Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Blake Morgan acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 6 Jun 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 932 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The reasonableness of an offer to purchase a minority shareholding is a fact-sensitive part of the overall assessment of unfair prejudice. No single feature is…
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126 |
| 29 Jul 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 883 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In a cumulative-cause case, a claimant may establish causation by proving that the defendant’s breach made a material contribution, meaning a contribution…
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54 |
| 4 Oct 2021 |
[2021] UKPC 24 · Privy Council
A court possessing equitable or statutory injunction powers may grant a freezing injunction against a person over whom it has personal jurisdiction to support…
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44 |
| 29 Jul 2005 |
[2005] EWCA Civ 959 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A fiduciary who makes an unauthorised profit within the scope of a fiduciary duty must account for it. The remedy is directed to stripping the fiduciary of…
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39 |
| 2 Apr 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 291 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A director nominated by a shareholder owes no duty to the nominator merely because of the nomination. When acting as a director, the director must exercise…
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31 |
| 25 Apr 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 368 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a claimant obtains a money judgment exceeding a defendant’s Part 36 payment, the claimant is ordinarily the successful party and should receive costs…
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20 |
| 26 Nov 2004 |
[2004] EWHC 2683 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
An optician owes a duty to exercise the reasonable care and skill of a reasonably competent optician. A referral to hospital does not excuse a failure to make…
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19 |
| 23 Apr 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 419 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An estate agent engaged on terms granting commission upon exchange with “a purchaser introduced by” the agent must introduce the person to the purchase, rather…
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15 |
| 8 Dec 2022 |
[2022] EWCA Civ 1605 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A statutory time limit for an appeal cannot ordinarily be extended where the statute contains no extension power. However, the court must read the provision…
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15 |
| 10 Nov 2022 |
[2022] UKPC 41 · Privy Council
On a second or further appeal, the Privy Council will ordinarily decline altogether to review concurrent findings of fact by the two courts below. This…
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15 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 11 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2145 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In planning enforcement, the judicial review time limit runs from the decision first giving rise to the grounds unless later correspondence contains a…
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| 17 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1309 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A post-termination non-compete covenant in an employment contract is enforceable only where it protects a legitimate business interest and goes no further than…
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| 11 Jun 2026 |
[2026] UKPC 25 · Privy Council
A contract may provide the contractual basis for payment of a statutory end-of-year gratuity. The employer’s obligation is discharged if the contractual…
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| 27 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 743 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On an appeal from a professional disciplinary decision, the court may intervene only where the decision was wrong or unjust because of serious procedural or…
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| 6 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 164 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Permission to serve proceedings outside the jurisdiction requires four matters to be established: a serious issue to be tried, a good arguable case within a…
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| 3 Feb 2026 |
[2026] UKPC 4 · Privy Council
The statutory requirement that a chair be independent of Government, Business and Labour concerns freedom from their control or influence and the personal…
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| 17 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3300 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On an appeal from a professional disciplinary tribunal, the appellate court must respect the tribunal’s advantage in assessing evidence and its professional…
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| 27 Nov 2025 |
[2025] UKPC 56 · Privy Council
The statutory just and equitable winding-up jurisdiction permits equity to restrain exercise of otherwise valid legal rights where personal considerations…
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2 |
| 24 Nov 2025 |
[2025] UKPC 53 · Privy Council
An insurer that promises to invest policy assets according to the policyholder’s chosen mandate is responsible for that investment duty, even where asset…
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5 |
| 25 Jun 2025 |
[2025] UKPC 29 · Privy Council
Under a price-fluctuation clause incorporating FIDIC Conditions, a contractor that has not complied with the contractual notice and record-keeping process may…
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| 23 Jun 2025 |
[2025] UKPC 27 · Privy Council
Under a Torrens registration system, an instrument creates and binds successors according to the substance of the rights it records, not merely the label…
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| 23 Jun 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1558 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An express trust may arise notwithstanding that the legal title remains with a company and the trust is imperfectly documented. The court may determine the…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Blake Morgan: Morgan Cole, Blake Lapthorn, Blake Lapthorn Linnell, Tarlo Lyons, White & Bowker, CIP Solicitors, Linnells.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Blake Morgan 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 Blake Morgan. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.