Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Broadfield acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 18 Apr 2018 |
[2018] UKSC 20 · Supreme Court
Common law damages for breach of contract compensate for loss caused by non-performance. Negotiating damages are available only where that loss is…
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70 |
| 14 Dec 2016 |
[2016] UKSC 64 · Supreme Court
A review of a professional suspension is directed to the registrant’s current fitness to practise and professional rehabilitation. It asks whether impairment…
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58 |
| 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 |
| 11 Dec 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 1303 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Priority given to a first mortgagee’s power of sale may make performance of a leaseback obligation impossible, but it does not without clear words discharge…
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39 |
| 26 Oct 2009 |
[2009] EWHC 2633 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A transfer is within section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 if defeating or prejudicing creditors was a real and substantial purpose. That purpose need not be…
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28 |
| 28 Apr 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 319 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Indicative sanctions guidance which is expressly non-prescriptive does not create a tariff or confine a panel to its examples. A professional disciplinary…
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25 |
| 30 Jul 2010 |
[2010] EWHC 2032 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A director who diverts to himself or his company a business opportunity pursued by his company breaches his fiduciary duties where he acts without informed…
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21 |
| 10 Oct 2012 |
[2012] UKSC 41 · Supreme Court
A building is a “house” under section 2(1) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 only if it is both designed or adapted for living in and reasonably called a house.…
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16 |
| 18 Oct 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 3147 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A director’s duty to act in good faith is judged by the director’s honest view, but each director must inform himself and exercise independent judgment.…
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15 |
| 30 Jan 2006 |
[2006] EWHC 74 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A mortgagee may exercise a power of sale to recover all or part of the secured debt or to protect its security. Mixed motives do not invalidate the exercise…
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15 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 2 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 697 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The Supreme Court has no jurisdiction to hear an appeal from a preliminary Court of Appeal decision where permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal was not…
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| 30 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 138 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Permission to serve proceedings out of the jurisdiction requires a serious issue to be tried, a good arguable case within a jurisdictional gateway, and England…
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| 8 Dec 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3206 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
In environmental impact assessment, only likely significant environmental effects must be described and assessed. Whether an effect is significant, and whether…
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1 |
| 24 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2740 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Permission to appeal should be refused where the proposed ground has no real prospect of success and no other compelling reason justifies an appeal. A…
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| 15 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2162 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
On an application for strike out or summary judgment, pleaded facts are generally assumed to be true, but a claim may be disposed of summarily where it has no…
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| 5 Aug 2025 |
[2025] UKPC 37 · Privy Council
An appellate court may overturn a trial judge’s primary factual findings only where satisfied that the judge was plainly wrong. It is insufficient that the…
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5 |
| 3 Jun 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1472 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For the purposes of the pre-designation payment exception in regulation 58(5) of the Russia (Sanctions) (UK Exit) Regulations 2019, a contractual obligation…
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| 23 May 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 676 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A compulsory purchase order may confer an express right to create a new outfall and discharge into a private watercourse without reproducing statutory…
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| 15 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1083 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A company director’s power to bind the company does not validate a transaction entered into in bad faith to extract the company’s business for the director’s…
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| 15 Apr 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 905 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The requirement that a respondent indicate whether it consents to waiving an applicable time limit does not deem consent where the respondent fails to provide…
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| 5 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 494 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An implied agreement extending contractual time limits requires a consensus ad idem inferred objectively from the parties’ conduct. General assurances of…
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1 |
| 20 Dec 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 3255 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A former member of a limited liability partnership may apply for restoration under section 1029(2)(g) of the Companies Act 2006, regardless of when membership…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Broadfield: BDB Pitmans LLP, Pitmans LLP, Bower Cotton Hamilton LLP, Lamport Bassitt, Ambrose Appelbe, Hutchinson Mainprice.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Broadfield 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 Broadfield. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.