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Burness Paull LLP

Burness Paull LLP is named as solicitors in at least 10 UK judgments from 2017 to 2025, most often in employment and construction and engineering.

10
judgments
5
in the last five years
1
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
2
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Employment4
  • Construction and engineering2
  • Cross-border disputes2
  • Commercial disputes1
  • Arbitration1
  • Planning and environment1
  • Public and administrative law1

Courts

  • Supreme Court1
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)2
  • High Court3
  • Employment Appeal Tribunal4

Judgments by year

  • 20260
  • 20252
  • 20241
  • 20231
  • 20221
  • 20212
  • 20200
  • 20190
  • 20182
  • 20171

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Burness Paull LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
25 Oct 2017
[2017] UKSC 66 · Supreme Court
A planning obligation under section 75 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 need not relate to a particular permitted development. It must…
15
4 May 2021
[2021] EWCA Civ 625 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A court should not permit service outside the jurisdiction where a valid arbitration agreement binds the relevant parties and covers the dispute. Broad…
4

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
22 Jan 2025
[2025] EAT 8 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
Payments promised under an employer’s permanent health insurance scheme may be wages where the contractual documents create a direct employer obligation to pay…
1
7 Jan 2025
[2025] EAT 3 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
Where an employment tribunal may make an order under section 113 of the ERA, it must first consider reinstatement and, if it declines that remedy, must then…
18 Apr 2024
[2024] EAT 57 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
International jurisdiction and the territorial reach of employment legislation are separate issues. In proceedings concerning an individual employment…
2
7 Nov 2023
[2023] EWHC 2782 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
An order for security for costs requires both a qualifying condition and a conclusion that the order is just. Where a defendant’s counterclaim substantially…
7 Oct 2022
[2022] EAT 155 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
A qualifying settlement agreement under section 147 of the Equality Act 2010 must relate to an actual complaint, or to circumstances in which the grounds for a…
2
4 May 2021
[2021] EWCA Civ 625 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A court should not permit service outside the jurisdiction where a valid arbitration agreement binds the relevant parties and covers the dispute. Broad…
4
1 Mar 2021
[2021] EWCA Civ 264 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For the tort gateway governing service outside the jurisdiction, the court asks in a common-sense way whether the alleged damage resulted from substantial and…
2
10 Apr 2018
[2018] EWHC 751 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
A contract may be formed during performance even where the parties’ exchanges cannot be analysed precisely as offer and acceptance. The court must identify…
25 Oct 2017
[2017] UKSC 66 · Supreme Court
A planning obligation under section 75 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 need not relate to a particular permitted development. It must…
15

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