Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Capsticks acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 19 Apr 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 472 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A public consultation must be fair and permit an effective, informed response. Yet consultation is inherently capable of correcting provisional errors. A court…
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35 |
| 27 Feb 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 185 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An Employment Tribunal must determine claims which objectively emerge from the parties’ statements of case and fall within its jurisdiction. A list of issues…
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27 |
| 28 Mar 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 265 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Article 1 of the First Protocol protects existing and vested assets. It does not protect a professional’s unmarketable personal capacity to earn future income.…
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26 |
| 17 Dec 2004 |
[2004] EWHC 2931 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Simple negligence in hospital treatment which causes death does not, without more, breach the state’s substantive obligation to protect life under article 2 of…
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18 |
| 18 Dec 2013 |
[2013] UKSC 80 · Supreme Court
An NHS employer must follow disciplinary procedures which have contractual effect. A case manager may assess evidence gathered by the case investigator and…
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18 |
| 5 Jul 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 1670 (QB) · High Court: Queen's Bench Division
An employer exercising a contractual power to classify disciplinary allegations must act honestly, in good faith and rationally. A classification which no…
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17 |
| 23 May 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 401 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In an automatic unfair-dismissal claim under section 103A, the tribunal must identify the facts or beliefs that caused the dismissal, but must determine…
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14 |
| 28 Sep 2016 |
[2016] EWHC 2338 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A ministerial decision must be construed objectively, by its language and proper context. A public authority’s policy or decision must be sufficiently clear to…
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14 |
| 21 Jul 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 1824 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
On an application to lift an automatic procurement suspension, the court applies the American Cyanamid Co v Ethicon Limited [1975] AC 396 approach. Once there…
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11 |
| 22 Mar 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 330 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Direct age discrimination is justified where it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. An employer cannot justify discriminatory treatment…
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11 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 28 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EAT 147 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
The EAT will generally not entertain an argument that was not advanced before the Employment Tribunal. It may permit a new point only in exceptional…
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| 24 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 946 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A tenancy clause providing that any legal notice or other communication arising from the agreement is validly served at the premises can give an address for…
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| 18 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1519 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Where a public body exercises contractual powers under a standard-form public service contract, its discretion may be constrained by express duties of…
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| 29 May 2026 |
[2026] EAT 77 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
For direct discrimination based on a manifestation of belief, the conduct must be intimately linked to the protected belief. A normative belief about how…
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| 15 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1116 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
An appeal under section 29 of the Dentists Act 1984 is by way of rehearing, but the appellate court must give the lower tribunal the degree of respect…
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| 11 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1079 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
On an application for mandatory interim relief requiring an employer to restore a clinician to practice, the court must have a high degree of assurance that…
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| 24 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 961 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Meaning in defamation is determined objectively by the natural and ordinary meaning conveyed by the words read as a whole to the hypothetical ordinary…
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| 25 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 723 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
Injunctions restraining an employment disciplinary process are exceptional. The court should intervene for a contractual breach or procedural unfairness only…
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| 10 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 517 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A constitutive residence scheme under Article 18.1 of the Withdrawal Agreement requires both qualifying residence and a successful application. Residence…
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| 29 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EAT 23 · Employment Appeal Tribunal
Rule 76 of the Employment Tribunal Rules 2013 imposes a two-stage process. The tribunal must first decide whether a threshold in rule 76(1) is met. It must…
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| 21 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 21 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For TUPE, economic activity has the same meaning as in EU competition law because both regimes regulate aspects of the single market. It means offering goods…
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| 13 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 25 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
An appeal from a specialist disciplinary tribunal is a review, not a rehearing. The reviewing court engages with the merits but gives appropriate respect to…
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Earlier names
These figures include judgments naming firms that have since merged into, or been renamed as, Capsticks: Whiteheads.
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Capsticks 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 Capsticks. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.