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1717 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
In a commercial insurance policy, a limit stated as applying to each and every loss is a per-loss limit, not an annual aggregate, unless the Schedule provides…
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| 3 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1625 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A negative environmental screening opinion is a preliminary, broad-based judgment, not a full environmental impact assessment. The decision-maker must have…
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| 29 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1520 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Rectification of an insurance policy requires proof of a clear agreement that the policy failed to record. A statement that an insurer is able to include a…
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| 28 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1263 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A request for access to a company’s register of members engages the statutory response procedure only if it complies with the mandatory information…
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| 17 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 901 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
For the purposes of the environmental impact assessment regime, “dwellinghouse development” means a development of dwelling houses in their ordinary planning…
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| 31 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 777 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Permission for judicial review of a planning permission should be refused where none of the proposed grounds is arguable. Committee debates may be considered…
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| 12 Sep 2025 |
[2025] EAT 130 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
An employment tribunal must determine claims which emerge objectively from the parties’ pleadings and remain pursued. Its role is nevertheless arbitral, not…
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| 22 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2205 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A planning authority must take into account considerations which the governing statute or applicable policy requires it to consider. It must also consider a…
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| 11 Apr 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 902 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An appellate court should exercise caution before allowing a new claim or point to be raised for the first time on appeal. Permission should ordinarily be…
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| 10 Apr 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 861 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In a statutory review of a planning decision, the court applies ordinary statutory meaning in context while respecting the decision-maker’s planning judgment.…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Birketts LLP: Batchelors Solicitors, EC3 Legal LLP, Wollastons.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Birketts 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 Birketts LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.